Overview of the Position:

The Buyer is responsible for strategic sourcing, supplier selection, supplier performance, and inventory management for assigned product lines and suppliers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is stocking strategy execution (availability of product)
• Analyze and negotiate favorable payment terms, pricing, and delivery for parts assigned.
• Manage assigned parts to ensure maximum inventory turns and minimum inventory levels.
• Research, recommend, and negotiate best practice procurements.
• Team with Product Management to facilitate supplier selection through competitive bidding, leveraging business acumen and relationships, sourcing analysis, and negotiation skills.
• Act as a liaison between vendors and product managers to make critical investment decisions regarding inventory levels, product availability, market pricing, and unit costs.
• Continuously investigate and develop new competitive sources of supply for commercial and military aircraft parts.
• Check for common part buys with other contracts, open bids and sister companies.
• Inventory Management including performing physical counts of raw materials, hardware & components, and finished goods.
• Work with Production Staff & Managers to ensure practice of FIFO in regards to inventory consumption. Track usage of all inventory in required applications.
• Prepare and analyze accurate reports on COGS, inventory levels, anticipated purchases, etc. as required.
• Prepare Traveler packages per processed Sales Orders and Change Requests, and occasionally review, accept, and process Sales Order packages and Change Requests.
• Develop and negotiate LTA's (Long Term Agreements) that provide increased value to Wencor (reduces/contains cost, increases inventory turns, reduces lead-time, and increases quality and on-time delivery).
• Perform system downloads to analyze purchasing data.
• Perform on-site supplier capability audits.
• Update MRP system with lead times, catalog codes, and preferred vendors.
• Handle order management, which includes, but not limited to, placing PO's, entering quotes, updating lead-times, expediting and de-expediting deliveries, and communicating updates to internal customers.
• Review and contact vendors with their on-time delivery performance
• Do part to complete Quality Deficient Notice; procuring, RMA, and deciding if replacement or credit will be needed.
• Stay in close contact with sales in regards to price increase, lead time, ppl, and other information.
• On occasion negotiate freight responsibilities with the customers
• Manage and improve supplier performance, by engaging suppliers monthly to meet Quality, Delivery, Lead-time, and Cost goals.
• Perform other functions and duties as needed and/or assigned.

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Professional certifications, such as CPM, are preferred.
• Negotiation skills
• Analytical Skills -- understand and calculate price breaks
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and ERP is a must
• Understand the products, applications, and platforms of key portfolio products
• Understand market pricing and competitor offerings (to ensure purchasing at best prices)