Buyer at Judge Group
Catoosa, OK
About the Job
Location: Catoosa, OK
Salary: $85,000.00 USD Annually - $95,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Our manufacturing client is currently seeking a Buyer for their plant in the Tulsa OK area.
This job will have the following responsibilities:
Qualifications & Requirements:
Contact: apatt@judge.com
Salary: $85,000.00 USD Annually - $95,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Our manufacturing client is currently seeking a Buyer for their plant in the Tulsa OK area.
This job will have the following responsibilities:
- Monitors and administrates activities involved in the procurement of goods and services.
- Receives purchase orders, invoices, and other forms and reconciles for completeness and accuracy.
- Works with vendors to ensure that products are delivered according to schedule and that purchasing terms and conditions are clear and agreed upon.
- Stores and retrieves purchase orders, proof of purchase, pricing quotes, receipts and other necessary documents as required to report accurate spending figures to finance.
- Verifies bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves bills for payment.
- Enters purchase orders for services, materials, and spare parts per demand or as directed by manager.
- Purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment and supplies from vendors.
- Evaluates vendor quotes and services to determine most desirable suppliers.
- Responsible for managing all supplier-related activities and authority to commit company resources; forecast data, monitor and address supplier quality and delivery performance; track internal demand and material assets to optimize purchase.
- Must meet all deadlines i.e. reporting, expediting, etc.
- Incorporate planning decisions from internal customers and suppliers to reduce material and product variability and arrive at optimal solutions with the lowest total cost to the company.
- Develop requests for quotations and proposals, analyzes supplier responses, negotiates and manages day to day supplier activities, and interfaces with internal and external customers, other Procurement peers and suppliers.
- Expedite deliveries.
- Coordinate job requirements as needed with engineering, planning, sales, and purchasing manager via many available forms of communication.
- Demonstrated integrity with strong business and personal ethics.
- Self-starting team player who demonstrates an attitude reflective of the company operating values.
- Engage suppliers strategically.
- Utilize contract language to recover supplier induced costs and resolve external non-conformance issues in cooperation with internal departments.
- Conflict resolution and coaching ability.
- Ability to drive and implement change as needed.
- Find solutions when problems, events or circumstances are beyond one's control.
- Regular attendance, ability to arrive at work punctually, ability to work on–site.
- Ability to work cooperatively with others, ability to deal respectfully with the public, customers, vendors, other employees, managers, and executive management.
- Ability to manage, organize, and perform multiple tasks concurrently, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, ability to interchange with others in the department.
- Performs analytical, operational, and administrative tasks in support of Managers and Buyers involved in the purchase of acquisition of goods, assets, processes, patents, copyrights, or possession of other services.
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business Administration, or ten (10) years of procurement experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5+ years of procurement/buying experience in manufacturing
- Ability to multitask
- Strong ability to work with a team
Contact: apatt@judge.com
This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com