Senior Buyer / Planner

Job Description

Job Description

The Senior Buyer / Planner’s role will be to provide full support to the Materials Department, including the planning and procurement of materials and services in a timely manner while ensuring vendor requirements and customer needs are met.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach material buyers and planners to help enhance their career and professional development.
• Work with the Planning Manager to assign tasks and goals for the Material Buyer / Planners, to include reports on short and long-term material strategies.
• Assist in maintaining SIOP goals.
• Coordinate and run the daily production meeting and weekly production priority meeting.
• Create and implement an effective planning and sourcing strategy for assigned products and programs to minimize unnecessary inventory, maximize cash flow, and ensure the production lines are always sufficiently supplied – LEAN manufacturing focused.
• Negotiate terms and conditions with suppliers to include standard terms and conditions as well as complex customer flow downs.
• Ensure the purchase of all goods and services comply with company policy and procedures and are in full compliance with all lTAR regulations.
• Utilize ERP system for planning material needs to meet delivery dates and provide accurate lead times for orders for specific products and programs.
• Maintain required item master data.
• Assess material requirements and analyze price and supply data to make business decisions to maximize cashflow.
• Analyze MRP data, to maintain information integrity to meet or exceed material requirements.
• Issue Purchase Orders for materials and services, usually with established vendors.
• Assure that open purchase orders are tracked, followed up on and expedited as needed, communicate status.
• Generate rework work orders when required by Operations or Quality Assurance.
• Assist with creating and renewing Wilcox / Supplier Non-Disclosure Agreements.
• Delivers briefs, updates and reports as needed and when required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Requirements

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Physical Requirements :

Wilcox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state or local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities.

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