Buyer

Job Summary:

The buyer manages vendor negotiations, maintains accurate purchasing records, and ensures timely material availability through daily ERP processes. This role involves collaborating with suppliers and internal teams to optimize inventory, resolve quality issues, and support production needs.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Negotiates best vendor terms, pricing, and delivery based on specific budget and schedule requirements.
• Develops positive working relationships vendors to effectively address discrepancies with quantity, quality, and pricing.
• Proactively reviews order status.
• Prepares purchase orders and bid requests.
• Analyzes data to identify trends to guide future purchasing decisions.
• Predicts future sales trends by analyzing customer buying patterns and past performance.
• Run Material Requirements Planning (MRP) daily, review action messages, place orders and review supplier’s acknowledgements.
• Follow up on purchase orders, coordinate with suppliers, and update delivery dates in the system.
• Setup new suppliers.
• Work with the QA team and suppliers to resolve non-conformance issues and track supplier credits.
• Maintain and review Kanban items to ensure optimal inventory levels.
• Update supplier pricing in the system and maintain accurate records.
• Place orders for non-inventory items.
• Understand product lines, send forecasts and blanket orders to suppliers, and manage forecasts for customer-supplied materials.
• Create and activate part numbers in ERP for raw materials or new items as required.
• Identify alternate suppliers for packaging and supplies and initiate RFQ.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Competencies:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, and Macros.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Must be able to work collaboratively with co-workers.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year college or university; or two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3 years of progressive procurement or supply chain experience in manufacturing.
• Knowledge of ERP, MRP, and ISO 9001.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at times.

Starting salary range: $65,000 - 85,000 actual compensation will be based on experience.

About Us: CCL Industries Inc. employs approximately 26,000 people operating 214 production facilities in 42 countries with corporate offices in Toronto, Canada, and Framingham, Massachusetts. CCL is the world’s largest converter of pressure sensitive and specialty extruded film materials for a wide range of decorative, instructional, functional and security applications for government institutions and large global customers in the consumer packaging, healthcare & chemicals, consumer electronic device and automotive markets. Extruded & laminated plastic tubes, aluminum aerosols & specialty bottles, folded instructional leaflets, precision decorated & die cut components, electronic displays, polymer bank note substrate and other complementary products and services are sold in parallel to specific end-use markets. Avery is the world’s largest supplier of labels, specialty converted media and software solutions for short-run digital printing applications for businesses and consumers available alongside complementary products sold through distributors, mass market stores and e-commerce retailers. Checkpoint is a leading developer of RF and RFID based technology systems for loss prevention and inventory management applications, including labeling and tagging solutions, for the retail and apparel industries worldwide. Innovia is a leading global producer of specialty, high-performance, multi-layer, surface-engineered films for label, packaging and security applications. The Company is partly backward integrated into materials science with capabilities in polymer extrusion, adhesive development, coating & lamination, surface engineering and metallurgy, deployed as needed across the four business segments.

With global presence and the resources of over 26,000 strong, opportunities with CCL Label are endless!