Buyer

Overview

Coordinate suppliers, manage purchases, ensure on-time quality material delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• supplier management
• root cause
• stock monitoring
• rfq process
• supplier onboarding
• pricing negotiation

Tasks

-Interact with internal teams and suppliers to ensure disposition of defective materials. -Participate in Inter-Department meetings with Engineering and Planning on project status and supplier updates. -Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others - Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. -Collaborate with internal teams, such as Engineering, Planning, Logistics and Quality on any Supplier involvement to ensure an uninterrupted supply of quality materials, information, and services. -Perform a root-cause analysis to correct Supplier performance and/or quality issues. -Proactively manage stock outs or at risk materials to prevent manufacturing shut down. -Be the primary point of contact between Carel and assigned Suppliers. -Monitor daily order confirmations and past due shipments and elevate any issues that will cause a stock out or manufacturing delay and provide daily updates to internal planners and manufacturing personnel as to delivery dates, delays, and/or process problems. -Identify opportunities for localization, additional supplier depth and costs savings. -Manage the Inter-Company and 3 rd party Supplier relationships by communicating forecast data, expectations and performance. -Be a member of a team that evaluates, approves and on boards new suppliers as well as audits existing suppliers. -Manage the RFQ process. -Negotiate pricing and supplier programs, such as stocking agreements, VMI, consignment, etc…to ensure materials are readily available to Carel and savings targets are met.

Requirements

• purchasing
• oracle
• excel
• associate degree
• 2+ years
• strategic analysis

What You Bring

-Purchasing Knowledge - Metal and Mechanical components is a plus. -Experience - and/or a minimum of two years' experience in purchasing or materials management. Experience with manufacturing processes. -Tactical and Strategic Analytical Skills - purchasing process, pricing and marketing trends, commodity index trends, market conditions. thinking strategically for lead-time reduction, cost reduction, and other supply chain initiatives -Teamwork/Collaboration - Working as part of a team for assigned suppliers and manufacturing categories. Steady, collaborative personality. -Language and Communication Skills - The ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to effectively present information in a one on one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization. Ability to communicate effectively with vendors and with other employees of the organization . Must be able to speak and read the English language, knowledge of Spanish preferred. -Education - minimum of a two-year Associate Degree in Business or Purchasing or equivalent experience; -Computer Knowledge - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. Must have a working knowledge of MRP (ORACLE Preferred), Excel, Word software programs

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About Carel

-Focuses on B2B solutions: programmable controllers, humidifiers, monitoring systems for commercial, industrial, and residential sites. -Typical installations include supermarkets, data centers, museums, chillers, heat pumps and rooftop units. -International expansion spans North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania through subsidiaries and distributors. -Notable acquisitions include HygroMatik, Enginia, Senva, Klingenburg, Eurotec and Kiona, broadening HVAC‑R and IoT offerings.

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