Manufacturing Buyer

Role Summary

The Buyer II is a site-facing procurement professional who owns an assigned portfolio of direct and indirect materials, with emphasis on steel, chemicals, and component hardware, for high-volume manufacturing. The role operates with greater autonomy than Buyer I and leads sourcing events, multi-supplier negotiations, supplier performance improvement, cost improvement, inventory optimization, and supply-risk mitigation. The Buyer II uses JD Edwards or Oracle, MRP, plant-level Kanban, advanced Excel analytics, and tier-board visibility to protect production continuity and manage supplier OTIF, purchase-price variance, inventory turns, backorders, and data integrity through the Oracle transition.

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or three to five or more years of progressive manufacturing-purchasing experience.

• Proficiency in JD Edwards or Oracle purchasing and MRP systems and Kanban workflows.

• Strong Excel capability, including lookups, pivots, and basic modeling; Power Query or Power BI preferred.

• Success managing metals, chemicals, or other long-lead or high-volatility commodities.

• Experience running RFQs, negotiating sourcing awards, and managing suppliers to performance indicators.

• Knowledge of price-break analysis, total cost of ownership, purchase-price variance, and freight and lead-time trade-offs.

• Strong open-order, expedite, RCCM, PDCA, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Ability to maintain regular manufacturing-floor presence and follow PPE and safety requirements.

• Ability to travel approximately 5% to 10% to suppliers, ASD sites, or corporate locations.

Position Impact

This role directly affects supplier delivery, purchase cost, inventory, master-data quality, and uninterrupted manufacturing execution. Success requires strong sourcing discipline, daily purchase-order management, validated cost improvement, reliable supplier performance, early shortage mitigation, and effective support of the Oracle transition.

Performance Metrics Framework
Category Key Performance Indicator Target / Expectation Purpose / Commentary Supplier Supplier OTIF to SIOP Build Plan At least 95% monthly Measures delivery on the acknowledged date and quantity required for weekly builds. Cost PPV / Total Cost Productivity Meet or exceed the annual plan for assigned categories Measures Finance-validated purchased-cost improvement. Inventory Inventory Turns with Service-Level Compliance 14 days of supply or less Measures inventory efficiency without chronic expedites or line stops. Shortages Backorder and Expedite Reduction Month-over-month reduction with corrective actions for recurring SKUs Measures reduction of shortage lines and expedites. Data Integrity Item and Vendor Master Accuracy At least 98% Measures lead-time, pricing, MOQ, and master-data accuracy.