Sr. Buyer

Position Summary

Leads others in and executes the process of ordering goods, supplies, equipment, and services of all degrees of complexity in accordance with prescribed purchasing policies, regulations, and procedures.

Understands schedules, risks to orders and manages a supplier's individual order performance to requirements for orders which require greater experience or specialty knowledge to manage.

Manages commodity team purchases and performance; taking action with purchasing team to mitigate risks and improve performance.

Duties & Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL

• Reviews and analyzes purchase requisitions.
• Investigates and develops sources of supply.
• Prepares and solicits bids.
• Issues requests for quotes / information.
• Review quotations.
• Negotiates for the purchase of goods, supplies, equipment, and services.
• Prepares purchase orders and sends copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.
• Ensures the communication of technical, quality, legal, and commercial requirement sourcing information for goods and services, and facilitates the resolution of commercial, quality, and technical issues related to sourced goods, both internal and external to Oceaneering.
• Manages procurement plan and pricing strategy to support cost objectives and works to ensure delivery schedules are adequate to support project and operational needs.
• Resolves purchasing issues between OII and vendors.
• Performs administrative activities in support of the purchasing function.
• Develops and manages long-term relationships at proper levels of management with critical suppliers.
• Provide guidance to buyers in sourcing daily demands.
• Supplier relationship manager for developing and improving Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost for all suppliers as assigned.
• Ensures timely and accurate implementation / action of supplier related Engineering Change Order, and Non-Conformance Report dispositions.
• Manages and monitors the purchasing data integrity of the ERP system, including item master and purchase order data, to facilitate efficient execution of the master schedule material / procurement plan.
• Collect, segment, and evaluate key category / supplier data; acting upon supply conditions that influence total cost of ownership or place company operations at risk.
• Proactively communicate variance as it relates to budgeted or targeted cost.
• Collaborate with suppliers to assess emerging opportunities and pull technology innovations from the supply base. Facilitate technical meetings as appropriate.
• Identify new product requirements and value engineering opportunities; coordinating and marketing their introduction across business to reduce cost and improve profitability.
• Drive supplier rationalization, standardization, and cost reduction opportunities.
• Support development of more efficient execution processes with supply partners.

SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

• Develop and manage long-term relationships with critical suppliers.
• Cultivate a strong business relationship with proper level of management at suppliers.
• Lead supplier relationship management activities for respective category, including leading relationship and performance management reviews.
• Utilize SCM resources and company SMEs to facilitate the resolution of commercial, quality and technical issues in the supply base.
• Internally disseminate market intelligence obtained through business relationships.

SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

• Continually monitor supplier performance; utilizing team resources to mitigate any issues and meet specified performance targets.
• Ensure the creation and clear communication of proper technical, quality, legal and commercial requirements for product and services.
• Identify supplier risk for respective category and develop mitigation plans to alleviate potential loss to the business.
• Proactively identify, communicate, and mitigate schedule execution issues.

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• A degree in business or a technical discipline plus 5 years, or equivalent education and experience.
• Knowledge of purchasing practices and procedures, materials, products, and the commodity market in an area of specialization.

DESIRED

• Professional certificates : CPIM, CSCP, CPSM.
• Previous experience with supplier management of categories responsible for.
• Experience with value engineering and cost engineering activities.
• Previous purchasing experience in Machining and Fabrication, Hydraulics, Electrical / Electronics.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS

• Ability to work in a team environment, remaining attentive to ideas, recognizing responsibilities, and actively participating with others to accomplish assignments and achieve desired goal.
• Knowledge of department's policies, rules, regulations, business goals, vision, organizational structure, culture, philosophy, operating principles, and values, etc.
• Ability to establish and maintain project priorities.
• Identifies what needs to be done and acts before being asked or required.
• Basic knowledge of computer software such as Word and Excel.
• Be self-starting, highly organized, outgoing with excellent people skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced manufacturing environment with on-time delivery as a priority.
• Peoplesoft experience is a plus.
• Communicate concisely with all levels inside and outside the company.
• Strong mathematical skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a high-volume environment with minimum supervision.
• Have strong negotiations skills.
• Capable of understanding and interpreting CAD drawings.
• Action oriented with a record of achieving business goals.
• Strategic thinker that utilizes creative and innovative problem-solving approaches to achieve key company procurement goals
• Knowledge of purchasing and supplier management practices.
• Able to work independently with little or no supervision.
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