Senior Buyer

Description

The Senior Buyer is a procurement-focused role responsible for supporting the Motion Access business by managing the current supplier base while actively identifying evaluating and developing better-priced more reliable and strategically aligned sources of supply. This position will maintain continuity with existing vendors ensure material availability for order fulfillment and aftermarket requirements and drive sourcing actions that reduce total cost improve lead times strengthen supplier performance and support domestic supply chain development to mitigate tariff exposure. The role requires strong procurement discipline supplier negotiation skills cost analysis capability market awareness and the ability to transition legacy purchasing practices into a more structured competitive and resilient supply base.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage assigned Motion Access suppliers purchase orders pricing files lead times acknowledgments backorders delivery commitments and supplier performance to ensure uninterrupted support for fulfillment service rebuild and aftermarket operations.
• Source evaluate and qualify alternate suppliers that provide improved pricing stronger delivery performance better commercial terms reduced risk or domestic supply options that support tariff mitigation and supply chain resiliency.
• Lead procurement activities including quote solicitation bid comparison cost analysis negotiation support supplier selection recommendations and documentation of sourcing decisions in alignment with business objectives.
• Develop and maintain supplier profiles covering capabilities country of origin domestic content capacity lead times payment terms freight terms quality expectations pricing history tooling ownership and supply risk factors.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate spend reduce purchase price variance improve supplier terms lower freight and expedite costs and reduce exposure to imported materials affected by tariffs or country-of-origin risk.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering Quality Operations Planning Finance Customer Service and Integration teams to ensure supplier changes substitutions resourcing actions and cost-reduction opportunities are properly reviewed before implementation.
• Support procurement of custom-designed parts electronics motor and gearbox assemblies fabricated components rebuilt units packaging technical documentation tooling-related items and other materials produced to defined specifications and quality requirements.
• Monitor supplier market conditions pricing trends tariff developments domestic sourcing opportunities long-lead constraints and potential supply disruptions that may affect Motion Access material availability or cost position.
• Maintain procurement documentation supplier correspondence quote records cost comparisons tooling records approval history and supply continuity information needed to support controlled transition into Horton systems and processes.

• Other Responsibilities
• Support knowledge transfer by documenting legacy supplier relationships purchasing practices pricing history special ordering rules part substitutions tariff exposure domestic sourcing opportunities vendor-specific requirements and procurement knowledge needed to transition Motion Access operations into Horton systems and processes.
• Participate in production materials sourcing integration and cost-reduction meetings to communicate supplier risks sourcing actions pricing opportunities expediting priorities and material constraints.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Periodically attend relevant purchasing seminars.

Qualifications

• Requires 57 years of purchasing strategic sourcing procurement supplier management materials planning or supply chain experience preferably in a manufacturing metal-mechanical electronics automatic door access solutions aftermarket parts or construction-related environment.
• Bachelors degree in Business Administration Supply Chain Management Operations Logistics Engineering or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent practical experience in purchasing supplier management production support inventory control or ERP/MRP execution may be substituted for formal education.
• CPM CPSM APICS/ASCM Lean or related supply chain certification preferred.
• Experience sourcing alternate suppliers negotiating pricing evaluating domestic supply options mitigating tariff exposure supporting supplier transitions and maintaining controlled procurement documentation is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Strong procurement skill set including supplier negotiation quote analysis cost comparison sourcing strategy supplier qualification and total-cost evaluation.
• Ability to balance current-state vendor management with proactive sourcing of better-priced suppliers domestic supply alternatives and supplier-risk mitigation actions.
• Working knowledge of tariffs country-of-origin considerations supplier terms freight impacts capacity constraints and procurement levers that affect total landed cost.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems; Oracle experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to review purchase history supplier performance pricing changes inventory requirements lead times shortages expediting priorities and sourcing opportunities.
• Ability to maintain accurate supplier tooling pricing quote part tariff country-of-origin and procurement documentation records with high attention to detail.
• Comfortable operating in an environment where legacy processes tribal knowledge and incomplete documentation must be converted into controlled business processes.

Work Environment

This role operates primarily in an office and manufacturing-support environment and requires frequent interaction with production warehouse engineering quality customer service suppliers and integration teams. The position may require periodic visits to production warehouse shipping/receiving supplier or transition locations to validate material flow inventory supplier practices tooling and operational documentation.

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status.

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