Senior Buyer Strategic Sourcing

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: 

• Communicate with, evaluate, and approve suppliers to ascertain their ability to meet company requirements, goals, and objectives.
• Negotiate prices, discounts, and delivery arrangements with suppliers.
• Address long lead-time components through Blanket Orders, Supplier stocking programs or pre-buys as applicable.
• Perform on-going reviews of product, service, equipment, and expense usage to identify new opportunities for cost savings.
• Effective use of historical and other benchmarking data to ensure competitive pricing.
• Manage cost containment, product standardization, supplier consolidation and benchmarking reports, and other supply chain management strategies that maximize value while ensuring that ATS standards are maintained or enhanced.
• Act as a key resource for ATS staff by assisting in the research and development of products, service and equipment alternatives, initiation and follow-up of evaluations, requests for quotation and other day to day procurement.
• Prepares reports and data as required.
• Review part blueprints understand type of subcontract work required and choose optimal sub-contract suppliers.
• Establish preliminary Procurement Plan for new business opportunities to exceed budgeted material cost targets.
• Assist Senior & Intermediate Buyers with special projects and/or tasks as required.
• Advise and achieve lowest cost compliant solutions.
• Maintain favorable Terms and Conditions for ATS.
• Understand the product from initial concept and provide early input regarding ease and cost of supply.
• Maintain a focus on vendor capacities to enable low-cost design and facilitate a collaborative working relationship between Design Engineers and Suppliers.
• Maintain and communicate market trend data.
• Proactively maintain a funnel of opportunities specific to custom equipment and evaluate market capacity.
• Regular monitoring and contributions to an Approved Supplier list based on capability and performance.
• Engage suppliers early in the project life to gain their appropriate input into product solutions.
• Support the development of engineering design methodology from a Supply Chain perspective to ensure successful execution through the supply chain.
• Maintain a preferred parts list and use it to drive selection of common parts and design features across multiple projects.
• Create and negotiate various contracts with selected suppliers while exhibiting strong negotiating skills.
• Drive continuous improvement and supplier development with respect to commodity differentiation, quality, service, and cost.
• Interface with divisional and corporate supply chain personnel and other stakeholders regarding vendor performance, cost savings, and cost increases.
• Identify and assist with Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VA/VE) initiatives to drive continuous improvement and cost optimization.

Qualifications

Education

• A post-secondary diploma or degree in materials management or equivalent.
• Supply Chain Canada (or equivalent) designation is an asset.
• Manufacturing or Engineering education or experience is an asset.

Experience

• 3 – 5 years subcontract machined build to print subcontract purchasing experience.
• Sound working knowledge of MS Office software (Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, Teams).
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office software including Excel - pivot tables & VLOOKUP + Power Point – presentations.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings is a requirement for this position.
• Proven organizational and negotiation skills.
• Excellent oral, interpersonal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated problem solving and continuous improvement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives on a cross functional team
• Demonstrated strong analytical, organizational, exercise sound judgment and work without direct supervision in a team environment.
• Utilize proven project management skills.
• Highly motivated, customer-focused team player and innovator.