Indirect OSP Buyer
What you'll do:
The position focuses on purchases for indirect material and services from major suppliers & strategic commodities. The position manages the assigned indirect material supply base for South Molton to ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site. Must be dedicated to maintaining strategic relationships and creating new ones within the supply base. Maintains an essential balance between supplier quality, delivery expectations, and cost reduction metrics for all indirect material purchases. Champion the assigned supply chain driven metrics and tracking.
Manages indirect material supplier relationships and opportunities for cost out and product/supplier improvement, while ensuring adequate service levels are met.
Acts and applies skillful negotiations with internal and external suppliers; conducts problem resolution and settles disputes; develops win-win solutions, and creates positive relations with tact and expert judgment.
Identifies opportunities and ensures compliance to existing corporate indirect material supply contracts for the site, increases supply chain managed spend, cost reductions, and category leverage.
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Monitors new supplier add requests and consolidates the current or new diverse supply base spend into leveraged spend categories and contracts.
Manages and maintains all assigned current supplier contacts, business relationships and commercial responsibilities for the site.
Develops and helps facilitate cost out projects and commodity strategic actions, while assisting the corporate indirect material commodity teams implement projects for the site.
Facilitates supplier questions on accounts payables and supports any necessary activity for disposition of invoice resolutions and/or payment issues.
Facilitates cross-functional collaboration with others to identify new areas of opportunity and achieve the greatest outcomes in support of strategic goals and initiatives.
Develop applicable skills in processes, and gain experience in analyzing and interpreting total cost management drivers when developing cost outsourcing strategies
Qualifications:
2+ years' experience working within a supply chain or material management function, desirably within Aerospace.
Skills:
• Possesses expert knowledge and experience in successfully developing commodity strategies, deploying sourcing initiatives, and project managing cost-out and supplier improvement programs.
• Shows track records for demonstrating leadership, and thinking and acting strategically. Demonstrated experience with commodity products and suppliers.
• Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations, SCM personnel, and external suppliers.
• Knowledgeable on ERP system operations, functions, and interfaces. Enterprise reporting systems and data mining.
• Skilled in Microsoft office applications, heavily influenced on excel.
• Knowledgeable of commercial terms, practices, contract terms and conditions in the corporate setting.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- On-Site Gym
- Pet Insurance
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Adoption Assistance Program
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- On-Site Cafeteria
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Summer Fridays
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Financial Counseling
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Internship Program
- Work Visa Sponsorship
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)