Change the world. Love your job.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, take-charge kind of a person who enjoys negotiating with suppliers and working with top professionals in the industry. If this sounds like you, apply now for a Buyer position at Texas Instruments.
Responsibilities include:
- Coordinate purchasing activities with manufacturing, planning and engineering departments to acquire inventory in a cost effective and timely manner
- Process purchase requisitions, purchase change orders and requests for quotes to suppliers
- Work with management to address all aspects of commodity management, including procurement support commodity business plans, market trends assessment, pricing, and product availability
- Perform cost analysis and volume planning for major commodities
- Monitor the cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to negotiate the highest quality at best value
- Develop new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive
- Recommend cost saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis or alternative sourcing
- Interact closely with suppliers and Quality Assurance to resolve quality issues
- Support internal and external audits related to procurement processes and supplier management
Minimum requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred qualifications:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills
- Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
- Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
- Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
- Ability to work effectively in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
- Ability to influence opinions and gain consensus
- Strong presentation skills
- Ability to handle contracts management
- Proactive, fast learner, self-motivated, multi-tasking and performance driven
- Ability to drive projects and programs to complete them in timeline given
- High accountability in maintaining confidentiality of information
- Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
- We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
- Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us. Please find our country-specific benefits here
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams
- Initiative and drive for results
- Time management and on-time project delivery
- Ability to work in fast-paced, interrupt-driven environments
- Relationship building and influencing skills
- Presentation skills
- Contracts management
- Proactive, fast learner, self-motivated, multi-tasking
- Ability to drive projects and programs to completion
- Maintain confidentiality of information
Texas Instruments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Texas Instruments and has not been reviewed or approved by Texas Instruments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Profit sharing and annual bonuses are portrayed as a meaningful, formula-linked upside that can materially lift total earnings in strong years. An employee stock purchase plan with a discount further reinforces recurring, wealth-building incentives.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match is described as a stable core benefit, with some references to additional legacy employer contributions and even pension-like elements for certain cohorts. This framing positions long-term savings support as a notable part of the overall rewards package.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is depicted as broadly comprehensive, with preventive care and access to HSA/FSA features cited as value-adds. Company-seeded HSA contributions are repeatedly characterized as an important offset to the plan design for those enrolled.
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What We Do
Texas Instruments develops semiconductor and computer technology for cellular handsets, digital signal processors and analog semiconductors. Texas Instruments has been making progress possible for decades. We are a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips. Our more than 80,000 products help over 100,000 customers efficiently manage power, accurately sense and transmit data and provide the core control or processing in their designs, going into markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. Our passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable – opening new markets and making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. We think of this as Engineering Progress. It’s what we do and have been doing for decades. Learn more https://news.ti.com/index.cfm
