Buyer/Planner
Valco Companies
- Coldwater, OH
- $51,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manages the assigned vendor relationships with regards to the purchase of goods and or services for manufacturing purposes
- Coordinate with Engineering to ensure that suppliers have been identified and approved for all items/commodities.
- Recommend new processes or systems for improvement. Implement new ideas and strategies.
- Negotiate competitive pricing with a multitude of vendors.
- Identify potential supply issues and their impact to production and customer orders, escalating to appropriate levels of management, when necessary
- Remain current on quality issues, supply issues, and customer orders that require a shift in production needs.
- Analysis data using excel.
- Actively participate in the effort to reduce on hand inventory by monitoring open commitments and rescheduling where necessary.
- The employee is also responsible for all other reasonable duties assigned by their supervisor.
- Minimum of an Associate degree or 5 years in the Procurement field preferred
- Working experience in inventory control, purchasing, and planning functions in a manufacturing environment is highly desirable.
- Demonstrate basic to intermediate skill proficiency using Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, and Outlook. Additional data base management skills and experience are a plus.
- Must have the ability to work collaboratively in an aggressive and fast-paced environment.
- Strong communicator
- Knowledge of lean concepts including Kanban and visual inventory, are preferred.
- Aggressive, driven individual with demonstrated problem solving capabilities and the willingness to take ownership of the process.
- Able to develop and utilize the basic tools to assist in management.
- Experience with MRP systems preferred.
- Experience in steel or other commodities strongly preferred.
- International business background strongly preferred.
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short Term Disability Insurance
- Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) Company Match
- Generous Vacation Schedule