Buyer

*Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled*

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 & 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.