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Summary
The Buyer II supports the day-to-day replenishment of commercialized products by managing purchase orders, supplier commitments, inventory requirements, and supply issues. This position uses SAP, Anaplan, Tableau, Excel, Smartsheet, and other systems to monitor demand and inventory, determine replenishment needs, coordinate with established suppliers, and support timely product availability for global markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage replenishment purchasing for an assigned portfolio of commercialized products and established suppliers.
- Review demand, inventory, forecasts, lead times, and open purchase orders to determine replenishment requirements and timing.
- Create and maintain accurate purchase orders in SAP and monitor orders through delivery.
- Follow up with established suppliers on production schedules, order status, lead times, delivery dates, shortages, and other supply issues.
- Identify potential out-of-stocks, excess inventory, or other supply risks and coordinate appropriate mitigation actions.
- Work with Inventory Control to maintain accurate inventory and purchasing records, including PO receipts, raw-material consumption updates, service-line receipts, inventory adjustments, and other inventory-related transactions.
- Review vendor documentation such as Proof of Delivery and consumption reports and submit or track related Inventory Control requests through Smartsheet.
- Monitor and reconcile inventory held at supplier locations and coordinate inventory reports, discrepancies, and approved purge or disposition requests.
- Partner with Planning, Operations, Inventory Control, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Logistics, and other teams to resolve issues affecting product supply.
- Monitor supplier performance and escalate recurring delivery, quality, responsiveness, or capacity issues as appropriate.
- Maintain accurate purchasing, supplier, and product information and follow applicable SOPs, approval workflows, and documentation requirements.
- Use purchasing, planning, inventory, and reporting systems to support decisions and communicate supply risks and priorities.
- Support continuous improvement of replenishment, inventory-control, supplier-management, and purchasing processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 2-4 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, supply chain, planning, inventory management, or a related field.
- Experience managing purchase orders, replenishment activities, inventory requirements, and established supplier relationships.
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems; SAP experience preferred.
- Experience using supply and demand planning tools; Anaplan experience preferred.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including large datasets, formulas, reconciliations, templates, and reporting; advanced Excel experience preferred.
- Experience with business-intelligence/reporting tools such as Tableau preferred.
- Experience with workflow/request-management tools such as Smartsheet preferred.
- Experience with controlled document, quality, or approval-workflow systems such as MasterControl preferred.
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, communication, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple SKUs, suppliers, and competing priorities.
- Ability to identify supply risks, determine appropriate actions, and communicate or escalate issues in a timely manner.
doTERRA International, LLC. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, or disability.