Senior Buyer - Integra LifeSciences
Plainsboro, NJ
About the Job
Changing lives. Building Careers.
Joining us is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what's possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Primary responsibilities:
+ The role requires daily management of suppliers, purchase orders, schedules, and inventory to meet schedule/plant objectives.
+ Foresees and escalates purchasing interruptions, constraints, or issues and works cross-functionally with manufacturing, planning, and/or requisitioner to resolve and minimize impact to the production schedule.
+ Plan, source, and negotiate all purchases for raw materials, equipment, supplies and services in accordance with departmental policies and procedures in support of company policies, goals, and objectives.
+ Responsible for purchase order entry in the ERP system, placing orders with suppliers, and working with suppliers to ensure on-time receipts.
+ Develop, update, and implement effective sourcing strategies to ensure a continuous supply of quality, competitively priced services and materials.
+ Work in collaboration with Quality Assurance, Warehouse, Supplier Quality, and Engineering to resolve supplier/shipment issues. Obtain RMA's (Return Material Authorizations) from suppliers and assist in preparing materials to be returned.
+ Communicate with suppliers and Accounts Payable through the PO and payment process to resolve issues when necessary.
+ Participate in new product introductions (NPIs) as a member of cross-functional development team as needed.
+ Partner with Corporate Procurement to ensure vendors selected fit with the current plan for managing materials and costs.
+ Work with Quality, Manufacturing and Corporate Procurement to consolidate/eliminate vendors that supply duplicate materials to the plant.
+ Coordinate with QC, Warehouse, external suppliers (e.g. sterilizers), and any other required teams/resources to ensure timely availability of received goods into inventory.
+ Expedite purchase orders (POs) that are needed in less than the normal lead time to improve the shortfall between the stated lead time and required lead time.
+ Maintain dates on POs to ensure the most accurate dates are always captured in Oracle.
+ Acts on signals from ASCP, planned order recommendations, order release actions, and exception messages from Oracle, pulling/pushing POs as required.
+ Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for purchasing serving as a partner to manufacturing.
+ Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers to support manufacturing operations.
+ Support and participate in cross-functional teams.
+ Performs other related duties as assigned.
DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required for his position.
Education:
+ Bachelor's degree: SCM, business, finance, economics, or sciences background; relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Experience:
+ 7+ years of experience working in supply chain, production control, and / or manufacturing.
+ Must have a thorough working knowledge of Quality Systems, especially those regulations pertaining to vendors and materials.
+ Strategic thinker, detail oriented, strong analytical skills; must have good communication, organizational, and leadership skills to work with various departments in the organization.
+ Experience using Oracle is highly desirable.
+ Extensive knowledge in analyzing and solving problems in a disciplined fashion, ensuring clear understanding of the root cause(s) and efficient recommendations for resolution.
+ Possess team-focused attitude and work in team-oriented environment.
+ Creative / innovative mindset, with demonstrated ability to 'think outside the box'.
+ Demonstrated computer skills. Advanced MS Excel user.
+ Ability to work on multiple projects with limited direction.
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED
Ability to utilize a computer, telephone and copy machine as well as other general office equipment. Strong computer skills are required.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The physical requirements listed in this section include, but are not limited, to the motor/physical abilities and skills require of position in order to successfully undertake the essential duties and responsibilities of this position. In accordance with the Canadian Human Rights Act, reasonable accommodations may be made to empower individuals with disabilities to undertake the essential duties and responsibilities of the position.
While undertaking the essential duties and responsibilities of the position, the employee must repeatedly sit, listen, speak, type and move throughout the facility. Must be capable of using a keyboard for computer purposes.
Integra LifeSciences is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of race, marital status, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.
This site is governed solely by applicable U.S. laws and governmental regulations. If you'd like more information on your rights under the law, please see the following notices:
EEO Is the Law (https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/index.cfm) | EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans (https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/ada_veterans_employers.cfm)
Integra LifeSciences is committed to provide qualified applicants and employees who are disabled veterans or individuals with disabilities with needed reasonable accommodations in accordance with the ADA (https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-ada.cfm) . If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, please email us at careers@integralife.com or call us at 855-936-2666.
