Puchasing/ Buyer with Experience needed immediately Job in Winston-Salem, North Carolina US
Puchasing/ Buyer with Experience needed immediately
Minimum of two to four years of progressive work related experience in a procurement role for manufacturing enterprises. Client interface skills, computer skills knowledge of manufacturing, purchasing, materials and inventory management and general stores required. Duties and Responsibilities: Coordinates with customer maintenance and other customer employees on the development and creation of purchase requistitions. Confers iwth supppliers to obtain request for quote for product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedule to meet customer needs while maximizing total cost. Maintain procurement records and update the system for new suppliers, new items and all purchasing related transactions. Daily monitoring of puchasing reports to address past due purchase orders, non compliant supplier issues, as well as purchasing and payables issues to be resolved. Assist with the development of new sources for new items setups, OEM conversions, and blueprint tooling. Create and maintain favorable customer relations, vendor relations and other relationships and provide customer responsiveness. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Ability to read and interpret operating and planning documents, purchasing forms, requistitions, safety rules, operation and procedure manuals. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where limited standardizations exists. Must have ability to utilize key board within a structured computer environment and prcedures. Intermediate literacy on persoal computer skills, and intermediate knowledge of MS Word and Excel. Ability to lift 50 lbs Ability to interperet a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.