Buyer

E.S. Kluft & Company

The Standard of Luxury and Comfort

Hazleton, Pennsylvania

We’re seeking highly qualified, collaborative, professional, knowledgeable, and results-driven Buyer to support our growing mattress manufacturing company. Future employees will have the opportunity to join Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance on the first of the month following date of hire. We offer 10 holidays, vacation, sick pay, and 401k employer match.

E.S. Kluft & Company is known for a long story of building only the best mattress in the U.S.! We are the company of choice for luxurious high-quality mattresses and want to be the employer of choice for your next career employment opportunity.

$24-25/hr

SUMMARY:

The Buyer coordinates and facilitates the procurement of all raw materials, factory supplies, and goods/services as requested. This position is responsible for placing purchase orders for new and existing production materials, negotiating supply contracts, and should be generally aware of underlying cost drivers within various relevant markets.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Planning

• Ensure the continuous availability of quality materials via timely and effective execution of enterprise resource planning (ERP) materials requirement planning (MRP).
• Utilize ERP and customer outputs to validate MRP requirements to optimize purchasing strategy and inventory build plan.
• Maintain materials requirement planning (MRP) planning parameters.
• Proactively identify and quantify risks impacting material supply and subsequent fulfilment of customer orders.
• Manage inventory replenishment with analytic inventory models including but not limited to visual management, periodic review, and order point as required.
• Be able to analyze data, set up, and run a pull system of inventory control.
• Collaborate with operations management to ensure proper inventory levels required to meet anticipated demand/monthly ship plan.
• Maintain high inventory accuracy through cycle counting and inventory audits.

Purchasing

• Manage the purchasing cycle, including generating and processing Purchase Orders (PO), PO follow-up, goods receiving, and three-way match for final payment.
• Manage inventory levels through PO release, expedite, de-expedite, and cancellations.
• Provide an uninterrupted flow of materials to production.
• Develop strategies including dual sourcing, safety stock, and forward buying to minimize extraneous financial risk such as supplier yield, delivery, pricing, and market changes from economic or catastrophic events.
• Assist with invoices, goods receipt, or purchase price corrections needed for Accounts Payable processing of invoices.

General

• Daily reporting and measuring of department key performance indicators.
• Participate in strategic planning with all levels of the organization.
• Assist manufacturing with process improvement and lean initiatives related to supply chain.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field or high school equivalent and 3 years relevant experience
• Advanced knowledge of ERP systems. SAP experience highly preferred.
• Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Detailed knowledge of purchasing business functions, materials requirements planning, manufacturing planning, inventory control, cycle counting, and warehousing.
• Quantitative and analytical acumen; inquisitive nature; critical thinking/problem-solving skills; ability to challenge status quo
• Five years manufacturing experience. Bedding industry preferred but not required.
• Demonstrable understanding of Lean manufacturing & inventory management principles.
• Ability to analyze data to make operational decisions.
• High sense of urgency.