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About this job

An aerospace manufacturing company is looking to hire Buyer's for contract opportunities.

  • Pay Rate: $28.00 - $32.00 based on experience
  • Contract Opportunity
  • First Shift Opportunity: 8:00AM - 4:30PM
  • Medical , Dental, Vision Benefits

Acts as an authorized agent who reviews purchase requisitions, solicits quotations, and places orders for procurement of goods and services up to authorized levels. Awards purchase orders for goods and services to suppliers subject to supervisory approval. This individual is responsible for the purchase of lower dollar and non critical items. Analyzes purchases of goods and services for opportunities to leverage spend, reduce inventories and lower total cost of acquisition with supervisor. Interprets and enforces contracts terms and conditions. The position involves a high degree of interface with the Procurement Supervisor on purchase order awards, priorities and project assignments.

Tactical/ Administrative Duties & Responsibilities

  1. Reviews all purchase requisitions for completeness and initiates action on requirements
  2. Returns requisitions to users that require additional information or budget approval.
  3. Identifies requisitions that can be placed directly on LTAs or other existing contract agreements.
  4. Monitors requisitions to identify commonly purchased items that would be candidates for volume agreements, LTAs, MOUs or Price Agreements and makes recommendations to the purchasing supervisor.
  5. Prepares and obtains quotations from qualified suppliers.
  6. Reviews bids, negotiates more favorable prices and terms, and selects suppliers subject to supervisor approval.
  7. Minimizes purchase order discrepancies through coordination with accounting and receiving departments to resolve invoice discrepancies, shipping errors and hold code problems.
  8. Provides high levels of customer service to both internal users and Italian headquarters through communications, concerning supplier delivery schedules, quality and service levels.
  9. Reduces process cycle times by providing rapid response to internal customers and headquarters needs via shorter turnaround time on purchase orders.
  10. Complies with all purchasing policies, procedures and processes.

Strategic Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Identifies and recommends new suppliers.
  2. Identifies and defines supplier problems, makes recommendations to supervisor and implements agreed upon solutions.
  3. Identifies and defines internal process problems, makes recommendations to supervisor and implements agreed upon solutions.
  4. Utilizes supplier scorecards to manage and evaluate supplier performance. Periodically presents results to supervisor and jointly develops improvement plans.

Education

  • BA/BS in Business, Engineering or related area preferred. May substitute comparable experience for education.

Experience

  • 2-5 years of experience in purchasing, supply chain, or closely related field.
  • May substitute education for years of experience.

Competencies & Attributes

  1. Strong written and oral communication skills
  2. Ability to develop supplier relationships
  3. Working knowledge of SAP
  4. Basic understanding of negotiation principles
  5. Compliant to company and professional ethical policies and standards
  6. Self-motivated and achievement oriented
  7. Able to work under pressure and meet customer deadlines
  8. Ability to think creatively in proposing changes to current processes
  9. Ability to work in a team based environment
  10. Ability to identify and monitor supplier risk
  11. Well-organized and flexible to changes in schedules
  12. Intercultural awareness
  13. Competency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  14. Good understanding of aviation technology and regulations

Licensure/Certification

  • ISM certifications such as CPSM or C.P.M. or APICS certification such as CPIM or CSCP Preferred.




About Aerotek:

Our people are everything. As a Best of Staffing® Client and Talent leader, Aerotek® Inc. has distinguished itself as a leader in recruiting and staffing services, by having a deep understanding of the intersection of talent and business. As a strategic partner to more than 17,000 clients and 300,000 contract employees every year, Aerotek's people-focused approach yields competitive advantages for its clients and rewarding careers for its contract employees. Headquartered in Hanover, Md., Aerotek operates a network of over 230 non-franchised offices with more than 6,000 internal employees dedicated to serving our customers. Aerotek is an operating company of Allegis Group, a global talent solutions provider. To learn more, visit .

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