Remote Night Shift Senior Buyer

Job Responsibilities

• Plans for and procures materials necessary to meet manufacturing build requirements for one or several product lines with a US supplier
• Reviews forecasted requirements and purchases materials in accordance with that forecast.
• Ensures materials are available to meet manufacturing build requirements. Matches material requirements and inventory turnover so as not to hold too high a percentage of inventory at any time.
• Qualifies new suppliers through surveys and site visits.
• Helps establish new supplier accounts (IDM) with the finance department.
• Works with internal customers to address, return and receive credit for defective materials.
• Works with A/P to investigate and resolve issues with the payment of supplier invoices.
• Plans and schedules timely material requirements for customer forecasts. Reviews manufacturing production goals and plans accordingly.
• Analyze inputs (e.g., capacity, board cycle times, urgency of request, material availability, etc.) to help determine the schedule. Analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of customer scheduling. Pushes or cancels orders per production plans.
• Ensures quality and integrity of information used to generate materials requirements plan.
• Revises plans as required based on analysis of actuals versus plan.
• PO clean up and confirmations as required for US supplier
• Resolve critical clear to build shortages of the US supplier
• Directly contact suppliers as needed.
• Weekly clear to build review with day shift prime
• Bill of Material Issues highlighted back to EC team for scrub and corrections.
• Work with site and global logistics to reduce freight costs where possible.
• Engineering change order feedback to ECO Coordinator for cut-ins or revision changes
• Cash in Advance payment requests.
• Receiving referrals and invoice referrals, and resolving them in a timely manner.
• Update CFT on Commodity Supply market conditions that potentially affect the material supply.
• Special customer audits, projects, and issues related to purchasing as needed.
• Work closely and update the day shift prime in a timely manner with the US supplier status and schedule
• To coordinate with day shift prime, MP, and PM on task assignment

Job Requirements

• Candidate must possess at least Diploma, Advanced/Higher/Graduate Diploma, Bachelor's Degree in Business Studies / Administration / Management, Economics, Commerce, or equivalent related field.
• Min 5-10 years’ experience in the related department.
• Candidates able to work in the night time (2300-0830), night shift
• Knowledge of the manufacturing environment, the types of materials being purchased by departments, and the engineering change process is preferred.
• Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques, and manufacturing control systems
• Knowledge of procurement processes, inventory management, and supplier management
• Knowledge of basic computer applications such as WORD, Excel, PowerPoint, and multiple business applications.
• Ability to plan strategically for the coordinated build and delivery of one or several products.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy, and working under tight time deadlines.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Relevant experience with ERP / MR,P especially in SA,P will be an added advantage