Position Summary:
The incumbent is responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and negotiating goods and services for an area they specialize in - food, beverage, technical, IT, for example. They require comprehensive knowledge of specialized commodities to influence customers' and suppliers' procurement decisions of critical goods and services.
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Research suppliers from a variety of usual and unusual sources.
- Develops a procurement and negotiation strategy based on a few variables.
- Performs moderately complex price analysis based on few variables and confers with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
- Negotiates price and availability and works with Logistics to define transportation and delivery schedule. (i.e., ordering and storing schedule)
- Manages supplier performance to ensure consistent service, high quality, and low costs of goods/services.
- Works independently with minimum supervision and freedom of decision within guidelines. Seeks guidance from management on unusual situations.
- Guide junior positions (i.e., Buyer I, Buyer II)
- May travel to trade shows, audit suppliers, visit ships for loadings, repositioning, etc.
- $50,000 expenditure limit
- Between $1-5M spend management for goods/services
Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and knowledge.
- 5+ years of related procurement experience or specialized technical experience, including negotiation and data analysis, are required.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects and priorities.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate in a multicultural environment with all levels of employees and management.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office products, specifically Excel.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
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