Purchasing Buyer, Senior

The Senior Buyer is responsible for leading and executing advanced tactical procurement activities to ensure timely material availability and support daily production requirements. This role focuses on hands-on supplier management, issue resolution, detailed purchasing execution, and continuous improvement within the buying process. The Senior Buyer serves as the primary escalation point for delivery, quality, or communication issues and provides guidance and support to Buyers.
Tactical Procurement Leadership:

Executes daily purchasing activities with a high degree of accuracy, urgency, and ownership.
Ensures supplier acknowledgements, ship dates, and quantity updates are accurately reflected in the ERP system.
Monitors and reacts to MRP messages, adjusting orders to support changing production needs.
Work with Strategic Commodity Manager to place POs with Milacron Preferred Suppliers and make decisions based on Cost, lead time, and quality when needed.
Investigate and fix data where needed on POs.
Acts as the primary escalation point for supplier delays, quality issues, or inaccurate confirmations.
Performs advanced expediting to resolve material shortages and protect production schedules.
Coordinates with Supplier Quality on non-conformances, RMAs, and repeat issues.
Assess supplier overall performance with Global Commodity Managers and make recommendations regarding suppliers' ability to meet Quality, Delivery, and Cost needs.
OTD, Inventory & Material Flow Performance:
Owns day-to-day supplier On-Time Delivery (OTD) performance and drives corrective actions.
Monitors inventory health, including safety stock, open POs, and slow-moving materials.
Identifies material risks early and implements mitigation steps to prevent production downtime.
Reviews forecasts and planned orders to support accurate supplier planning.
Provides daily communication to Operations, Scheduling, and Logistics on material status.
Resolves shipping discrepancies, freight issues, and packaging concerns.
Supports OpSys alignment and part structure accuracy.
Ensure Part Lead times are correct in JDE.
Process Ownership & Continuous Improvement
Identifies and recommends improvements to purchasing processes and expediting workflows.
Supports standardization of procurement tools, reports, and tracking methods.
Participates in short-term problem-solving activities with suppliers (A3, 8D, root-cause reviews).
Follow and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures as necessary.
Coaching & Team Support
Assists in training new hires in purchasing processes and ERP/MRP execution.
Works with team to develop and execute category strategies in partnership with Strategic teams.
Works with Strategic team and Quality for supplier scorecard reviews and corrective action planning, along with risk management.
Bachelor's degree required.

• 5-7 years of purchasing or supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong supplier management and tactical procurement experience.
• Milacron is a global industrial leader in the manufacturing and distribution of highly engineered and customized injection molding and extrusion solutions, and aftermarket parts and service for the plastics processing industry. The company's 1,900+ associates worldwide collaborate to serve a diverse range of end-markets, such as automotive, construction, medical, telecommunications, material handling, packaging, and much more. With expertise in plastics spanning nearly 60 years, Milacron holds longstanding relationships with more than 27,000 customers around the world. The original equipment provider of plastics manufacturing solutions is the largest US-owned and globally served of its kind. Headquartered in Batavia, OH, Milacron's global footprint is also serviced through regional facilities in Asia, Europe, and South America.

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