Buyer (PR25030)

Job # PR25030

Job TitleBuyer

Office Location Houston, TX

Business Function/Department Logistics & Procurement/Sourcing

Sales Territory, if applicableN/A

General Role Description

Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service and to meet commercial requirements

Role Accountabilities

- Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved

- Research new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company's quality system

- Identify and recommend new suppliers to develop globally to support business unit needs and lower costs

- Negotiate with assigned suppliers to achieve lower material costs and on time delivery

- Gather data to manage performance evaluation of assigned product's supplier and submit to manager

- Gather data to negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements with suppliers, as requested

- Recommend risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to Sourcing Manager to present to business units

- Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and prepare for supplier recovery activities

- Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer's report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority

- Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management

- Notify expeditors of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP

- Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products

- Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions

- Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers

- Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department

- Notify finance department of new "ship-to" locations of suppliers

- Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist

- Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner

- Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management

- Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company

General Employee Accountabilities

- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

- Give manager best advice

- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

- Recommend viable improvements proactively

- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience

- 2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment

- 1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers

- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and ERP

- Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

- 1 year of experience negotiating agreements

- Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment

- Advanced Excel skills

- Proficiency in Oracle

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website: https://www.tmeic.com/. To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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