Senior Global/Sourcing Buyer
On-siteGeorge Town, Penang, Malaysia
Job Summary
Manage the purchasing cycle for assigned segments and sites, including generating requisitions, PO creation, follow-up, goods reception, and final payment. Establish specifications for optimal quantity, quality, and cost impact while identifying critical parts and suppliers. Negotiate at order and forecast levels to secure price breaks, rebates, and favorable terms, and expedite or defer POs based on schedule and inventory changes. Monitor supplier performance against KPIs, resolve PO-to-invoice discrepancies, and manage inter-company material flows between warehouse locations. Determine optimal inventory levels using ERP metrics and coordinate with the Material Review Board for quality issues. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to find new sources, execute supplier selections, and support new product development while ensuring compliance with procurement policies.
Required Qualifications
- BS/BA in Supply Chain, Business, Logistics or equivalent experience
- 0-5 years of experience in a buyer/planner/material scheduler role working for a direct manufacturer
- Demonstrated knowledge of forecasting, MRP, supply chain, inventory management and purchasing disciplines
- Proficient with MS Office suite – advanced skills with MS Excel
- Experience establishing and employing demand-pull material planning methods
- Highly motivated and self-driven with a focus on successfully delivering results for the team and meeting overall company goals
- Ability to take the initiative and work independently toward a defined goal yet excels at collaborating across multiple groups and functions, forming relationships within the department to foster planning and efficiency
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented with the ability to align a series of tasks to goals and understand interdependencies
- Strong interpersonal, persuasion, influencing and collaboration skills required, working to build consensus
- Demonstrates flexibility and the ability to multi-task and balance competing priorities constantly and meet strict deadlines meanwhile maintaining poise and a positive attitude in challenging environments
- Strong customer service focus to enhance satisfaction, demonstrate judgment, tact, and diplomacy in dealing with internal and external customers
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify and define issues or barriers, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions to generate solutions
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to create written communication that is properly structured providing clear, concise messages that draw well supported conclusions. Verbal communication skills required across all levels of the organization and with external vendors and suppliers
- Agility to work within broad guidelines and policies in order to impact a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams
- Ability to review supplier financial reports / D&B and demonstrated understanding of supply markets, trends and supply chains in which suppliers operate in the Directspace
- Understands contracts (able to read, interpret, and develop a basic contract using standard templates / T&Cs), the risk involved in acquiring the required product/service, and the legal ramifications of negotiating with suppliers and how a contract can be entered into
Desired Qualifications
- Certificate in CPIM or CSCP strongly preferred
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