What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer – Procurement & Supply Chain position at JBT Marel?
Key Responsibilities
- Lead sourcing and supplier management activities, including performance improvement across quality, delivery, and cost.
- Negotiate pricing and support cost control initiatives for assigned commodities.
- Resolve supplier quality issues, material non-conformances, and invoicing discrepancies.
- Analyze MRP signals and manage inventory to meet service levels, inventory turns, and financial targets.
- Identify and reduce excess and obsolete inventory.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering, and service teams to support production, quality, and product improvements.
- Implement engineering changes and support ERP (JDE) procurement processes and issue resolution.
- Experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- ERP/MRP experience (JDE preferred).