Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer – Industrial Manufacturing

Position Summary

The Senior Buyer is responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and managing suppliers to ensure the timely and cost-effective procurement of materials, components, and services essential to manufacturing operations.

This role plays a strategic part in maintaining supply continuity, optimizing costs, improving supplier performance, and supporting production schedules while ensuring quality and compliance with company standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Review requisitions and execute planned orders for materials.
• Build rapport and hold suppliers accountable to maintain strong and dependable relationships focused on service, quality and cost 
• Identify alternative suppliers and negotiate most favorable total cost of ownership
• Responsible for department’s KPI’s including PPV, DIO, DPO and Cost Savings Funnels
• Lead the SIOP process with cross functional teams to ensure demand planning accuracy
• Monitor raw material and finished good shortages and expedite as necessary.
• Plan, process, and maintain purchase orders to meet business requirements.
• Follow up on open orders and ensure on time delivery.
• Record, track and resolve supplier non-conformances.
• Process returns for non-conforming materials and expedites replacements as necessary.
• Negotiate with suppliers to improve price, lead time and service expectations to improve cash conversion cycles.
• Set up part numbers for purchased items as needed, including pricing, costing, lead time, supplier and MRP planning information. (Not sure if this is accurate, but something regarding your ERP system here would work)
• Verify and approve invoices. Resolve any invoice discrepancies with the accounts payable team.
• Investigate and provide accurate responses to inquiries.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business, Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
• 5+ years of purchasing or procurement experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience of negotiating contracts and managing suppliers.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong negotiation and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and materials.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• High level of organization and attention to detail.
• Proficient in ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Excel.

Preferred

• Experience with global sourcing.
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma principles.
• CPSM, CSCP, or similar certification.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory, or environmental demands may be referenced to communicate the way this position traditionally is performed. Whenever it is necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Filtration Group will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship. 

Filtration Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all team members, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetics, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.  We believe the work we do and the mission we spread is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.  

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.   

The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates.  Over 80 percent of the Company’s revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer’s products or processes.  With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.

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