Category Buyer - Cowling - Full-time
BrunswickFond du Lac, WI
Full time
JR-051623
• *_Are you ready for what’s next?_**
_Come explore opportunities within Brunswick, a global marine leader (https://youtube.com/watch?v=ksuQ6B2j\_mA) committed to challenging conventions and innovating next-generation technologies that transform experiences on the water and beyond. Brunswick believes “Next Never Rests™,” and we offer a variety of exciting car
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eers and growth opportunities within united teams defining the future of marine recreation._
• *Location:** Fond du Lac, WI
• *Workplace Category:** Hybrid; 3+ days in office per week
• *Travel Required:** 20%
• *Direct Reports:** Yes
• *Pay Range:** $73,600 – $106,200
• *Visa Sponsorship:** _Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future._
• *Relocation:** Yes
• *Innovation is the heart of Brunswick. See how your contributions will help transform vision into reality**
The **Category Buyer** is a key individual contributor in Mercury’s global direct material procurement organization, focused on highly engineered and complex cowl systems. Reporting to the Category Manager, the Category Buyer helps develop and execute sourcing and supplier management strategies to continuously improve cost competitiveness, quality, delivery, and innovation to support Mercury’s global manufacturing operations and product development efforts.
• *At Brunswick, we have passion for our work and a distinct ability to deliver.**
Essential Functions:
• *Supplier Management**
Proactively build and maintain constructive business relationships with suppliers and internal customers to understand needs and facilitate collaboration across all stakeholders to deliver expected results. Demonstrated behaviors should include the ability to effectively:
+ Proactively support the Category Team in strategy development, execution, and communication while providing supplier and market intelligence to support decision making.
+ Visit current and potential suppliers to evaluate capabilities, assess risk, develop category expertise, and maintain visibility to supplier operations, capacity, industries, and markets
+ Conduct in-person business reviews with suppliers to drive accountability and continuous improvement in quality, delivery, cost, and capacity performance.
+ Facilitate Requests for Quote, analyze quotations, and build supplier selection recommendations based on total landed cost, capabilities, risk, capacity, and business requirements.
+ For new or changing component designs, obtain supplier quotations and feasibility assessments to ensure manufacturability, cost, timing, and capacity requirements are fully understood prior to sourcing decisions.
+ Execute purchase orders, requisitions, and appropriation requests for the purchasing of tooling, components, and services as required
+ Identify supplier risks and develop mitigation plans to support business continuity and uninterrupted supply.
+ Drive supplier performance improvement activities utilizing Mercury's Supplier Progress Review process and related continuous improvement tools.
+ Monitor supplier capacity and readiness to support current and future production requirements.
• *Project Management**
Manage projects in a collaborative, thorough, and detail-oriented manner to ensure quality, cost, and timing objectives are achieved. Demonstrated behaviors should include the ability to effectively:
+ Utilize effective project management tools to ensure timely completion of sourcing, supplier development, and new product launch activities.
+ Manage supplier-driven and Mercury-driven changes through established change management processes.
+ Develop, align, monitor, and communicate project schedules with suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage risk and ensure successful execution.
+ Coordinate supplier readiness activities supporting new product launches, engineering changes, and production transitions.
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