Position Summary:

Note: While this position is remote, core hours worked will need to be 7am-4pm or 8am-5pm PST.

Were looking for a driven and experienced professional Buyer to help us continue to grow and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing global environment. The primary responsibilities of this role are to support and drive procurement, supply planning, and supplier management actions to help achieve both individual- and team-based KPIs. Emphasis will be needed on proactively managing and partnering with our most critical and challenging suppliers to ensure that business targets are met.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Procures supplies, materials, services, and equipment for delivery at specified time.
• Places and updates purchase orders for current line of products and ensures timely delivery to eliminate backorders and out of stock items.
• Plans, schedules, and monitors the movement of materials through the fulfillment cycle.
• Advises team of any actual or potential material shortages.
• Ensures suppliers have complete product information to meet product quality standards and deliveries for production.
• Monitors performance of buyer KPIs and develops/executes improvement actions.
• Tracks individual complete and on-time delivery (COT) performance, assigns reason codes for order fulfillment failures, and drives actions to improve future performance for assigned commodities.
• Tracks and reports suppliers service performance on supplier OTD, lead time, flexibility, capacity, safety stock, and shipping to complete and deliver quarterly supplier scorecards.
• Tracks and resolves material review board (MRB) parts and resolves supplier non-conformances and cost recovery.
• Conducts monthly supplier reviews of long-term component levels forecasts, capacity commitments, and mitigations to ensure demand-supply balance.
• Owns and manages procurement KPIs related to assigned accounts/vendors.
• Manages inventory planning and timing of engineering change orders (ECOs).
• Supports PPV and savings objectives by executing supplier and part transition tasks to achieve more favorable material costs.

Qualifications, Skills and Education

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of procurement experience.
• Can work core hours of 7am-4pm or 8am-5pm PST

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree preferred.
• CPM, CPSM, APICS certifications preferred.
• Experience in procuring/planning in office furniture industry or at experience with Exemplis
• Mandarin or Spanish language skills a plus.