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Senior Buyer

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Buyer to join the Data Center Power & Control Team in Anaheim, CA. The Senior Buyer is responsible for the purchase of inventory and non-inventory related requirements. Provides departmental support in achieving expediting requirements and ensures the quality, competitive pricing, and timely delivery of all procured items.

What Will You Do?

• Develop and maintain strong value-add relationships with suppliers and monitor supplier capacities for assigned commodities to ensure unexpected capacity constraints do not occur
• Conduct frequent meetings with critical suppliers to resolve open issues and visit supplier sites as necessary to maintain business relationships
• Perform suppliers' assessments for new suppliers and ensure supplier scorecards are documented and reviewed with key suppliers on a regular basis to drive supplier corrective actions
• Analyze and manage data from planning, engineering, manufacturing, and product management to support the manufacturing plan
• Review ERP messages on assigned commodities and process and maintain purchase orders in accordance with company standards
• Coordinate deliveries based on vendor lead times and specific manufacturing objectives
• Review changes in requirements and adjust schedules as necessary to meet business objectives, and notify appropriate departments of significant delays in supply
• Process all price changes according to policy
• Lead projects including outsourcing, in-sourcing, new sourcing, or alternative sourcing for new or existing supply
• Coordinate returns to suppliers for non-conforming goods and materials
• Work with accounting to resolve invoice discrepancies
• Participate in physical inventory and cycle count programs as needed
• Maintain good housekeeping practices, order policies, risk mitigation and other commodity programs as defined
• Update and maintain manufacturing / purchasing data within the ERP system and assist in the implementation of new planning systems as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Education : Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

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Company Info

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA : LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com / en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company's incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active / growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us

About Legrand's Data Center Power and Control Division

The industry-leading brands of Approved Networks, Ortronics, Raritan, Server Technology, and Starline empower Legrand's Data, Power & Control to produce innovative solutions for data centers, building networks, and facility infrastructures. Our division designs, manufactures, and markets world-class products for a more productive and sustainable future. The exceptional reliability of our technologies results from decades of proven performance and a dedication to research and development.