Highly successful, cutting-edge, global electronics manufacturing company has an excellent career opportunity for a Senior Materials Buyer to join their Purchasing dept and take full advantage of everything this company has to offer in terms an exceptional work culture, career progression and generous benefits package!
The Senior Materials Buyer oversees procurement activities to ensure the timely availability of all materials and services required to support operations. This includes sourcing and purchasing across multiple categories, including metals, plastics/resins, components, chemicals, packaging, critical MRO items, and outsourced processes. .
Responsibilities of Senior Materials Buyer
- Coordinate purchasing requirements by aligning material needs with production plans, customer orders, demand forecasts, and EDI releases.
- Execute daily and weekly MRP runs to maintain adequate material supply, minimize shortages, and keep production schedules on track.
- Evaluate MRP outputs and turn planned requirements into purchase orders, modifying delivery timelines through expedited orders, schedule adjustments, or cancellations as necessary.
- Oversee and update ERP planning data, including supplier information, lead times, minimum order quantities (MOQ), lot sizing, safety stock, scrap and yield factors, and bills of material (BOMs).
- Manage new product introductions, engineering changes, and material phase-in/phase-out activities to minimize shortages and obsolete inventory.
- Work closely with warehouse personnel to ensure proper FIFO inventory rotation and compliance with material shelf-life requirements.
- Issue and manage purchase orders, supplier schedules, and material call-offs.
- Manage coordination of external processing activities, including plating, heat treatment, and coating, while ensuring materials are delivered to and returned from suppliers according to required timelines.
- Monitor and track inbound and outsourced-process freight costs.
- Bachelor's or Associate's degree in Supply Chain Management or a related technical discipline.
- At least 5 years of experience in materials planning, procurement, or supply chain operations within a manufacturing setting; experience in the automotive industry is a plus.
- Demonstrated proficiency using ERP systems, with practical experience managing MRP processes, purchase orders, and maintaining planning-related master data.
- Thorough understanding of MRP principles, inventory planning, lead times, safety stock management, and lot-sizing methodologies.
- Experience managing supplier relationships, purchase orders, and outsourced manufacturing processes.
- Knowledge of inventory control practices, including FIFO, cycle counting, and inventory accuracy management.
- Experience working with metals, plastics/resins, and outsourced processes such as plating or coating.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills preferred.
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