We love your attention to detail!
We’re looking for a thorough Senior Buyer to partner with internal teams and support customer needs.
Why TricorBraun
TricorBraun is a global packaging leader, with team members working in locations throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. As North America’s largest distributor of primary packaging, we provide innovative solutions to customers from a wide variety of industries. Our customers range from innovative start-ups to the world’s most iconic brands. We put people first and live by that every day. Join us and our friendly, motivated and supportive team will welcome you. Many of the products we distribute are already sitting in your home.
Your role
Your key goal is forecasting, demand planning and sourcing of inventory over multiple vendors and driving strategic relationships with those vendors. In addition, the Senior Buyer is responsible for performing market analysis and making purchasing recommendations to the management team which allow the company to meet customer demand in the timeframe that customers desire.
Your background and experience
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Develops purchasing forecasts at both the macro and micro level using a combination of historical data, booked demand and growth or decline information
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Performs market analysis and makes purchasing recommendations based on market trends.
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Manages stock items to stay ahead of demand curve.
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Leads inventory levels to keep inventory value down and turns up.
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Communicates pricing and availability of purchased items with outside sales teams and internal support teams.
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Prepares Excel workbooks, assigns pre-work to teams, collects feedback and integrates data, prepares Power Point, facilitates meetings, documents notes and assigns follow-up, etc. for each meeting
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Conducts statistical forecasting for stocking SKU’s and evaluate demand trends
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Conducts inventory analysis to develop proposed target levels and identify supply gaps
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Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
How we’ll support you
It all starts with an exceptional training program spanning classroom, online, and hands-on collaboration with other consultants. You will learn our business, our industry, the sales process, where to gain leads, how to best utilize our database, and how customer cycles work. Your base of operation will be the staffed office closest to your territory. Because we’re a people first company, you can expect even more.
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Comprehensive compensation package
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Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits
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Retirement plan with match
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Unlimited advancement opportunity
We are proudly an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications.
Top Skills
What We Do
As one of the largest purchasers of packaging in the world, we leverage our vast purchasing power, access, and scale to identify the best sourcing partners and provide cost-effective solutions for our customers. From rigid to flexible packaging, stock and custom options, and the countless options of materials, industries and markets served, our range of packaging options sets us apart.
At TricorBraun, everything we do starts and ends with our customer.
From healthcare to food and beverage, home care to personal care, animal health to wine, beer and spirits― we help brands solve their complex packaging problems with an unmatched level of expertise and consumer insight. We serve consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies across markets, from cutting-edge start-ups to the world’s most iconic brands.
TricorBraun strives to be the Best Place for the Best People in Packaging. Our more than 2,000 passionate and knowledgeable team members are highly-committed and laser-focused on doing what we do best: developing packaging solutions to help our customers win.
