Junior Buyer in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota at NATIONAL FLOORING EQUIPMENT, LLC

Position Description

Support purchasing activities to ensure components, purchased parts, production supplies, packaging, and other operational items are ordered and delivered on time to support manufacturing operations. Work includes, but is not limited to, placing purchase orders, sourcing materials and supplies, obtaining quotes, tracking orders, selecting and communicating with suppliers, controlling inventory levels and costs, and maintaining good relationships with suppliers.

Essential Job Functions

• Work collaboratively with engineering, sales, production, and other business units to coordinate materials needed and ensure production and customer requirements are met.

• Prepare and issue purchase orders in accordance with established procedures. Revise and update purchase orders as required.

• Responsible for sourcing parts in assigned categories, including requests for quotes, analyzing quotes, and selecting suppliers.

• Manage relationships with suppliers to optimize performance.

• Facilitate setup of new suppliers, ensuring that documentation is in order, with terms and conditions being clear.

• Contact suppliers to expedite deliveries, resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.

• Perform new part setup in ERP system and QuickBooks for fields maintained by Purchasing.

• Place purchase orders for ERP system-generated requirements and SOS Inventory when requested.

• Place expense purchase orders as requested for other departments.

• Manage vendor acknowledgements, past-due orders, and change requests generated from ERP system.

• Process receipts for drop ship and subcontract purchase orders.

• Coordinate transfer of materials for vendor-to-vendor shipments and to the warehouse with established logistics partners.

• Work on Engineering changes, including communicating revisions to suppliers and updating part info as needed.

• Maintain confidentiality agreements and certificate of insurance files.

• Maintain purchasing documentation and files.

• Create and submit reports in Concur for credit card orders.

• Drive and support best practices and continuous improvement of procurement processes.

• Works closely with sales, customer service, and production on customer and production parts availability and shortage resolution as needed.

Education, Experience & Skills

• Associate’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Purchasing, or a related field of study is preferred or equivalent to 1 year of related purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Understanding of manufacturing. Working knowledge of ERP/MRP.

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, problem-solving ability, and follow-through.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Able to represent the company to suppliers at all levels of management

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and general business software. Smartsheet, QuickBooks, SOS Inventory experience preferred

• Working knowledge of ERP systems, preferably Epicor