Job Information
Exemplis Buyer in Cypress, California
Position Summary:
Note: While this position is remote, core hours worked will need to be 7am-4pm or 8am-5pm PST.
Were looking for a driven and experienced professional Buyer to help us continue to grow and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing global environment. The primary responsibilities of this role are to support and drive procurement, supply planning, and supplier management actions to help achieve both individual- and team-based KPIs. Emphasis will be needed on proactively managing and partnering with our most critical and challenging suppliers to ensure that business targets are met.
Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
- Procures supplies, materials, services, and equipment for delivery at specified time.
- Places and updates purchase orders for current line of products and ensures timely delivery to eliminate backorders and out of stock items.
- Plans, schedules, and monitors the movement of materials through the fulfillment cycle.
- Advises team of any actual or potential material shortages.
- Ensures suppliers have complete product information to meet product quality standards and deliveries for production.
- Monitors performance of buyer KPIs and develops/executes improvement actions.
- Tracks individual complete and on-time delivery (COT) performance, assigns reason codes for order fulfillment failures, and drives actions to improve future performance for assigned commodities.
- Tracks and reports suppliers service performance on supplier OTD, lead time, flexibility, capacity, safety stock, and shipping to complete and deliver quarterly supplier scorecards.
- Tracks and resolves material review board (MRB) parts and resolves supplier non-conformances and cost recovery.
- Conducts monthly supplier reviews of long-term component levels forecasts, capacity commitments, and mitigations to ensure demand-supply balance.
- Owns and manages procurement KPIs related to assigned accounts/vendors.
- Manages inventory planning and timing of engineering change orders (ECOs).
- Supports PPV and savings objectives by executing supplier and part transition tasks to achieve more favorable material costs.
Qualifications, Skills and Education
Required:
- Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 3+ years of procurement experience.
- Can work core hours of 7am-4pm or 8am-5pm PST
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters Degree preferred.
- CPM, CPSM, APICS certifications preferred.
- Experience in procuring/planning in office furniture industry or at experience with Exemplis
- Mandarin or Spanish language skills a plus.