Role: Buyer
What: Direct Placement
Salary: $71.1k – 90.8k
Where: Greater Knoxville Area

Important Notes

1. Applicants must have experience purchasing plastics, polymers, or resins. 
2. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this job. 

Overview 

The Buyer must be able to work in a fast-paced environment. The buyer will maintain purchase orders and delivery schedule on the company ERP system. Requires daily interaction with suppliers assigned to specific commodity groups to resolve any issue affecting quality. Buyers will quote parts and services, analyze quotes and make recommendations to award business. The buyer will work with suppliers to maintain appropriate levels of safety stock, minimize order quantities and ensure quoted lead times are adhered to.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Manages day to day performance of a group of suppliers
2. Manage purchase orders to maintain optimal inventory levels
3. Determine proper MRP procurement parameters and set the system to manage inventory
4. Maintain prices
5. Send RFP RFQ to approved suppliers
6. Understand and manages supplier capacity
7. Resolve invoice discrepancies and paperwork errors
8. Report delivery status, issues and propose solutions
9. Certification/refresher courses as needed
10. Work closely with the Planning group to ensure timely availability of existing and new products and components.
11. Actively interact with internal and external teams
12. Up to 10% Travel is required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related field is preferred
• 5-10 years of experience buying plastics, polymer, resin is required
• Desired skills in working with MRP systems: Lead Time, MOQ, Exceptions. A firm understanding of basic Math, have excellent follow-through practices and utilize excellent communication skills; both verbal and written.
• Intermediate to Advance skills using Microsoft Excel Worksheets and Database.
• Have previous experience in Purchase order management, writing Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Quotation (RFQ) and priority management.
• Demonstrate good Negotiation, Convincing, and Assertiveness Skills
• Must have worked in Supply Chain, Finance or Manufacturing in plant and experience working as a buyer.
• Demonstrate and practice Personal Qualities in: Understand business implications of supplier actions
• Hands on, not afraid to walk through the plant to resolve issues
• Takes ownership of job function
• Accountability
• Can bring people together around a table to resolve a problem
• Ambitious, desire to learn and grow
• Ethical, Honest, Accurate, precise, Attention to detail and is comfortable with some degree of routine