Career Opportunity - Buyer/Planner

Planner/Buyer

Status:                  Permanent, Full Time – Alameda California

Reports to:         Vice-President, Global Operations

Role Overview

The Planner/Buyer is responsible for coordinating material planning, contract manufacturing, purchasing, and production scheduling functions to ensure on-time delivery of finished products. Experience working in an electronic assembly environment is an asset. 

Responsibilities:

• Initiates the timely and cost-effective purchase of materials and services to comply with quality and delivery standards
• Ensures compliance with purchasing policies and procedures and promotes good purchasing behavior.
• Troubleshoots discrepancies of purchase orders, requisitions, supplier deliveries, prices, and quality.
• Manage product manufacturing locations and accounts for efficiency and performance
• Works with Fishbowl to monitor contract manufacturing and on hands-on orders
• Monitor and report Contract Manufacturing production plan attainment
• Creates and maintains reporting requirements and maintains reporting between Contract Manufacturers and Contract and Design.
• Daily interface with engineering, production, vendors, and contract manufacturers for open orders
• Uses Fishbowl MRP system to review, manage, and control inventory
• Prepares and issues reports to keep internal customers informed of critical trends or issues
• Builds positive supplier relationships and works to resolve issues to minimize or avoid negative impact to production
• Compares and verifies purchase orders against forecasted raw material, components, and related requirements to ensure adequate supplies are ordered for production
• Resolves finished goods invoice discrepancies
• Examines trends related to discrepancies in order quantity, price, and late deliveries to evaluate supplier performance
• Responsible for communicating business related issues or opportunities to upper management
• Manages the phase-in of new products to minimize obsolete material inventory
• Monitors supply chain management standard operating procedures. Recommends changes and improvements to procedures
• Supervises procurement activities and maintains priorities to expedite, including the availability of raw material, receipt of materials, the release and movement of products to production
• Validates and maintains scheduling and planning parameters, i.e. lead times, lot sizes, etc.)
• Demand Planning for forecast development internally and externally (suppliers and customers)
• Coordinate STO processes to maintain on-time and complete metrics
• Reviews monthly Supply SOP process and identifies raw material supply risks
• Able to evaluate data and create meaningful metrics reports

Qualifications:

• BS degree (or equivalent) in Supply Chain Management, Engineering or related field. MS degree is a plus. Work experience instead of a degree may be considered
• 3+ years of production planning or Supply Chain experience
• Experience in an electronics manufacturing environment considered an asset
• Strong understanding of the principles of material planning requirements and inventory
• Skilled in automated purchasing/MRP systems within ERP, specifically SAP, Fishbowl etc.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, proficient with Word and PowerPoint

Qualities:

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrates accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to communicate concisely and clearly both orally and in writing
• Sense of initiative, energy, and enthusiasm
• Team player who can step in and help drive strategy
• Embraces PACED (Passionate, Agile, Collaborative, Entrepreneur, Diversity) core values.

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