What are the responsibilities and job description for the SENIOR BUYER position at Franklin Precision Industry Inc?
Essential Functions
• Prepare, solicit, and evaluate technical requests for quotation documents.
• Acts as a primary contact for supplier negotiations and contracts for all responsible purchases.
• Acquire materials, supplies, packaging, and services, placing purchase orders for goods that have requisition approval.
• Maintains constant contact and coordination with end users, suppliers, subcontractors, and freight companies to ensure compliance with each contract.
• Provide cost analysis data to management for strategic decision making
• Manager new model material, component, equipment, or tooling readiness projects.
• Foster and develop a “Development Partner” philosophy to select, develop and manage suppliers:
Ethical Behavior, Mutual Trust, Respect, Candor, Continuous Improvement.
• Act as a primary contact for supplier negotiations and contracts on assigned commodities.
• Assist plant and suppliers in continuous improvement efforts.
• Act as primary contact in resolving issues that the plant has with suppliers.
• Coordinates with Engineering, Quality Assurance, Production Control, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Aisan Engineering and Purchasing to investigate and screen potential suppliers to determine if suppliers meet the Aisan technical requirements.
• Manage, develop and implement Supplier Performance measures for quality, cost and on-time delivery improvements.
• Conduct market research, evaluation, and selection of new and current technology options.
• Ensures that contractual language for capital contracts protects company interests.
• Develops comprehensive project resources and mobilization plans.
• May approve purchase orders in responsible management’s absence.
• Supports Kaizen and continuous improvement activities to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and improve processes
• Other duties as assigned
Additional Functions
Job Dimensions (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities or KSAs)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proficient in constructing analytical tools for decision making using Microsoft Office Suite.
• Technical aptitude and inclination.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to forge internal customer and external supplier relationships
• Deadline and results-oriented
• Working knowledge of budgeting methods and financial controls.
• Able to lead productive and efficient meetings, and direct activities of buyers and Procurement support staff.
• Working knowledge of exchange rate conversions and raw material indices.
• Intermediate working knowledge of injection molding, metal stamping, forging, extrusion, and metal forming processes.
• Able to efficiently identify quotation inconsistencies and potential errors based on general market knowledge, and comparison to other quotations offered to FPI.
Minimum Qualifications
Education Requirements
• BS in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related STEM discipline or minimum 3-years Supply Chain, Purchasing / Procurement, or related experience.