Buyer/Procurement

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Prepares Requests for Proposals (RFQ) to comply with all technical, quality, delivery, and contractual requirements.

Analyze supplier quotes and proposals.

Creates and authorizes purchase orders and approves payments to ensure the procurement process goes smoothly.

Drives on-time deliveries on all shipments.

Manages supplier performance to cost, delivery, quality, technical and programmatic/contractual requirements.

Required to manage a high volume of material orders.

Collaborates with leadership and stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and to deliver resolution to complex supplier issues and drive systemic lessons learned.

Performs other duties as required.

Requirements:

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position.

Experience with Enterprise Planning Resource (ERP) and/or Material Requirements Planning (MRP) software, specifically SAP.

Experience with Procurement, Operation, Logistics, or Inventory Management.

Preferred Qualifications:

Distributed products procurement experience.

Experience developing relationships with Customer(s) and vendors.

Excellent problem- solving and negotiating skills.

Skilled at working independently, as well as in a team environment.

Experience performing in a dynamic, fast paced, changing environment.

Experience in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Education:

Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience.