**Senior Buyer**

Confluent Medical Technologies Fremont, CA, USA Posted 3 days ago Full time Medical Equipment Manufacturing **Confluent Medical Technologies**is dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: nitinol components, balloon expandable stents and balloon catheters, delivery systems, biomedical textiles, access kits, and guidewires. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

Confluent Medical Technologies is growing! Were looking for a**Senior Buyer**to join our team in Fremont California Team. You may be who we are looking for!

**As a uniquely qualified candidate, you will:**

This position will plan production and raw materials for assigned areas of responsibility to meet planned requirements in accordance with inventory stocking policies and procedures; while meeting business objectives of safety, quality, on time delivery, competitive customer lead times, profitability, and inventory. The Sr. Buyer will also support daily management activities to ensure commitments are achieved and ensure project management teams are supported.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:**

* Ability to utilize MRP/ ERP to its fullest extent to perform Procurement related activities for assigned areas of responsibility

* Maintain ERP part master data for assigned spend categories as well as understanding how master data drives material requirement planning (MRP)

* Maintain appropriate inventory levels to meet and exceed inventory targets and turns; as well as seek opportunities to reduce inventory through various techniques such as lot size optimization, off-the-shelf vs. MTO analysis, Kanban, etc.

* Full understanding of re-order points and safety stock formulas; as well as the impact on different ways of calculating.

* Ability to place purchase orders according to forecast and demand; as well as understanding of historical ordering trends

* Ability to proactively identify potential part shortages, work with vendors to prevent shortages, understand vendor capacity and constraints; as well as when to properly escalate potential part shortages.

* Perform purchase order acknowledgement, reconciliation of open orders with vendors, and provide forecast to vendors for future ordering.

* Creation of purchase orders to satisfy MRP demand in ERP and proper management of these purchase orders working with operations for on time delivery to stock / customers

* Creation of purchase orders to support non-inventory (spend) items as required

* Communicate gaps between purchase supply and demand.

* Monitor supplier performance and assist in root cause/corrective actions with suppliers to improve.

* Assist in mitigating issues between suppliers and production.

* Ability to manage Supplier Relationships (SRM) for large spend categories and leading quarterly business reviews with strategic suppliers.

* Prior purchasing experience leading negotiations on large inventory (direct) and non-inventory (indirect) purchasing spend categories.

* Work across sites to coordinate quarterly business reviews and supplier relationship management for common spend categories with other Confluent Medical Technologies sites.

* Prior experience leading purchasing continuous improvement projects for indirect (MRO) spend categories.

* Identify root cause of late purchase order lines and implement corrective action to ensure inventory fill rate targets are achieved and sustained.

* Evaluate slow moving items and work with appropriate groups to propose clean-up, re-work, obsolescence, changes to lot sizing, stock status etc.

* Communicate effectively both internally and externally at all levels.

**KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS:**

* Demonstrated experience within purchasing, and supplier performance management in a fast paced, regulated, precision engineering environment.

* Excellent attention to detail with a capacity to recognize problems and proactively resolve where possible, and escalate as necessary.

* Advanced Microsoft skills, particularly MS Excel and ability to download and manipulate data quickly and easily using advanced functions

* Strong numerical and analytical skills with a methodical and organized approach to work.

* Works well under pressure within a busy office environment with the ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks.

* Ability to apply LEAN concepts and good understanding of Pull systems.

* Expert knowledge of Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

* High energy, enthusiastic and confident individual with excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

* Sensitive to different international cultures and able to adapt style accordingly whilst ensuring targets are met and exceeded.

* Strong negotiation skills.

* A team player.

* Experience using a business ERP system in a manufacturing environment (SAP, Oracle ,JDE for example)

**EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE:**

* Bachelor degree strongly preferred

* 5-8 years of buyer experience within procurement

* APICS certification a plus or equivalent a plus

**Confluent Medical**offers very competitive compensation and benefits and is proud to have a distinguished reputation throughout the medical device industry around the world! We welcome eager and ambitious team players to apply! Theres no better time to join Confluent Medical!!

**Transforming Concepts into Reality**

Qualified candidates will be contacted. No phone, fax or email inquiries from potential applicants, external recruiters or other interested parties, please.

We regret that we are unable to sponsor employment visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.

**Confluent Medical is an equal opportunity employer.**