Sr Buyer

Position Summary:
Source and execute the acquisition of required materials for production, negotiate with suppliers, measure, and manage the supplier base, create contracts, review, maintain, and charge back as apply, place orders with suppliers, expedite as needed, and maintain the required inventory levels for defined items.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain procurement systems and strategies i.e Kanban, pay on use, blanket orders, etc., to make sure that customer demand is cover and cost reduction is obtained.
- Sourcing of local, domestic, and international suppliers, according to business needs.
- Contract and supplier negotiation to assure supply chain material availability, quality, and best price.
- Work together with SQE to create supplier development plans for poor performance vendors.
- Release Purchased Orders/ Blanket orders, and Requisitions taking care of expiration and obsolescence.
- Review MRP (in case that one exists...