Purchasing Buyer

What you will get to do:

• Effectively collaborate with upper management, team members, clients, and suppliers.
• Facilitate daily communications across cross-functional groups, including internal teams, other Lear plants, and corporate office.
• Manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
• Receive purchase lists and bills of materials from engineering groups, enter materials into the purchasing system (COUPA), and monitor the progress of requisitions until order receipt.
• Follow up with both internal buyers and suppliers for delivery issues/opportunities.
• Goods receipt verification: verify receipt of goods and enter details into Coupa
• Receiving and managing job specific items and inventory.
• Manage invoicing processes.
• Logistics coordination: arrange trucking and transportation.
• Handle all necessary customs documents.
• Maintain strong relationships with suppliers, coordinate deliveries, and resolve supply issues, track back orders, and communicate findings to team members
• Work closely with corporate purchasing teams.
• Foster mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among all team members.
• Assist corporate in setting up new vendors and supplier information changes
• Process special payment requests and single source forms.
• Collaborate with corporate to keep catalogs updated.
• Create reports to show the status of requisitions, spot buys, and purchase orders.

What will make you successful:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• + 3 Years experience in a purchasing role at an Automation/Machine build shop.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office – Outlook, Excel, Word.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work efficiently within a team.
• Must be results oriented, focused, and attentive to detail and accuracy.
• Knowledgeable of automation components is preferred but not required.