Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer

At Allegis, we live and breathe access hardware opening doors to unparalleled quality and innovation. We help solve customer-specific problems and supply thousands of products, including handles, latches, hinges, drawer slides, gas springs, sealing profiles, adhesives, and more. To us, these are more than components; they are a factor in contributing to our customers’ success. Our global supply network and engineering expertise ensure you get the perfect part for your application. If we don’t have it, we will find it; if it does not exist, we will create it, providing a customized solution experience.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes and assesses product and inventory needs for the organization
• Manage the purchase and transfer of products between suppliers and internal warehouses
• Assesses, manages and communicates vendor performance
• Establishes and maintains relationships with assigned suppliers
• Monitor, assess and manage inventory product activity
• Keeps current and communicates to direct supervisor supplier and market changes
• Perform additional tasks as directed by the supervisor or management
• Procure production (and related) materials while emphasizing best combination of cost, quality and delivery.
• Procure non-production goods, MRO and other related tooling and equipment
• Utilize all inputs possible to the planning and procurement process – SAP outputs, intrinsic sales data, field reports from QA and Purchasing, observed supplier performance, production-related data, etc.
• Actively support Lean activities as they apply to purchasing raw materials – look for ways to eliminate waste wherever it occurs in the supply/production chain.
• Optimize inventory to achieve FY targets and improve customer on-time delivery performance.
• Coordinate and schedule other PTI locations.
• Aggressively drive cost reductions and Supply Chain initiatives.
• Negotiate with suppliers the price, quality, delivery, discounts, returns, Kanban agreements, etc. in an approved and ethical manner and in compliance with company policy and government regulations.
• Ensure that purchasing activities fully support lean/visual manufacturing concept.
• Maintain efficient communication with inter-departmental personnel.

Qualifications:

APICS certification or other manufacturing/supply chain certifications

5 plus years of experience