Senior Buyer Planner

Pay Range: $34.36hr - $39.36hr

Job Overview:

This position includes purchasing responsibilities for MRO and inventory, including the planning/scheduling of raw materials, hardware, and consumables for inventory/campaign as required by the production schedule. In addition, the successful candidate will be responsible for strategic sourcing projects, able to work with little direct supervision, and function in a leadership capacity by providing guidance to other employees.

Essential Functions:

• Purchase a wide variety of items and services, verify authorizations, and account numbers.
• Process associated paperwork and expedite as necessary.
• Ensure best price, quality, and delivery for all MRO purchases.
• Maintain compliance with Approved Supplier List in accordance with internal procedures.
• Utilize MRP system to generate purchase orders for all applicable inventory items and complete all purchasing functions, including expediting, returns to vendor, obtaining quotes, and supplier sourcing.
• Create and apply standard contract templates.
• Develop and maintain good supplier relations.
• Plan, schedule, track, and expedite materials through system.
• Maintain minimum stock levels for continuous operation by generating reorder lists.
• Understand and use bills of materials, job numbers, and routing stages used for media/buffer solutions production and component kits for material availability.
• Maintain master materials plan in accordance with production schedule for manufacturing campaigns.
• Interface with Production, Quality Control, and Facilities to plan material usage.
• Ensure a smooth and effective flow of information to the Warehouse in order to maintain proper levels of inventory.
• Provide Materials Orientation to new employees.
• Oversee, direct, and mentor more junior purchasing employees.
• Drive Strategic Sourcing projects and initiatives to improve the Purchasing function in terms of cost, quality, and efficiency.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Perform all job duties and responsibilities in a compliant and ethical manner and in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and industry codes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training and experience.
• 5+ years of experience in materials (i.e. purchasing, planning, inventory, and production control).
• Certified Purchasing Manager or APICS Certification preferred.
• Experience with fundamental cost/value analysis.
• Experience with SAP preferred.
• Experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of cGMPs, ISO, and FDA requirements is a plus.
• Ability to develop and manage action plans to achieve targets.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills as well as strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to effectively interface with suppliers and knowledge of computerized inventory and MRP systems, word processing, and spreadsheet/database software required.

Physical Requirements(Due to nature of job, The candidate must have):

• Ability to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, and walk.
• Ability to pull, lift, finger, and grasp.
• Ability to speak, listen, and understand verbal and written communication.
• Ability to perform repetitive motion including substantial movement of wrists, hands, and or fingers.
• Ability to work involving sitting most of the time with walking and standing required occasionally.
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds occasionally and 10 pounds frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Ability to maintain visual acuity to perform close activities such as reading, writing, analyzing, and determining the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of work assigned.
• Ability to work in a variety of physical conditions, including narrow aisles and temperature changes.