Buyer

Company Overview
Since 1969, Americo Manufacturing Company, Inc. has made floor care products in the USA, including products made with recycled PET fiber and natural content. The company is committed to sustainability and green cleaning.
Job Overview
The Buyer is responsible for ensuring assigned materials are available when needed, in the correct quantity, from approved suppliers, at the appro
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priate total cost, and with required quality and documentation. This role connects demand, inventory, supplier commitments, purchase orders, receiving, quality, finance, and production readiness. The Buyer works from the ERP system of record, acts on valid planning signals, resolves supply exceptions, communicates risk early, and helps correct recurring supplier, process, and master-data issues.
Responsibilities
• Review MRP signals, demand, inventory, open supply, lead times, and order constraints to determine required purchasing actions.
• Create and maintain accurate purchase orders, including supplier, item, quantity, price, dates, site, warehouse, terms, and quality requirements.
• Obtain supplier acknowledgements, maintain current promise dates, and follow up on late, short, damaged, incorrect, or unconfirmed deliveries.
• Expedite, defer, change, or cancel supply based on validated demand, supplier capability, cost, and approval requirements.
• Identify and communicate material risks early, providing clear business impact, options, ownership, and required decisions.
• Coordinate inbound readiness and issue resolution with production, planning, receiving, quality, logistics, finance, and suppliers.
• Monitor inventory health and recommend actions to prevent shortages, excess, obsolete stock, and unnecessary purchases.
• Investigate purchase price variance, premium freight, supplier performance, and recurring supply exceptions; drive corrective action.
• Identify master-data issues affecting planning or purchasing, submit evidence-based corrections, and verify resolution.
• Maintain the ERP as the system of record, document exceptions, and close actions through completion.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, operations, finance, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Two years of purchasing, materials planning, supply chain, manufacturing, or related experience.
• Working knowledge of purchase-order management, supplier follow-up, inventory control, material requirements planning, and manufacturing operations.
• Experience using an ERP system to manage purchase orders, planning signals, supplier commitments, inventory status, and transaction history.
• Ability to analyze demand, supply, lead times, order constraints, inventory availability, and cost impacts to make timely decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present risks, options, and decisions clearly.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and standard Microsoft 365 applications.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in a process or discrete manufacturing environment.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management or a comparable ERP platform.
• Familiarity with supplier scorecards, purchase price variance, inventory turns, days of supply, excess and obsolete inventory, and corrective-action processes.
• APICS/ASCM, ISM, or related supply chain or purchasing certification.
• Experience working with quality documentation, Certificates of Analysis, lot-controlled materials, or regulated receiving requirements.
Core Competencies
• Ownership: Maintains accurate records, follows issues through closure, and does not allow unresolved risks to remain informal.
• Analytical judgment: Validates system recommendations and investigates unusual signals before acting.
• Urgency with discipline: Responds quickly to material risk without bypassing controls or creating avoidable cost.
• Communication: Provides concise, decision-ready updates to suppli

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