**Position Summary**:
As a Buyer, you be working with procurement, supply planning and supplier management to help achieve individual and team KPI's.
You'll also monitor and manage individual KPI performance, submit improvement recommendations to the procurement manager and execute the action plans, as well as communicate supplier performance, submit improvement recommendations to the procurement manager and execute the action plans.
**Responsibilities and Essential Functions**:
- Procures supplies, materials, services, and equipment for delivery at specified time
- Places and updates purchase orders for current line of products and ensures timely delivery to eliminate backorders and out of stock items
- Plans, schedules, and monitors the movement of materials through the fulfillment cycle.
- Advises team of any actual or potential material shortages
- Ensures that suppliers have complete product information to meet product quality standards and deliveries for production
- Monitors performance of the buyer KPIs and recommends/executes improvement actions
- Tracks individual complete and on-time delivery (COT) performance, assigns reason codes for order fulfillment failures, recommends and drives actions to improve future performance for his/her commodities
- Tracks and reports suppliers' service performance on supplier OTD, lead time, flexibility, capacity, safety stock, and shipping to complete and deliver quarterly supplier scorecards
- Monitors internal min/max levels and vendor safety stock to maximize inventory turns while ensuring material availability
- Tracks and resolves material review board (MRB) parts and resolves supplier non-conformances and cost recovery
- Conducts monthly supplier reviews of long-term component levels forecasts, capacity commitments, and mitigations to ensure demand-supply balance
- Responsible for reviewing and communicating the service section of the supplier scorecards
- Owns and manages procurement KPIs related to his or her assigned accounts/vendors
- Manages inventory planning and timing of engineering change orders (ECOs)
- Supports PPV and savings objectives by executing supplier and part transition tasks to achieve more favorable material costs
- Reviews and manage daily exceptions of master data, supply shortages, backorders, late shipments/receipts, and excess inventory for own parts
**Qualifications, Skills and Education**
**_ Required Qualifications:_**
- 3+ year's of procurement experience.
- Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent experience.
**_ Preferred Qualifications:_**
- Masters Degree preferred.
- CPM, CPSM, APICS certifications preferred.
- Experience with supplier kanban, supplier safety stock programs, lead time reductions and vendor owned inventory (VOI) or vendor managed inventory (VMI) processes.
- Experience in managing a global supply chain, preferably involving Asia and/or Mexico, and incorporating just in time (JIT) principles for planning and manufacturing.
- Mandarin or Spanish language skills a plus.
**About Us**:
We are the fastest-growing office furniture and e-commerce company in the industry!
We're an entrepreneurial company offering infinite possibilities.
Being a one-stop-shop means our customers can have everything they need to create exactly what they want.
Our world-class customer service, fastest shipping, biggest têxtile program, and award-winning designs have made us the industry leader for over 25 years.
Our SitOnIt Seating brand was created to give our customers what they want, how they want it, when they want it.
Today, we're constantly re imagining how space, têxtile, and design can help everyone—from medical offices to Fortune 500 companies to home offices across North America—get more out of their day.
People are at the core of our business, and on our team, everyone makes an impact.
We absolutely owe our success to our incredible group of talented employees who bring equal parts skill, passion, drive - and of course, fun - to the table each and every day.
We have created a workplace that is inclusive and diverse - where everyone can be their authentic self, and where that authenticity is celebrated.
By creating an environment where people from every background can thrive, becomes a better and more successful company.
We're proud to be a company that gives back to the very communities that our team members live and work in.
Our giving ethos focuses on three buckets of impact: sustainability, community outreach and transparent operations.
From donating lobby seating to medical clinics in low-income neighborhoods—to our yearly giving week and toy drive for Toys for Tots - we believe collaboration, kindness and authenticity are essential to our humanity.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our company adheres to the equal employment opportunity guidelines set forth by federal, state and local laws.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration fo