Junior Buyer

Join Amrize as a Junior Buyer and help construct whats next. If youre ready to put your skills to work on projects that matter - and build a career with a company that's building North America - we want to hear from you!

The Buyer is responsible for the raw material purchasing activities to successfully support our manufacturing operations.

WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH

• Builds and maintains excellent relationships between the Vendors and Amrize to achieve the mutual goals of sales and profitability
• Work with suppliers to resolve local supply issues, track vendor reliability and performance as well as product/material/service quality
• Evaluate supplier performance data and drive improvement at local level
• Proactively analyze procurement and vendors to identify opportunities to save money and improve quality through consolidation of vendors and leverage of scale
• Prepare purchase orders and review requisitions
• Work with Operations team to plan material deliveries with their production schedule
• Maintain and review computerized requisitions of items purchased, costs, delivery, and product performance
• Track and record status of orders, delivery schedules and discrepancies
• Monitor shipments to ensure that goods arrive on time
• Follow-up on undelivered goods
• Maintain product ordering standards
• Research and evaluate suppliers
• Responsible for maintaining purchasing vendor and material data in MRP system
• The Reconcile pending invoices including price discrepancies
• Ensure proper order/transactional execution and follow-up reporting
• Implement master data processes and ensure the data is accurate

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business or equivalent experience
• Two years' working experience in manufacturing setting is preferred
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with suppliers and vendors
• Must be self-motivated and efficient
• Strong organizational skills required
• A willingness to learn and a strong memory are a must
• Computer experience required
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Good with Microsoft office is required