Buyer - Radiant Systems : Job Details

Education: Bachelor's Mandate

• High level, looking for someone with buying experience, organized, and can multitask.
• Buyer responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Managing Parker procurement of materials and services to support quality, delivery and cost requirements. Requires application of basic purchasing principles, theories and concepts.
• Ensuring timely acquisitions of product or service from known sources of supply.
• Resolving issues in the areas of requisition accuracy and completeness, on-time delivery and supplier payment.
• This position reports directly to the Supply Chain Manager.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Purchases parts, equipment, and materials by preparing request for quotations and submitting purchase orders with approved suppliers.
• Issues purchase orders and agreements that accurately reflect price, schedule, terms, and conditions as negotiated with suppliers.
• Plans, schedules and manages production capacity load to ensure maximum on-time delivery.
• Responsible for maintenance and accuracy of open purchase orders, quotes, work orders and part master data.
• Maintains accurate lead times for assigned commodities.
• Monitors and evaluates production execution to plan and supplier performance.
• Advises appropriate personnel of production issues or impending supplier failure to fulfill contractual agreements that may delay production or delivery.
• Resolves shipment quality discrepancies by mediating supplier/manufacturing issues.
• Facilitates the resolution of issues by arranging and participating in conferences between suppliers and company personnel.
• Negotiates and settles damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over-shipments, cancellations and engineering changes with suppliers.
• Provides parts, equipment, and materials information by answering questions and requests.
• Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Maintains a variety of schedules, records, and reports pertaining to the tracking of materials through the production cycle and availability of production resources.
• Assists in executing requisite system transactions needed to support the receipt, storage and transferring of material.
• Responsible for inventory levels.
• Generates tracking reports and performs data entry as required.
• Participates in continuous improvement activities and provides suggestions for cost reduction and efficiency improvements.
• Participates in developing alternate sources of supply by identifying and researching prospective suppliers.
• Participates in supplier site visits and evaluates them as to production capability, performance, delivery, and other key business criteria. May complete supplier certification as part of a technical and/or quality team.
• Complies with federal, state, and aerospace industry regulations; ensures adherence to requirements and advises management on needed actions. Complies with Government/Commercial Practices Manual (GPM/CPM) policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential functions of the job typically acquired through six or more years of related experience. In addition, has completed a bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a related field and has passed the majority (3 or more) of the CPIM national certification exams; OR is CPIM certified.
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing resources planning theories, principles, and industry practices.
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing resource planning systems, business application software, and interface operations.
• Ability to effectively assess and implement continuous improvement methods (e.g. pull systems, process mapping, JIT).
• Knowledge of legal, regulatory, and internal policy requirements related to production control.
• Ability to work on a variety of problems of diverse scope and complexity where analysis and evaluation of various outcomes require tradeoffs.
• Ability to solve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways and evaluate alternative solutions that may require coordination across multiple teams.
• Ability to establish goals and objectives to complete projects.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret policies and recommend changes to procedures.
• Ability to effectively communicate and present information to team members, team leaders, and top management.
• Ability to respond to significant inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to effectively demonstrate team member competencies and participate in goal setting, performance feedback, and self-development activities.