# Purchasing Planning Specialist

Position Summary Support purchasing planning, KPI management, cost and budget analysis, monthly closing, and purchasing process and system improvements. Collect and consolidate data across purchasing functions to provide accurate management reports, HQ reporting materials, and audit support.Role and Responsibilities 1) Support annual purchasing operating plans and cost-reduction targets by collecting and consolidating inputs from each purchasing function. 2) Maintain purchasing procedures and guidelines, track revisions, and support process-compliance reviews. 3) Support N-ERP improvements, user training, and purchasing master-data accuracy, including item codes and price information. 4) Consolidate purchasing KPIs, including cost savings and on-time delivery, and coordinate monthly closing data and reports. 5) Monitor raw-material market trends and finished-product cost impacts; support purchasing budget preparation and spending reviews. 6) Monitor supplier registration and evaluation, and support supply-risk, alternative-source, fair-trade, and due-diligence activities. 7) Research market conditions, technology trends, and U.S. supplier opportunities to support sourcing and local

- **Id**: 3702135
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/samsung-electronics-purchasing-planning-specialist>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Newberry, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T19:51:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T08:52:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3365
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Smartphones, Televisions, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Displays & Panel Technology

## Company

- **Id**: 166
- **Name**: Samsung Electronics
- **Domain**: samsung.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/samsung>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 142
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.556
- **Repost share**: 0.063
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T19:51:03Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 132 · green card filings: 34; Filings 12m: 132

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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