Supply Chain Buyer

Job Description:

Title: Supply Chain Buyer

Location: Mount Pleasant, PA 15688

Duration: Initial Assignment for 6 months, but could be extended for a year. Depending on Performance.

Shift: 1st Shift Monday – Friday: 08AM – 05PM.

Pay Rate: $34.53/hr. on W2

Although this is a Buyer position, it is HM would like to see candidates with Fulfilment/Material Planning/Inventory experience

Key Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience as Buyer position and exposure Fulfilment/Material Planning/Inventory.

Education:

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Logistic or related field.

KEY SKILLS:

1. Procurement Execution:

• Issue purchase orders
• Analyze prices and negotiate with suppliers
• Follow up with suppliers and track orders until delivery

2. Fulfillment Management:

• Process and understand the expediting of materials
• Knowledge of incoterms

Behavioral Skills:

1. Cross-Departmental Collaboration:

• Ability to work effectively with various departments and handle different inputs

2.Sense of Ownership and Urgency:

• Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership over tasks.
• Acts with urgency to meet deadlines and project requirements.

3. Proactive Problem-Solving:

• Proposes ideas and executes them independently
• Able to solve conflicts and face daily challenges effectively management.

Main Accountabilities:

• Respond to RFQ’s on timely manner to meet the sales & Marketing deadline.
• Responsible to maintain the material master data for the parts in service organization.
• Responsible for timely creation of material procurement plan to meet the production and customer demand.
• Accountable to review and create the purchase requisitions in timely manner.
• Ownership to get the purchase orders released in the timely manner without affecting the supplier lead times.
• Accountable to make sure that material is available as per the production plan and customer requirement by fol-lowing up with suppliers on timely manner and to maintain good supplier On-time Delivery (OTD)
• Accountable to maintain the safety stock in SAP for a better material availability.
• Responsible for communicating the concerned departments with all the related information regarding the material availability.
• Accountable to keep the optimal inventory in site and in transit to meet the Net working Capital (NWC) KPI’s of the organization.
• Responsible for Goods Receipt / Invoice Receipt (GRIR), Basware and CIT process and supplier are paid on time to maintain the good relationship with suppliers.
• Perform supplier on boarding process as and when needed as the per Hitachi Energy guidelines.
• Timely escalation of issue with the suppliers to respective hub Category manager for timely resolution.
• Coordinate with GBS on PO creation, material follow up, payment process and other activities and keep a balance in the work load between site planner/buyer and GBS.
• Perform stock transfers from Production to service as and when needed.
• Keep track of the activities and KPI’s for monthly reporting purposes.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience:

• Ownership & Performance: timely reaction with proper communication
• Collaboration & Trust: Excellent networking skills to collaborate with all the stack holders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and intercultural communication skills with the demonstrated ability to drive change through team, facilitating and influencing skills
• Strong customer focus
• Strong SAP knowledge and experience
• Full understanding of planning, procurement and logistics process.