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Buyer (PRP26407)

General Role Description

Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service and to meet commercial

requirements

Role Accountabilities

- Bring Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved

- Research new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company’s quality system

- Identify and recommend new suppliers to develop globally to support business unit needs and lower costs

- Negotiate with assigned suppliers to achieve lower material costs and on time delivery

- Gather data to manage performance evaluation of assigned product’s supplier and submit to manager

- Gather data to negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements with suppliers, as requested

- Recommend risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to Sourcing Manager to present to business units

- Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and prepare for supplier recovery activities

- Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer’s report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority

- Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management

- Notify expeditors of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP

- Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products

- Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions

- Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers

- Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department

- Notify finance department of new “ship-to” locations of suppliers

- Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist

- Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner

- Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management

- Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company

General Employee Accountabilities

- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

- Give manager best advice

- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

- Recommend viable improvements proactively

- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Requirements

  • - Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience
  • - 2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment
  • - 1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers
  • - Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
  • - Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
  • - Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
  • - Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and ERP
  • - Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

- 1 year of experience negotiating agreements

- Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment

- Advanced Excel skills

- Proficiency in Oracle

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website: . To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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What this application asks

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First name, Last name, Email, Phone, Address, Summary, Resume, How did you hear about us?, Please specify Employee Name, Recruiter/Agency or Other, Experience, Did you provide completed information for all previous employers, during at least the last 84 months and at least the last 3 employers, whichever is longer, including self-employment, military service, summer, and part-time jobs. Please list the specific duties that are most applicable to the position for which you are applying. Please explain any gap in employment that exceeds 1 months, for example "attending school." Please do not indicate "See Resume.", Reason for leaving or job search?, What is your required annual compensation?, Education, What is your highest level of degree achieved?, Cover letter, Are you at least 18 years old?, Are you legally eligible to work in the United States?, Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship to legally work in the U.S.?, Do you have any relatives currently working for TMEIC Corporation? If yes, provide their names in the second field below., Relative Details, Were you ever employed by TMEIC (including previous company names), Toshiba, Mitsubishi, or affiliated business? If yes, provide previous employment details of Business Name, Location and Dates in the second field below., Previous Employment Details, Are you currently subject to a non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality, anti-piracy, or other employment agreement and/ or restriction with any employer?, If yes, please explain your work restrictions, State any additional information you feel may be helpful to us in considering your application. This could include any specialized training or courses you have completed that will aid in evaluating your qualifications for the position you are seeking., I understand that TMEIC Corporation Americas, hereinafter referred to as “the Company,” requires certain information about me to evaluate my qualifications for employment and to conduct its business if I become an employee. Therefore, I authorize the Company to investigate my past employment, educational credentials, or any other information I provide as to the application process to the extent allowed by law. I agree to cooperate in such investigations and, to the extent allowed by law, release those parties supplying such information to the Company as well as the Company and its employees from all liability or responsibility with respect to the information supplied. I agree that the Company may use the information it obtains concerning me in the conduct of its business, including disclosure outside the Company where such information is needed for business purposes. I understand, however, that except as allowed or required to be disclosed by applicable law, the Company intends to protect the confidentiality of personal information it obtains concerning me to the extent practicable. I agree that I will not disclose or use while interviewing with or employed with the Company any confidential or proprietary information of others, including any former employer. I understand that an offer of employment made by the Company will be conditioned upon your providing the documentation required by law as evidence of your personal identity and your authorization to work in the United States. Any offer of employment is also conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation, a post-offer physical evaluation, if applicable, and a drug screen. I understand that any employment with the Company is at-will and would not be for any fixed period of time and that, if employed, I may resign at any time, for any reason, or the Company may terminate my employment at any time for any reason in the absence of a specific written agreement to the contrary if signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. I understand that any false or incomplete answers or statements made by me on this application, any supplement thereto, or in connection with the above-mentioned investigations may be grounds for refusal of employment or, if employed, may result in immediate discharge. I understand that this application will only be considered for the position for which I am seeking employment. By signing your digital signature below, you agree that you have reviewed this statement and understand and agree to its contents.

  • -   Do you have a Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience   yes / no
  • -   Do you have 2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment   yes / no
  • -  Do you have 1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers   yes / no
  • -   Are you able to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice  yes / no

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