Acheteur Senior (H/F) / Senior Procurement Buyer (H/F)

Senior Buyer / Procurement Specialist – Manufacturing Mr. Full-Time | Fully Onsite | Monday–Friday Build Broader Procurement Experience in a Hands-On Manufacturing Environment Steam, a manufacturing business within the American Bath Group organization, is seeking a Senior Buyer / Procurement Specialist to join its Long Island City operation. This position is designed for a procurement professional
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who already has direct supplier experience, practical negotiation capability, and a working understanding of purchasing, inventory, and material planning.
It is not an entry-level training position, a people-management role, or a narrowly transactional purchasing job.
The Procurement
Buyer / Planner will manage an assigned portfolio of suppliers and materials while working closely with production, quality, engineering, warehouse, inventory, finance, and other internal partners. You will support the complete material lifecycle—from the initial purchasing requirement through delivery, inventory use, quality disposition, return, credit, or final resolution. As you develop product knowledge, supplier familiarity, and sound business judgment, you will be expected to take increasing ownership of routine procurement decisions and demonstrate readiness for broader responsibility.
Manage an assigned portfolio of materials and suppliers. Create and maintain accurate purchase orders, quantities, pricing, delivery dates, acknowledgements, and supporting documentation. Solicit supplier quotations and compare pricing, lead times, terms, and other commercial considerations.
Negotiate routine pricing, delivery, lead-time, minimum-order-quantity, expedite, and supplier-recovery matters. Interpret demand, inventory levels, open purchase orders, supplier commitments, lead times, and production priorities. Identify material shortages, late deliveries, changing requirements, and supplier risks before they disrupt production.
Communicate directly with suppliers regarding order status, commitments, delivery concerns, pricing discrepancies, and issue resolution. Coordinate returns, rework, replacement materials, credits, supplier corrective actions, and return material authorizations. Participate directly in cycle counts and inventory-discrepancy resolution.
Work with production, quality, engineering, receiving, and warehouse employees to investigate material and supplier issues. Document cost savings, cost avoidance, improved terms, alternate-source opportunities, and supplier-performance improvements. Escalate higher-risk or nonstandard issues with a clear analysis and recommended course of action.
Steam’s products, materials, suppliers, ERP/MRP processes, purchasing routines, inventory practices, cycle-count procedures, quality processes, and internal operating workflows. As you gain experience in the operation, you will independently manage routine supplier communication, purchase-order activity, material shortages, changing production requirements, inventory discrepancies, returns, credits, and supplier recovery matters. By the end of your first year, you should be operating with substantial independence across your assigned portfolio while appropriately escalating higher-risk decisions.
Personal responsibility for RFQs, quotation comparisons, or routine negotiations.
Experience negotiating or resolving pricing, delivery, lead-time, minimum-order-quantity, expedite, terms, or supplier-recovery matters. An understanding of how demand, inventory, lead times, open purchase orders, and supplier commitments influence purchasing decisions. Ownership of supplier or material issues from identification through follow-up and closure.
The judgment to recognize when higher-risk matters require escalation. The ability to summarize an issue, complete the necessary analysis, and recommend a course of action. Willingness to participate in hands-on inventory, RMA, quality, warehouse, and production-support activities.
Approximately three to five years of relevant b

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