Buyer (PRP25401)

Job # PRP25401

Job Title Buyer

Office Location Brookshire, TX

Business Function/Department Logistics & Procurement/Sourcing

Sales Territory, if applicable N/A

General Role Description

Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service and to meet commercial requirements

Role Accountabilities

-    Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved

-    Research new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company’s quality system

-    Identify and recommend new suppliers to develop globally to support business unit needs and lower costs

-    Negotiate with assigned suppliers to achieve lower material costs and on time delivery

-    Gather data to manage performance evaluation of assigned product’s supplier and submit to manager

-    Gather data to negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements with suppliers, as requested

-    Recommend risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to Sourcing Manager to present to business units

-    Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and prepare for supplier recovery activities

-    Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer’s report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority

-    Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management

-    Notify expeditors of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP

-    Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products   

-    Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions

-    Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers

-    Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department

-    Notify finance department of new “ship-to” locations of suppliers

-    Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist

-    Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner

-    Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management

-    Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company

General Employee Accountabilities

-    Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-    Give manager best advice

-    Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-    Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-    Exemplify Company Core Values:  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-    Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

-    Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Minimum Qualifications

-   Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience

-   2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment

-   1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers

-   Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

-   Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

-   Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

-   Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and ERP

-   Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-   1 year of experience negotiating agreements

-   Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment 

-   Advanced Excel skills

-   Proficiency in Oracle

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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