Supply Chain Buyer

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain strong supplier relationships.
• Meet and/or exceed service expectations and initiatives of the business.
• Partner with the Sales, Sourcing and Operations teams to address urgent customer needs.
• Adhere and perform to the supply chain planner/buyer key performance indicators.
• Adhere to and embrace the THREAD values .

Key responsibilities:

• Communicating effectively with suppliers to maintain a strong relationship.
• Actioning order planning/purchasing signals and acknowledgement process and then keeping the orderbook aligned with system requirements, efficiently resolving any day-to-day supply issues.
• Identifying and resolving potential supply risks, expediting parts where needed to ensure continued supply of parts to our customers
• Manage inventory levels by actioning messages in DOB (expedite, cancel and defer messages).
• Monitor supplier compliance to agreed terms in the system (costs, lead-times and moqs.)
• Communicating effectively with the Operations team to ensure timely receipt of parts and swift resolution of shipping and invoice queries.
• Collaborate with the Technical Service Department and external suppliers on Quality issues.
• Collaborate with Sales, Supply Chain Analysts and the Demand Planning Team, identifying issues and performing root cause analysis to improve the system forecast.
• Utilize Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reporting to optimize inventory investment.
• Other tasks and duties as assigned.

Key Competencies:

The ideal candidate must have the following competencies:

• Fluent in English
• Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
• High level of problem-solving skills with attention to detail. Ability to exercise and apply critical thinking to day-to-day situations
• Experience in outlook, excel and PowerPoint (for example: using formulas, inserting charts, sorting, pivot tables).
• Knowledge of materials management, supply chain, distribution, warehousing and purchasing.
• Results driven with a positive attitude.
• Embrace change.
• Collaboration and Influence.
• Customer value and Market focus.

Skills and Qualifications:

Minimum of five (5) years experience in purchasing in a manufacturing environment/working directly with industrial manufacturing suppliers OR- Degree in Supply Chain Management, Management, or similar field combined with a minimum of two (2) years experience in purchasing in a manufacturing environment/working directly with industrial manufacturing suppliers.

Working knowledge of purchasing and supply chain concepts with APICS, CPIM, NAPM certification and/or association a plus.

This is an exciting opportunity for career development within a growing, global company. If you are ambitious and positive with good communication and administration skills, this is the role for you!