Buyer, Senior Staff

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company, whose employees are passionate about providing life-saving solutions to our customers through a collaborative and high-impact work environment. Our moderate size, diversity of technologies, and broad material science capabilities provide an environment in which our employees can develop broad skill sets and directly influence product development and manufacturing outcomes.

We are looking for a Buyer, Senior Staff to join our talented team in Costa Rica. Responsible for procuring raw materials, OEM components, capital equipment, tooling, supplies and services, to ensure customer service level, while achieving the targeted company objectives. They are also responsible to strike an optimal balance between cost, quality, delivery and service in a fast-paced environment. The Senior Buyer is responsible to thoroughly understand the commodities and/or projects they support, to give the organization a competitive advantage and evaluate suppliers’ capabilities, negotiate and administer contracts as necessary.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Materials Administration: Generates, adjusts and expedites purchase orders based on requirements which may come from MRP, project teams or other internal customers; Generates buy action based on authorized spending amount; Coordinates with internal customers to maintain optimal service levels and determine the proper priorities for material support; Tracks and monitors purchase orders, keeping informed of any problems/delays and communicates any impacts/constraints to the Planner, manufacturing manager/supervisor or other discipline impacted by the change; Supports material needs for the product development process to ensure Confluent competitive strategy; Generates on-going cost savings and maintains competitive cost in all disciplines; Participates on project teams for sourcing material; Responsible to mentor Buyer I, II levels as necessary; Manages the most complex commodities, projects, and/or responsibilities; Displays leadership by initiating change ideas and driving implementation.

Supplier Management: Monitors and communicates quality and delivery performance to the supplier; Ensures sourcing for projects early in their phases; Obtains bids to promote a competitive environment (locates, interviews, analyzes and evaluates vendor capabilities to select suppliers, partners with these suppliers to maximize company funds.) Responsible to resolve supplier related problems (works closely with suppliers to assure a positive and professional relationship, always establishing and maintaining open lines of communication.); Maintains awareness of market trends pertaining to their responsibility.

Total Quality: Adheres to FDA, BSI requirements; Reviews raw material document change orders; Maintains accurate purchasing master data, AVL, etc.; Interfaces with Engineering, Planning, and Quality to ensure timely throughput and proper prioritization of materials received.

Inventory Management: Manages the most complex, high impact or high financial risk commodities, projects and/or responsibilities; Formulates purchasing decisions to achieve internal customer service, targeted inventory turns and least total cost material procurement; Identifies expired, excess and obsolete materials and dispositions the material appropriately.

Supplier Relationship Management: Co-manage the supplier relations along with Procurement Manager to ensure business continuity and strategic development of the vendors portfolio.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree with 6-8 years of related experience; or equivalent

combination of education and experience.

Proficient personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet and graphics.

Skills and abilities we're looking:

Flexibility with different work schedules

Advanced level in written and oral English communication skills

Read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations

Write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals

Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public

Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram,

or schedule form.

Work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry

Apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations

Behavior traits:

Work in a self-managed work team environment.

Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group

dependencies/relationships

Develops solutions to diverse business problems of high complexity which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity

Analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.

Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

Serves as a consultant to management and special external spokesperson for the organization on major matters pertaining to its policies, projects, or objectives.

Uses diplomacy and tact to diffuse high tension situations, particularly with senior level internal and external contacts

Occasionally escalates the most serious issues to manager

Confluent Medical Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.

This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. Other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities will typically be performed by the incumbent(s).

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