Summary
The Senior Buyer is responsible for purchasing materials and services from suppliers. The Senior Buyer will assess the need of existing and new vendors. Facilitation and management of sound contracts and purchase orders and vendor relationships are critical to enable the operation to produce safe, quality, low cost tons and delivery on customers’ expectations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Bid and contract award process management skills
• Financial Analysis
• Market Analysis
• Order Processing
• Procurement Process
• Sourcing Strategy Development & Implementation Supplier Analysis
• Supplier Evaluation
• Supplier Diversity
• Supplier Negotiation
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Supply Chain Performance Management
• Supplier Segmentation
• Supplier Costing Models & Cost Components
• Technical Assessment of Suppliers & Commodities
• Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
• Transportation & Logistics
• Service Management
• Life-cycle cost management
• Master Data Management: Vendor Masters
• Price escalation models
• Business acumen
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Problem solving and decision-making capability
• Attention to detail

Job Duties

• Lead the evaluation of bids to determine optimum value and gain alignment from key stakeholders.
• Lead contract negotiations and ensure strategies are developed in support of the negotiations.  
• Identify potential new suppliers, develop, review, and issue requests for quotations and request for tenders.  
• Provide expertise in analysis, evaluation, qualification, and selection of suppliers.  
• Monitor market trends and conditions in the creation of the procurement strategy.
• Manage strategic and high value supplier relationships.
• Coordinate the development, issuance, and evaluation of “Requests for Proposals” and “Requests for Tender” packages.
• Negotiate high value, strategic, and complex contracts for certain commodities or geographical area, including global contracts.
• Develop Contract Approval Requests
• Preparation of strategic, high value, or complex procurement strategies
• Supplier selection based on bid analysis and supplier evaluation criteria
• Management of the processes to identify, develop, and qualify alternative suppliers to ensure security of supply.
• Evaluate implementation of methods (JIT, MRP, consignment, and VMI) to optimize high value commodity inventory levels
• Drive continuous improvement for assigned commodity, service or geographical area, and global contracts  

Skills

Primary Location:  Hamilton, Mississippi

Employment Type: Permanent/Full-Time