Buyer Analyst

Join Our Team

We're looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

What You Will Experience In This Position:

• Source and develop new suppliers.
• Maintain data integrity of lead time, delivery, and cost.
• Maintain inventory levels (value and turns), reviewing demand patterns and making appropriate adjustments and recommendations for stocking levels.
• Drive cost reduction projects, coordinating with all teams.
• Coordinate legal contracts with suppliers, such as blanket orders or new supplier set up, following company guidelines.
• Identify problem areas that affect delivery or quality performance and initiate corrective action.
• Coordinate and monitor incoming air shipment cost and timelines.
• Create purchase orders for foreign/inter-company purchasing.

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field preferred. Equivalent work experience will be considered.
• 3+ years experience in purchasing, materials, production planning in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Knowledge of MRP and related systems.
• Knowledge of international shipping practices.
• Proven computer skills, including Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Outlook, JD Edwards and Business Intelligence Systems.
• Strong written, oral, and interactive communication to enable successful operation at all levels within the organization and with suppliers.
• Ability to multi-task, with excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to read and understand purchase orders, contracts, prints and specifications, drawings, BOMs, and understand both English and Metric measurements and tolerances.

We Have:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

    Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We're known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

  Benefit Overview

  At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.

  • A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan both include a company match.

  • Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

  At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.