Megger
Senior Buyer/Planner
Megger, Phoenixville, PA, United States
The Vacancy
Summary Statement:
The Senior Buyer/Planner is responsible for purchasing raw materials, components, and services to meet the production and customer requirements. This role evaluates and analyzes supplier quotes, negotiates prices, maintains relationships with vendors, and ensures orders are delivered on time.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Summary Statement:
The Senior Buyer/Planner is responsible for purchasing raw materials, components, and services to meet the production and customer requirements. This role evaluates and analyzes supplier quotes, negotiates prices, maintains relationships with vendors, and ensures orders are delivered on time.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Source, negotiate with, and select vendors that meet Megger requirements as defined in the "Megger Standard" Supplier Requirements.
- Utilizing MRP, open order reports, sales backlog and materials guidelines, plan direct materials purchases in support of continuous production, without unplanned stoppages, and advise management of any disruptions or large deviations to plan goals.
- Lead searches, interviews and audits related to identification of new and/or alternative supplier partners, driving improvements in quality, cost, lead time, and minimum order quantities.
- Establish, review, and execute contractual agreements for the purchase of direct materials, securing approval from cost center manager as required.
- Stay current with economic, industrial, and/or other trends that affect price, quality, and availability of products.
- Maintain accurate purchase and material records in SAP, update unit cost, MOQ, and lead times as necessary.
- Review all material requisitions and consult appropriate discipline department concerning irregularities against previous history and/or current business activity.
- Maintain vendor data and performance statistics in the Megger Valley Forge Vendor Database; include PDF copies of all vendor quotes, purchase orders, and confirmations and utilize to provide input to the QA vendor rating system.
- Monitor supplier performance in terms of quality, cost, on-time delivery and customer service.
- Ensure part approvals and revision control practices are adhered to within assigned commodities.
- Attend and participate in production planning, product development, value engineering and document Change Control meetings.
- Serve as department liaison to other disciplines/departments as assigned by supervision.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 10 + years purchasing experience within high mix, low volume manufacturing focusing on machined and fabricated parts and/or electronic components and subsystems.
- Basic knowledge of required manufacturing processes used to create production molds, dies and fixtures used in the manufacture of plastic injection, heat formed, sheet metal, die-cast, and compression mold parts
- Working knowledge of documentation standards and part approval practices required to ensure repetitive quality.
- Demonstrated expertise with vendor negotiations regarding price, lead time, and order quantity
- Expert knowledge of MRP and inventory analysis (familiarization with SAP a key differentiator)
- Planning experience necessary. CAPM and/or APICS certification helpful
- Expert knowledge of MS Office programs including Excel and PowerPoint
- Demonstrated track record building and retaining business partnerships with suppliers
- Expert problem-solving skill
- Bachelor's Degree preferred, equivalent closely applicable work experience may be a substitute
- Best practices and process advocate
- Ability to establish & maintain positive relationships with customers and vendors
- Work well with teams or in a team environment, with the ability to work independently.
- Strong ability to multi-task with an attention to detail