What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Constellium?
Job Summary:
Through Safety first, be responsible for supporting purchasing activities to achieve cost targets and working capital targets for assigned commodity groups and strategic projects, and management of the supply base. Requires a high degree of professional integrity, ethics, and confidentiality.
Responsibilities:
Constellium Muscle Shoals is an aluminum manufacturing plant based in Alabama with over 1,200 employees. With its widest strip mill in the USA and a world-class recycling center, the site represents one of the largest sites within Constellium and is a world-class can recycling center, with the capacity to recycle nearly 20 billion cans per year. Muscle Shoals’ main product is aluminum can sheet for the packaging industry, particularly for beverage containers. It manufactures sheet used in all three components of an aluminum can, namely body stock, coated end stock and tab stock. Additionally, Muscle Shoals supplies Auto Body Sheet substrate to Constellium’ s Bowling Green, Kentucky, site.
Constellium is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Through Safety first, be responsible for supporting purchasing activities to achieve cost targets and working capital targets for assigned commodity groups and strategic projects, and management of the supply base. Requires a high degree of professional integrity, ethics, and confidentiality.
Responsibilities:
- Recognizes and initiates changes when business conditions warrant it.
- Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with internal and external customers.
- Negotiates innovative solutions to deal with problems and opportunities.
- Daily Purchasing Activities:
- Management of the 3-way match process (Purchase Orders, Receipts, Invoices)
- Expediting
- Continued supply of goods and materials to the plant
- Providing support to internal and external customers as required
- Supports the strategic purchasing activities of others.
- Develops an understanding of existing supply base capabilities to facilitate daily management of commercial matters.
- Participates in cross-functional and continuous improvement activities.
- Data gathering, analysis, and report preparation as required.
- Execution of assigned purchasing projects.
- Prepare purchase orders for supplies and equipment.
- Daily purchasing and material expediting, when needed.
- Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
- Participate in the development of specifications for equipment, products or substitute materials.
- Review, evaluate, and approve specifications for issuing and awarding bids.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred; Associate degree and/or Certification in Supply Chain Management considered.
- Requires 2 years of experience in purchasing area.
- Commitment to best practices developed by Continuous Improvement.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel required.
- SAP experience preferred, working knowledge of ERP systems required.
- Must be passionate toward implementing and enhancing the growth and development across all areas of responsibility.
- Presentation skills - speaks with confidence in a variety of settings - one on one, small and large groups. Can get messages across that have desired effect.
- Deals effectively with change. Keeps composure when handling risk and uncertainty.
- Manages time effectively; establishes clear priorities.
Constellium Muscle Shoals is an aluminum manufacturing plant based in Alabama with over 1,200 employees. With its widest strip mill in the USA and a world-class recycling center, the site represents one of the largest sites within Constellium and is a world-class can recycling center, with the capacity to recycle nearly 20 billion cans per year. Muscle Shoals’ main product is aluminum can sheet for the packaging industry, particularly for beverage containers. It manufactures sheet used in all three components of an aluminum can, namely body stock, coated end stock and tab stock. Additionally, Muscle Shoals supplies Auto Body Sheet substrate to Constellium’ s Bowling Green, Kentucky, site.
Constellium is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
