Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client
Job Title: Buyer
Location: Forest, OH
Duration: Full Time
Work Type: Onsite
Job Type: Full Time
Work Type: Onsite
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description:
Responsibilities
- Identifies and recommends suppliers by investigating potential suppliers, researching parts, equipment, machinery, services, and materials availability.
- Conducts supplier site visits and evaluates them as to production capability, performance, delivery, and other key business criteria.
- May complete supplier certification as part of a technical and/or quality team.
- Purchases parts, equipment, and materials by preparing request for quotations and submitting purchase orders with approved suppliers.
- Issues purchase orders and agreements that accurately reflect price, schedule, terms, and conditions as negotiated with suppliers.
- Maintains accurate lead times for assigned commodities.
- Evaluates bids for standard and non-standard items.
- Selects suppliers for lower cost items or items of limited scope and complexity and negotiates price, delivery, quality and service.
- Develops alternate sources of supply by identifying and researching prospective suppliers.
- Monitors and evaluates supplier performance (i.e. delivery).
- Issues request for root cause corrective action for poor performing suppliers.
- Advises appropriate personnel of impending supplier failure to fulfill contractual agreements that may delay production or delivery.
- Resolves shipment quality discrepancies by mediating supplier/manufacturing issues.
- Facilitates the resolution of issues by arranging and participating in conferences between suppliers and company personnel.
- Negotiates and settles damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over-shipments, cancellations and engineering changes with suppliers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree (BA) in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience which has provided both theoretical and practical knowledge in the field.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the essential functions of the job typically acquired through three or more years of related experience.
- Certificate in Purchasing Management (CPM) preferred.
- Knowledge of key purchasing and negotiating methods, principles and concepts and general business operations.
- General knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to procurement.
- Ability to use standard business application software and specialized purchasing and/or materials systems ERP (Syteline).
- Ability to negotiate effectively to obtain the best price and terms.
- Ability to read blueprints preferred.
Work Environment And Physical Demands
- The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear.
- The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms: stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Forest, OH |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $66,000–$100,000 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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