Integra - Employer Branding from Integra LifeSciences on Vimeo (https://player.vimeo.com/video/265760526)
Joining us is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what's possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Primary responsibilities:
+ The role requires daily management of suppliers, purchase orders, schedules, and inventory to meet schedule/plant objectives.
+ Foresees and escalates purchasing interruptions, constraints, or issues and works cross-functionally with manufacturing, planning, and/or requisitioner to resolve and minimize impact to the production schedule.
+ Plan, source, and negotiate all purchases for raw materials, equipment, supplies and services in accordance with departmental policies and procedures in support of company policies, goals, and objectives.
+ Responsible for purchase order entry in the ERP system, placing orders with suppliers, and working with suppliers to ensure on-time receipts.
+ Develop, update, and implement effective sourcing strategies to ensure a continuous supply of quality, competitively priced services and materials.
+ Work in collaboration with Quality Assurance, Warehouse, Supplier Quality, and Engineering to resolve supplier/shipment issues. Obtain RMA's (Return Material Authorizations) from suppliers and assist in preparing materials to be returned.
+ Communicate with suppliers and Accounts Payable through the PO and payment process to resolve issues when necessary.
+ Participate in new product introductions (NPIs) as a member of cross-functional development team as needed.
+ Partner with Corporate Procurement to ensure vendors selected fit with the current plan for managing materials and costs.
+ Work with Quality, Manufacturing and Corporate Procurement to consolidate/eliminate vendors that supply duplicate materials to the plant.
+ Coordinate with QC, Warehouse, external suppliers (e.g. sterilizers), and any other required teams/resources to ensure timely availability of received goods into inventory.
+ Expedite purchase orders (POs) that are needed in less than the normal lead time to improve the shortfall between the stated lead time and required lead time.
+ Maintain dates on POs to ensure the most accurate dates are always captured in Oracle.
+ Acts on signals from ASCP, planned order recommendations, order release actions, and exception messages from Oracle, pulling/pushing POs as required.
+ Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for purchasing serving as a partner to manufacturing.
+ Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers to support manufacturing operations.
+ Support and participate in cross-functional teams.
+ Performs other related duties as assigned.
DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required for his position.
Education:
+ Bachelor's degree: SCM, business, finance, economics, or sciences background; relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Experience:
+ 7+ years of experience working in supply chain, production control, and / or manufacturing.
+ Must have a thorough working knowledge of Quality Systems, especially those regulations pertaining to vendors and materials.
+ Strategic thinker, detail oriented, strong analytical skills; must have good communication, organizational, and leadership skills to work with various departments in the organization.
+ Experience using Oracle is highly desirable.
+ Extensive knowledge in analyzing and solving problems in a disciplined fashion, ensuring clear understanding of the root cause(s) and efficient recommendations for resolution.
+ Possess team-focused attitude and work in team-oriented environment.
+ Creative / innovative mindset, with demonstrated ability to 'think outside the box'.
+ Demonstrated computer skills. Advanced MS Excel user.
+ Ability to work on multiple projects with limited direction.
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED
Ability to utilize a computer, telephone and copy machine as well as other general office equipment. Strong computer skills are required.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The physical requirements listed in this section include, but are not limited, to the motor/physical abilities and skills require of position in order to successfully undertake the essential duties and responsibilities of this position. In accordance with the Canadian Human Rights Act, reasonable accommodations may be made to empower individuals with disabilities to undertake the essential duties and responsibilities of the position.
While undertaking the essential duties and responsibilities of the position, the employee must repeatedly sit, listen, speak, type and move throughout the facility. Must be capable of using a keyboard for computer purposes.
Integra LifeSciences is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of race, marital status, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.
This site is governed solely by applicable U.S. laws and governmental regulations. If you'd like more information on your rights under the law, please see the following notices:
EEO Is the Law (https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/index.cfm) | EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans (https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/ada_veterans_employers.cfm)
Integra LifeSciences is committed to provide qualified applicants and employees who are disabled veterans or individuals with disabilities with needed reasonable accommodations in accordance with the ADA (https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-ada.cfm) . If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, please email us at careers@integralife.com or call us at 855-936-2666.
Integra - Employer Branding from Integra LifeSciences on Vimeo (https://player.vimeo.com/video/265760526)
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