The Role
The Buyer is responsible for meeting procurement goals by managing supplier relationships, negotiating pricing, and ensuring competitive costs. Key tasks include processing purchase orders, resolving discrepancies, monitoring key purchasing metrics, tracking orders, and supporting manufacturing and customer service. The role involves strategic purchase order issuance to ensure product continuity and identifying cost improvement opportunities.
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General Summary
To meet procurement goals, interact with suppliers and professionally represent the company.
- Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers and negotiate pricing and supply agreements as directed by Management for material and services.
- Review existing supplier pricing to ensure costs are competitive within the market.
- Evaluate procurement data and monitor key purchasing metrics.
- Process Purchase orders and scheduling for daily outsourced manufacturing services and MRO product. Initiate expedites of supplier services as directed by Production Manager.
- Issue and schedule purchase orders strategically to ensure continuity of purchased product
- Conduct periodic supplier visits to assess their service through supplier surveys and audits in conjunction with the Director of Quality.
- Resolve discrepancies with supplier invoices and purchase orders.
- Provide competitive position information/feedback to the company as identified through supplier interaction.
- Track open orders for on-time delivery.
- Identify cost improvement opportunities and recommend to CPI management.
- Support Customer Service and Manufacturing with inventory management of purchased goods.
- Support sales by obtaining quotations from suppliers for inclusion in customer quote submissions.
- Assist in developing bills of material for customer quotations.
- Identify and source suppliers as needed for new customer requirements.
- Backup for Customer Service/Supplier Coordinator handling customer orders, order entries, communication and coordination with various Cast Products department managers to resolve customer issues on delivery, quality, pricing and sudden changes in customer requirements.
- Interact with Maintenance to support purchase of supplies and capital used in manufacturing.
- Support new projects through the understanding of material, services, cost and lead-time.
- Interact with Engineering for technical and process details required for quotations.
- Interact with CPI Management for cost improvement reporting.
- Interact with IT for support on capital purchases.
- Support manufacturing with inventory management of purchased goods.
- Identify key industry opportunities for cost improvements.
Salary: $57,120 to $86,160
The Company
What We Do
The driving force behind market-leading brands and products, NSI’s primary job for over 45 years has been to fulfill the needs of distributors. By staying grounded in the principles of service and value, NSI continues to deliver high-quality, industry-advancing, and comprehensive product solutions.
NSI has many well-respected brands, including Bridgeport Fittings®, Polaris®, TORK®, and WarriorWrap®, and we’re still growing.
