Senior Buyer

Duties & Responsibilities: The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include but may not be limited to the following. Additional duties may be assigned depending upon the needs of the business.

Manages a portfolio of commodity (purchased part category) suppliers:

• Accountable for delivering and implementation of a comprehensive strategic supply strategy (for their respective commodity) to the Executive Leadership Team.
• Portfolio designations include- Preferred, Potential, No New Business, and Desource. Suppliers are initially selected based on the commodity team’s recommendation (confirmed by the Executive Leadership Team).
• Suppliers understand the Senior Buyer is the “gatekeeper” to company opportunity.
• The Senior Buyer creates a strategy based on their insight of current purchase commodity needs + future requirements (vision and innovation).
• Ensures the supplier engagement processes (RFQ, negotiations, etc.) are conducted with fairness and integrity.
• Senior Buyer provides Supply Chain guidance to all company locations purchasing the commodity products.

This position is also responsible for the procurement of production materials and services, non-production materials and services, consumable tooling,