Buyer Planner

The Buyer is responsible for procuring materials, supplies, and services, meeting established quality, cost, and delivery requirements and manages the operational flow of items including new product setup, material acquisition, inventory reconciliation, and affectation margin impairment.
**Specific functions**

Inventory Management
- Utilize system reports.
- Submit purchase orders for materials, establish priorities to meet customer orders, and resolve shipping or billing issues
- Proactively identify product availability issues and provide supply status and shipment tracking to internal partners
- Maintain accurate system planning parameters per established processes, including recommending process improvements to improve efficiencies

Product Analysis and Process Improvement Opportunities
- Optimize material costs through vendor analysis, and identify and implement cost savings initiatives surrounding product cost, transportation cost, and freight terms
- Analyze safety stocks, manage material inventory, support demand planning, and provide backup coverage for other purchasing functions.
Supplier Relationship Management
- Provide leadership in the preparation for and/or participation in supplier negotiations
- Execute supplier performance initiatives to improve vendor accountability
- Resolve customer service or product quality issues.
- Work with accounts payable to investigate and resolve vendor billing discrepancies

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $23,500.00 - $28,500.00 per month

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Buyer: 3 years (preferred)
- Fasteners / MRO: 2 years (preferred)
- SAP: 2 years (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)