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Senior Buyer - Strategic Accounts
Senior Buyer - Strategic AccountsNorth Carolina Staffing • Youngsville, NC, US
Senior Buyer - Strategic Accounts

Senior Buyer - Strategic Accounts

North Carolina Staffing • Youngsville, NC, US
5 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Strategic Buyer Position

Eaton's Electrical Sector is currently seeking a Strategic Buyer to join our team in Youngsville, NC. The supply chain orchestration from customer to supplier requires a strong operational partner to manage, measure and maintain business relations with external supply chain partners. The Strategic Buyer is responsible for complex procurement of custom products and services and related supply chain aspects such as purchase orders, inbound volumes, spend, procurement volumes, forecast and capacity commits and supplier performance and compliance. The Strategic Buyer's focus lies on new and defined suppliers for a range of products procured from outside of Eaton. The expected annual salary range for this role is $83,250 - $122,100 a year. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You'll Do :

  • Procure parts and services with complex or custom requirements
  • Perform supplier capabilities qualification and enforce quality requirements
  • Receive, validate and communicate Engineering Specs for parts with support of Engineering
  • Monitor new tender or portfolio needs, validate make / buy & facilitate timely RFx and vendor onboarding
  • Assess market conditions and define critical materials, sourcing strategy
  • Negotiate price-volume-lead time-service level-warranty T&Cs for optimal and risk-efficient balance
  • Engage suppliers in tender preparation and align on responsibilities for delivery, installation and maintenance
  • Manage Material Forecast collaboration and receive capacity commits from suppliers
  • Align on FAT / FWT testing execution with the support of Engineering / Quality or Customer representatives
  • Track supplier performance, compliance and facilitate monthly and quarterly review and quality audits

Basic (Required) Qualifications :

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
  • Minimum of two (2) years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, operations or a combination of those functions
  • No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Youngsville, NC. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
  • Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position

    • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Bachelor's degree in business or engineering from an accredited institution
  • 3+ years of procurement or supply chain experience within a manufacturing environment
  • 3+ years' experience with SAP MRP / ERP system preferred
  • 3+ years' experience working in a high mix, low volume manufacturing environment

    • Position Success Criteria :

  • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work in a matrix environment, get results and drive change through others
  • Effective oral and written communication skills as well as planning and organizational skills
  • Ability to manage by influence through solid relationships and process focus
  • Ability to effectively present results and recommendations to senior-level executive team
  • Proficiency with Microsoft applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.)
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    Strategic Buyer • Youngsville, NC, US