Senior Buyer - Legrand, North America : Job Details

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Buyer to join the Data Center Power & Control Division in Farmingdale, NY. Responsible for the purchase inventory and non-inventory related requirements. Provides departmental support in achieving expediting requirements and ensures the quality, competitive pricing, and timely delivery of all procured items.

What Will You Do?

• Develops and maintains strong value-added relationships with suppliers. Monitors supplier capacities for assigned commodities to ensure no unexpected capacity constraints occur. Conducts frequent meetings with critical suppliers to ensure that open issues are adequately resolved, and visits supplier sites as necessary to maintain the business relationship.
• Performs suppliers' assessments for new suppliers, ensures supplier scorecards are documented and reviewed with key suppliers regularly, and drives supplier corrective actions.
• Analyzes and manages data from Planning, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Management to support the manufacturing plan. Reviews ERP messages on assigned commodities and processes and maintains purchase orders. Coordinates deliveries based on vendor lead times and specific manufacturing objectives.
• Reviews changes in requirements and adjusts schedules as necessary to meet business objectives. Also, notify the appropriate departments of any significant delays in supply.
• Processes all price changes according to policy.
• Active team member for new products for assigned commodities.
• Ability to lead projects including outsourcing, ins-sourcing, new sourcing, or alternative sourcing for new or existing supply.
• Coordinates returns to suppliers for non-conforming goods and materials as required.
• Works with accounting to resolve invoice discrepancies.
• Participates in physical inventory and cycle count programs if needed.
• Maintains order policies, risk mitigation, and other commodity programs as defined.
• Maintains good housekeeping practices and performs safely and effectively so as not to inflict injury to self or others.
• Update and maintain manufacturing/purchasing data within the ERP system (SAP) and assist in the implementation of new planning systems as required.
• Performs any other duties required by the Purchasing Manager to ensure the realization of departmental and corporate goals.

Required Skills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• 3-5 years of purchasing experience is required.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment with knowledge of ERP systems required, SAP preferred.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Intermediate product, production process and commodity knowledge for the responsible supply segment is required.
• Strong communication and analytical skills are required.
• Organizational and exceptional negotiating skills are required.
• Must be proficient in computer-based spreadsheet and word processing systems, such as Excel, Word, and Access.
• Must be extremely detail oriented and be willing to adapt to changing responsibilities as required to achieve departmental and corporate goals.
• Able to travel less than 10 percent of the time domestically to vendor visits

Salary: $70,000 - $80,000 base plus bonus

Benefits: LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. LNCA is an employee-centered, growing company with tremendous opportunity