Buyer II - Crossfire Consulting Corporation

Buyer II Position-Initial contract until 12/31/2024.

Pre-screening questions:
What is your purchasing experience and volume?
What is your project management experience (or experience working w/ project managers?)?
What is your negotiation experience?
What is your experience with right to left planning to track delivery of parts?

Responsibilities for the Buyer II:

• Coordinates purchasing material, services, and product requirements for programs.
• Works with program leads to identify long lead materials.
• Works with sourcing and program team to select suppliers for bid and award from the approved list in order to achieve program objectives.
• Prepares purchase orders in Coupa and Costpoint software.
• Ensures supplier s documentation such as terms and conditions and NDAs are ready prior to engagement.
• Manages orders with suppliers, monitors backlog and daily order status report, adjusts schedules as needed, manage/modify POs with overdue shipments and open orders.
• Works with logistics team to ensure timely and economical deliveries of all materials to production location.
• Ensure that all requirements for purchasing, storage, and transportation of materials are adhered to
• Resolves discrepancies related to purchasing, delivery, receiving, accounts payable invoices, and payment to the supplier.
• Expedites materials for shortage management.
• Coordinate returns to vendor for discrepant material from receiving inspection.
• Contributes to continuing improvement efforts across all facets of supply chain.

Qualifications for the Buyer II:

• Minimum of 2-3 years tactical level experience in purchasing.
• Required Industry Experience: Aerospace or Automotive; Boeing, Lockheed, etc. No food experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a related field.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and changing environment to accomplish goals while managing multiple tasks.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Outlook and Windows programs (Excel, Word, Powerpoint).
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, and independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills.
• Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated results
• Buyer that fully managed a commodity end to end (raw material, COTS, buy parts, etc.)
• Experience working with project managers
• Experience predicting material needs 1-2 months in advance
• Experience procuring long lead items
• Experience with RFQs/RFPs/RFIs, PO processing, expediting, fully accountable for their commodity
• Knowledgeable amount MRP systems (any system okay). CostPoint experience is a plus.

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