What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer-Philadelphia,Pennsylvania position at PEI GENESIS INC.?
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SUMMARY:
The Buyer position is a critical role to the day-to-day operations at PEI, responsible for planning & purchasing of specific products. This includes the responsibility of managing orders, monitoring and managing inventory, and negotiating to assure favorable purchase pricing with suppliers is achieved. The buyer works as a team with several Product Managers and Expeditors to perform all duties in a manner which ensures total quality and effective customer service.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
TECHNICAL and/or MANAGERIAL JOB COMPETENCIES:
ESSENTIAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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SUMMARY:
The Buyer position is a critical role to the day-to-day operations at PEI, responsible for planning & purchasing of specific products. This includes the responsibility of managing orders, monitoring and managing inventory, and negotiating to assure favorable purchase pricing with suppliers is achieved. The buyer works as a team with several Product Managers and Expeditors to perform all duties in a manner which ensures total quality and effective customer service.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum High school diploma and or 3 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Bachelor's degree and/or advanced relevant experience preferred.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment or other company with Bills of Material is preferred.
TECHNICAL and/or MANAGERIAL JOB COMPETENCIES:
- Effective Communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to quickly learn products, processes, and technically complex systems.
- Experience planning, buying and/or pricing products with Bills Of Materials.
- Experience with an ERP/MRP system such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or other.
- Organization & Task Management skills
- Microsoft Excel - intermediate spreadsheet skills
- Microsoft Outlook & Word
- Customer Service mindset
ESSENTIAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plans purchasing activities, and develops purchasing strategies for components and assemblies assigned to them. Intimately works in detail in our ERP planning/purchasing system.
- Negotiate pricing with suppliers and schedule annual supplier blanket orders
- Performs stock checks and obtains delivery information (may utilize on-line vendor access) for sales representatives to process customer quotes.
- Process purchasing suggestion daily and in a timely manner, making appropriate decisions beyond the system-generated "recommendations".
- Verifies PO's are processed correctly; ensures PO's requiring special handling are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Responds with a sense of urgency to any request or issue and provides information and/or resolution in an expeditious manner.
- Communicates important supplier information to Product Managers, and Expeditors, including such information such as problem deliveries, price increases, etc.
- Coordinates order problem resolutions with Expeditors and Product Managers and Sales Representatives if need be.
- Communicate directly with company Salespeople, develop relationships and exhibit a clear customer service minded experience.
- Develops relationships to achieve a "favored" status with suppliers.
- Assists Expeditors and Product Managers in daily activities as required.
- Interacts with all internal customers in a friendly, timely and helpful manner.
- Sends and receives faxes; makes copies; runs reports as needed.
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