Buyer, Waukesha WI

Buyer

This position is responsible for purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment, and supplies from vendors for one or more of the Terex Utilities product lines. Requires evaluating vendor quotes and services to determine most desirable suppliers. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the manufacturing procurement field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals to perform a variety of tasks.

What you'll do:

• Works with operations, planning and organizing all tasks.
• Participate in supplier quality activities such as corrective action completion.
• Works with best total cost solutions. May coordinate and negotiate contracts with the expectation of providing purchase price reductions and establishing purchase pricing.
• Review purchase request for material via MRP or manual purchase requisition.
• Input Purchase order data via Oracle (MRP, Direct-Link, Kanban, demand).
• Monitor purchase orders to maintain delivery schedules.
• As applicable, must be able to expedite critical components and overdue purchase orders.
• Resolve supplier problems associated with over shipments, invoicing issues, obsolete, rework and scrap material.
• Must be able to develop excellent working relationship with both internal and external customers as well as suppliers.
• Maintain supplier relationships in order to drive cost reductions while continually achieving the highest level of quality material.
• Manage purchase price variance monthly.
• Review, analyze and interpret various reports.
• Be a strong team player with ability to work effectively on cross-functional projects.
• Ability or willingness to learn to read engineering blueprints or any relevant technical documents.
• Moderate technical understanding of assigned commodities.

Key Job Tasks:

• Procurement: Buying responsibility for one or more of the Terex Utilities product lines
• Ability to maintain Kanban's and/or issuing PO and utilizing MRP systems to manage purchase transactions.
• Material Management: Maintain inventory levels for area of responsibility

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in procurement, supply chain, business, operations
• 2 years' experience in a purchasing, buyer, or material planner role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in MRP(oracle) system.
• APICS seasoned purchaser in related field preferred.
• Internship at fortune 500 company manufacturing capital equipment/industrial products in/for agricultural, automotive, or general industries.
• Engineer to order environment and low volume/high mix purchasing experience, including MRO and production materials purchasing exp.
• Ability to interface with company and supplier senior management.
• Technical purchasing and out-sourcing skills.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize work, and work closely with other departments.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the procurement field.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals to perform a variety of tasks.
• Ability to research and identify new suppliers.
• Project Management experience.
• Ability to read engineering prints.
• Lean experience or knowledge is a plus.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and demanding environment.
• Proficient computer skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook).

Salary: The salary range for this position is $72,000 - $80,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to a base salary, this position is eligible for a performance bonus. All eligible Team Members will be offered health insurance (medical, dental, vision, Rx), life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), short-term and long-term disability, extended leave options, paid time off, company holidays, 401k matching, employee stock purchase plan, legal assistance, wellness programs, tuition reimbursement and discount programs.