Planner Buyer

**What will you do?**

As a buyer, you will be responsible for purchasing goods, materials, and follow up services with external suppliers to ensure that the company's operational needs are met working closely with Planning, logistic, quality, engineering, and manufacturing teams to ensure continuity of supply.

You will be responsible to negotiate long-term and short-term transactions with Vendor and Subcontractors. The position is likely to suit a dynamic team player with a 'can do' attitude. Working very close with warehouse leaders, to manage inventory levels of indirect materials and develop the best restocking strategy.

**How will you do it?**
- Handle local and US suppliers for external services for Metal treatments, placing orders, expediting, follow up in Open orders.
- Purchase goods, materials or services aligned with demand, quality and delivery targets to meet our sales projections
- Negotiate & review inventory opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures during supplier negotiations and contracts
- Explore alternate sources for goods and materials
- Assist to daily Gemba Walks on the plant to know the necessities of the production department.
- Contact the supplier to expedite, following with quality, delivery, or invoices issue
- Handle meetings with critical suppliers, making LOB and files amount affectations.
- Working with weekly shortage report to avoid shortages

**What are we looking for?**
- Bachelor's Degree, 1 year or more years of experience in purchasing at least
- Bilingual (English)
- Leadership skills
- Teamwork
- Service attitude is very important