Buyer

AP Professionals is partnering with an amazing local company in search of a Buyer. As a Supply Chain Professional, the Buyer independently develops excellent professional relationships and service levels with all customers while ensuring accurate contracts, pricing integrity, compliance, financial reporting, and high ethical standards are continually maintained. The Buyer compiles necessary information and takes independent action to procure supplies, inventory, equipment, and services including but not limited to capital equipment, contracted services.

• Develops and maintains expertise for assigned sourcing commodities and territories.
• Researches marketplace and studies market trends to stay abreast of changes to supplier or product offerings.
• Ensures professional relationships are cultivated with customers and suppliers while maintaining the highest of ethical standards.
• Ownership of supplier relations for assigned territories which includes but is not limited to ensuring supplier adherence to protocols, ethical standards, uninterrupted supply of inventory as ordered, etc.
• Monitors, and reconciles purchase orders and returns; confirms pricing, availability, and lead time in accordance with departmental standards.
• Upholds contract integrity by ensuring contracted pricing is consistently adhered to on purchase orders and invoices.
• Territory responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Relationship building; customized business relationship based on customer feedback; ownership of all activities involved in ensuring exceptional service levels.
• Reviews open orders, communicates back orders to customers, closes open lines that are no longer valid, updates purchase orders for firm delivery dates ensuring communication trail is maintained within purchase order for tracking and follow up.
• Maintains contract integrity by ensuring that confirmed PO price and invoice price are in alignment with contracted pricing.
• Accurately and efficiently supports system maintenance by entering information into ERP following established protocol.
• Ensures pricing is correct versus contract, performs necessary analytics when different, works with sales rep, and when necessary communicates unresolved problems.
• Ensures invoice discrepancies are resolved timely according to established protocol.
• Communicates credit holds to invoice resolution team as needed
• Maintains, or exceeds, standards of compliance for service and purchasing standards as measured on individual report card.
• Assists team members as necessary to ensure departmental coverage and support.
• Performs other related duties as necessary to support the department and organization.

• Bachelors Degree required

• Relevant progressively responsible procurement experience
• Supply Chain Management Operations Knowledge
• MMIS / ERP Application Proficiency
• Proficient in all applications of Microsoft Office