Buyer/Planner II

ITW (Illinois Tool Works Inc.) is a Fortune 200 company and is one of the world's leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, automotive components, consumables, and related service businesses. ITW businesses serve local customers and markets around the globe, with operations in 55 countries and an employee base of more than 46,000 women and men who adhere to the highest ethical standards. These talented individuals, many of whom have specialized engineering or scientific expertise, contribute to our global leadership in innovation. We are proud of our broad portfolio of more than 17,000 granted and pending patents.

ITW Residential and Renovation Construction provides Industry leading, premium branded, cordless nailing systems and fastening solutions, that deliver superior productivity and reliability to meet the needs of professional remodelers and residential framers, with a widely available product portfolio at their preferred retail or dealer outlets The 80 focus for the division is aggressive market growth while sustaining profitability.

ITW offers its employees a path for advancement, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help employees care for themselves, their families, and their futures.

The Buyer/Planner II, will work in a team environment to execute the short and long-range planning and buying activities to achieve individual, team and divisional goals and objectives. Using data, you will participate in the development of product line outlooks that will enable the division to meet fulfillment and inventory objectives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and monitor demand outlooks for approximately $30 million dollars in spend across key product categories.

• Participate in meetings with sales and marketing to ensure outlook data alignment and divisional growth objectives are on track.

• Weekly review of horizontal plans and targets to determine required planning actions for purchased finished goods and components, from both domestic and offshore suppliers.

• Identify supply risks, discuss options to mitigate with manager and provide summarized weekly reports to management.

• Issue weekly purchase orders, monitor and ensure supplier delivery schedules are executed and communicated to the division.

• Collaborate with Strategic Sourcing partners to execute primary supplier strategies and ensure cost actions are implemented.

• Collaborate with project teams to execute new product development timelines to meet divisional and customer launch timing.

• Drive efforts to achieve divisional metrics for Safety, Fill Rates, Margins and Inventory Levels.

• Lead supplier management communication using supplier scorecard metrics and divisional expectations.

• Learn and use the ITW Toolbox in decision making and team projects.

• Embrace our ITW leadership competencies and core values in everything you do.

• Other duties as assigned.