What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Buyer position at Nesco Resource?
A major client of ours has a need for a Sr. Buyer for their Pulaski, NY location. This is a permanent position.
About the Role
The Sr. Buyer ensures material availability, inventory performance, supplier effectiveness, and cost competitiveness across manufacturing operations. Assistes with issues impacting cost, quality, delivery, inventory performance, or SIOP commitments, while operating in alignment with the companies HEART values and operating philosophy.
Responsibilities
- Deliver material availability, supplier performance, and cost outcomes aligned with business, production, and SIOP priorities.
- Own inventory performance by managing large inventory investments to meet corporate objectives for inventory levels, turns, outages, accuracy, and working capital.
- Establish and maintain strong, ethical supplier relationships while leveraging industry knowledge to drive negotiations, sourcing decisions, and cost-saving opportunities.
- Ensure purchasing execution supports production schedules and SIOP commitments through oversight of purchase order management, expediting, issue resolution, and coordination of material flow.
- Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Planning, Engineering, and Quality to align purchasing decisions with forecasts, schedules, technical requirements, and operational priorities.
- Use data, reports, and system discipline to drive communication, performance management, continuous improvement, and proper procedural and material controls across purchasing activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
- 5 years of progressive purchasing, procurement, or supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Proven capability in supplier negotiations, inventory management, cost reduction initiatives, and purchasing execution in production-critical environments.