Fender Musical Instruments Corporation · 8 hours ago

Sr. Buyer

Corona, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$85K/yr - $105K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Partner with materials management team to ensure on-time purchasing of raw materials and components, as well as stabilizing days-of-stock for category suppliers

Research, analyze, and compile data to determine how to deal with plant suppliers strategically, mitigate risk, and prevent supply constraints to the production floor

Management of supplier relationships, supplier agreements, and compliance

Place demand driven purchase orders and expedite purchased parts delivery to meet production line requirements

Managing open purchase orders to ensure suppliers are delivering to confirmed lead times for orders

Negotiate long-term agreements with suppliers to include expectations, performance-based incentives, pricing models, and rebates

Initiate and implement key value creation and savings initiatives that provide predictable and sustainable impact to margin year-over-year

Partner with cross-functional teams (Planning, NPI, R&D, Marketing, Supply Chain, etc.) to identify suppliers based on new product requirements

Develop and implement analysis to support and communicate forecasts of parts driven by production order

Provide analytical support for sourcing activities by performing spend analysis, feasibility analysis, cost/benefit analysis and process analysis

Additional duties as assigned

Qualification

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Sourcing & ProcurementForecasting ModelsSAPMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointBilingual English / SpanishSupply Chain

Required

6+ years of experience in a Buyer position, preferably Sourcing & Procurement in a Manufacturing environment

Experience with planning is a must

Ability to successfully negotiate with suppliers on behalf of the company

Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple suppliers, identify down-stream risks, reconcile conflicts, provide root-cause analysis, and decompose high-level information into details

Experience with various forecasting models and communicating deviations from forecasted demand to suppliers

Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

BS in Supply Chain or related field