Senior Supply Chain Planner/Buyer
AltimateMedicalBrief Description At AltimateMedical Holdings, Inc. (AMHI), we improve quality of life for the individuals and clinicians who rely on our products every day. AltimateMedical designs and manufactures differentiated medical equipment across multiple sectors of the healthcare industry. Over the years, we have expanded our portfolio through both innovation and strategic growth, including the addition of respected healthcare brands through MedicalPositioning, ActiveAid, Therafin, and Leggero. As a Granite Partners company, we believe in sharing success and investing in our people. We offer meaningful career growth opportunities, a collaborative and values-driven culture, and the chance to make a direct impact on the lives of those who depend on our products every day. Our innovative, dynamic, and collaborative culture drives us to develop and deliver high-quality solutions that make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Job Summary The Senior Supply Chain Planner and Buyer is a senior level individual contributor responsible for maintaining material availability while balancing customer service, quality, inventory investment, cost, and supply risk. The position translates demand into actionable supply plans, executes purchasing activities, manages inventory performance, and develops productive supplier relationships. This role works closely with Sales, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Warehouse, and other supply chain partners to identify constraints, resolve shortages, and improve the accuracy and reliability of planning and procurement processes. This is a role for someone who wants to use their analytical and interactive skills in order to have a direct impact on an organization’s supply chain. Essential Functions Purchasing Manage the end-to-end purchasing cycle for assigned commodities, components, and suppliers, including requisition review, purchase order placement, order confirmation, receipt follow-up, and issue resolution. Convert material requirements and approved requests into purchase orders using ERP information, production priorities, supplier lead times, order quantities, pricing, and inventory targets. Monitor open purchase orders and supplier commitments. Expedite, defer, reschedule, or cancel orders as business needs change, and communicate material risks to affected teams. Request and evaluate supplier quotations, compare total cost and commercial terms, negotiate within delegated authority, and recommend sourcing decisions to the Director of Procurement. Maintain accurate purchasing data, including pricing, lead times, order quantities, supplier information, acknowledgments, and purchase order records. Resolve receiving, invoice, and quantity discrepancies with internal teams and suppliers. Inventory Management Identify inventory control issues and monitor compliance, ensure that warehouse activities are in full compliance with federal, regulatory safety, labor, worker’s compensation, and health/safety requirements. Establish and maintain planning parameters such as safety stock, reorder points, minimum and maximum levels, lead times, and order quantities for assigned materials. Analyze inventory levels and usage to reduce stockouts, excess inventory, obsolete material, and avoidable carrying cost while supporting production and customer requirements. Track and report inventory performance using measures such as service level, inventory turns, days of supply, excess and obsolete inventory, and material availability. Support cycle counts and physical inventories, investigate variances, identify root causes, and coordinate corrective actions with Warehouse, Operations, Finance, and Quality. Planning and Forecasting Develop and maintain demand forecasts using sales history, open orders, customer and market information, product plans, promotions, and input from Sales and Marketing. Facilitate cross-functional forecast reviews, document assumptions and risks, and reconcile differences to produce a pra…