Buyer Planner

Position Title:            Buyer/Planner 

Classification:             Exempt (Professional)

Full Time:                    Yes

Salary Grade:

Reports To:                 Supply Chain Manager

Position Overview:

As a critical member of our team, the Buyer Planner is responsible for fulfilling various purchasing and forecasting tasks. This role requires previous purchasing experience and ERP/MRP experience.   Though independent and team efforts, this role supports the Supply Chain Manager while ensuring production has the necessary supplies through timely and cost effective processes.  The role will work closely with production, accounting, sales and engineering to maintain the flow of business.   

Position Duties and Responsibilities: (includes but is not limited to)

• Issue purchase orders to suppliers based on reports generated through ERP systems.
• Track and expedite purchase orders as required, keeping ERP systems up to date.
• Manage operating supplies and support services to support day to day requirements.
• In conjunction with Manager, understand, analyze and interpret MRP signals and take appropriate actions.
• Select suppliers and negotiate with same to provide optimal pricing and service.
• Support Manager with forecasts and plans assigned commodities at the SKU level.
• Generates and maintains re-order point (ROP) for new and existing SKU’s.
• Works with production management to resolve material shortages.
• If requested by Manager, help with coordinating ocean freight with suppliers and freight forwarders.
• Builds and maintains relationships based on competence, respect, and trust with suppliers.
• Assists in the preparation and analysis of data required to support Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) as required by the Supply Chain Manager.
• Performs numerous and varied clerical and analytical tasks as needed.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Talents and Qualifications (Required):

• The ability to communicate and interface with associates, suppliers, and customers in a professional and courteous manner.
• Quality and detail oriented.
• Proven customer service skills – ability to build and maintain strong internal and external customer relations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bias towards continuous improvement and the ability to act as a change agent.
• Capable of achieving results in a self-directed, self-motivated workplace.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of word processing, spreadsheet and data entry.
• Comfortable and successful in a high paced, demanding environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Desire to learn, grow, change, and work as part of a team.
• Three to five years of experience in an ERP/MRP commercial/institutional products manufacturing environment.
• The ability to handle multiple projects and responsibilities in an organized manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with SAP/B1 software beneficial but not required.
• Familiarity with Product Configurator software beneficial but not required.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel and Word skills.

Essential Job Functions

• Stationary position: Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• Moving, traversing: Must be able to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.  
• Operating, using: Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
• Communicating, expressing oneself: Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.  Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• Perceiving, identifying, observing: The ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).   

Physical Demands

• Able to bend, squat, twist, climb stairs and lift

• While performing the duties of this position the employee is frequently required to walk, sit, stand, talk and hear with occasional bending, stooping, crouching and kneeling. 
• Regularly required to use hands to fingers.
• Duties require use of computer software and equipment that involve regularly sitting for extended periods of time and repetitive hand movements.
• Ability to occasionally lift and move objects up to 30 lbs. 

Company Information:

LIVES DEPEND ON US!

Since 1993, Evenlite Inc. has designed, manufactured, and marketed a full range of emergency lighting products to discerning customers all over the world. Beginning with our patented use of LED (light-emitting diode) technology, Evenlite has continued to lead the market with innovative products that deliver unparalleled performance and a sophisticated aesthetic.

We have proven ourselves as the choice of leading architects, acting as the preferred manufacturer on such prestigious projects as Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall and Santiago Calatrava’s Milwaukee Art Museum. On all projects we strive to utilize products that meet and exceed life safety standards while preserving the designers’ architectural visions.