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Position will have a portfolio of commodities and suppliers assigned and is responsible to meet parts cost, quality and availability objectives. Position is responsible to identify, develop, source, and manage foreign or domestic suppliers for production within department guidelines for supplier consolidation, on time delivery and cost reduction.\n\nEssential Functions:\nProcure parts and materials necessary to support production business requirements at optimum efficiency and pricing.\nPerform a wide range of procurement duties involving all types of parts, components, and materials for assigned commodities.\nManage all supplier contracts and assist to administer best pricing strategies for all purchase materials and suppliers and analyze all new issue in materials and recommend strategies to improve quality and manage inventory levels for all products.\nInterface between engineers, finance, quality, marketing, and suppliers. Requires the ability to supply, receive and understand instructions conveyed through blueprints and/or sketches of parts, requisitions, verbal or written communication.\nServe as liaison with finance to assist in the solution of invoice problems.\nDevelop and achieve cost savings plans and ideas in conjunction with current suppliers and seek new opportunities with potential new suppliers.\nAssist production in inventory availability and quality problems with suppliers.\nMay assist aftermarket in sourcing parts for old catalogue of trucks and components.\nEvaluate new sources of supply and be able to identify and qualify their processes and capabilities to provide cost effective, quality-proven components, processes, or services.\nIdentify potential suppliers by reviewing previous domestic and foreign suppliers. Involve quality competitive suppliers early in the design cycle.\nSend and receive quote request forms to and from potential suppliers.\nProcess Engineering Change Requests to document cost improvement ideas submitted by suppliers. Identify savings, tooling investment and provide a detailed description of the change for engineering review. \nProcess all Engineering Change Notices to suppliers and negotiate pricing, tooling impact and delivery as required. Lead the effort to maintain cost target.\nAssist in value analysis processes which involves costing parts by reviewing the existing manufacturing processes, competitor processes, new technology and other alternatives to reduce cost.\n\nBasic Qualifications:\nFour-year degree with experience as a buyer in a manufacturing operation or in a related specialty field \nMust have detailed knowledge of purchasing policies, procedures and principles.\nAbility to provide detailed price analysis and recommendations and project reports to management as requested. \nKnowledge of import/export issues and skilled in negotiating tactics.\nKnowledge of pricing of raw materials, labor rates, and manufacturing costs\nStrong organization and documentation skills\nStrong research and analytical skills\nCritical thinking and the ability to be action-oriented.\nAbility to read and understand blueprints, bills of materials, formal engineering change processes, supplier processes, pricing structure/policies and Uniform Commercial Code\nProficient in MS Office including Outlook, Excel, Word\nProficient in using ERP software in manufacturing environment.\nAbility to communicate effectively and professionally with others through clear, concise writing, telephone usage and presentation skills.\nCPIM certification, or other APICS certification.\nMust be authorized to work indefinitely in the U.S. \nMust be available for periodic business travel to supplier locations.\n\nDisclaimer:\nThis position description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job; it is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal job elements essential to the job. Incumbents may be required to perform other duties as assigned or as required by the needs of the business. 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