Job Description
Our client, a Medical Technology company, is looking for a Buyer for their Peachtree Corners, GA location.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Why Should You Apply?
Responsibilities:
- Manages procurement of direct materials to support business requirements: including purchase order management, negotiating costs, purchase order management, and inventory management.
- Assists with key procurement initiatives as directed by management.
- Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery commitments to designated suppliers as necessary to support production and/or sales requirements within the business.
- Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity groups and/or supplier relationships.
- Supports alignment of production supplier requirements and sourcing strategies with those of product development (NPI) for designated suppliers/commodities to ensure uninterrupted material availability, alignment of risk, and cost goals with vision for the business.
- Owns performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, providing information to strategic purchasing for supplier business reviews.
- Utilizes lean sourcing principles (Kanban, consignment, and other similar material pull methods) to achieve 100% material availability and optimize onhand inventory.
- Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier ontime delivery, quality, inventory turns, problem shelf, expedited inbound freight, vendor scrap, E&O reduction).
- Leverages problem solving skills to propose solutions to identified supply chain issues.
- Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
- Coordinate with strategic purchasing price changes due to cost reduction initiatives, volume pricing or requested by supplier.
- Supports assigned commodity team by participating in identified risk mitigation and cost reduction opportunities and supporting other commodity projects as assigned.
Requirements:
- BS degree or equivalent
- 3+ years of purchasing experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
- Computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile.
- Working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling, and forecasting.
- Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
- Ability to consistently achieve stretch goals and objectives.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- English 90%
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Peachtree Corners, GA |
| Industry | Management Consulting Services |
| Salary | $29.21–$34.21 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | https://www.iconma.com/ |
Benefits
401K, Employee Referral Program, Life Insurance
About Company
ICONMA is a global information consulting management firm providing Professional Staffing Services and Project-Based Solutions for organizations in a broad range of industries.
- Corporate Headquarters in Troy, Michigan; 20+ locations worldwide.
- Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE); certified by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC); and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
- Founded in 2000
- 2000+ Employees
The company was founded on the principle that success is derived from delivering high quality service and resources in the most responsive, flexible, and innovative way. ICONMA invests in people and resources with a single goal: To provide our customers with the highest quality service in the most responsive manner. Through its network of offices, ICONMA provides the resources to help clients maintain their competitive advantage.
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Calendar Managementunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Cargo/Freightunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Demand Forecasting/Planningunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Engineering Change Orderunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Inventory Turnsunmatched
- Kanbanunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Materials Planningunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Order Deliveryunmatched
- Order Picking/Packingunmatched
- Peachtree Accountingunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Procurement Planningunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Pricingunmatched
- Product/Service Launchunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Sales Supportunmatched
- Sourcing Strategyunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Planningunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Sourcingunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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