Senior Buyer Planner

Verathon is a global medical device company focused on supporting customers by being their trusted partner, delivering high-quality products that endure over time and ensure clinical and economic utility.

Two areas where Verathon has significantly impacted patient care, and become the market leader in each, are bladder volume measurement and airway management.

The company’s BladderScan portable ultrasound and GlideScope video laryngoscopy & bronchoscopy systems effectively address unmet needs for healthcare providers and meaningfully raise the standard of care for patients.

Verathon, a subsidiary of Roper Technologies, is headquartered in Bothell, Washington, USA and has international subsidiaries in Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific.

For more information, please visit www.verathon.com .

Verathon® is looking for a Senior Buyer-Planner to become the newest member of our Operations located in Bothell, WA.

In this role, you will perform a variety of purchasing assignments, to ensure we achieve our corporate goals relating to raw inventory availability, supplier costs, on-time delivery and quality.

If you are an experienced and driven supply chain professional looking for a new challenge in a rapidly growing business with a purpose of making a real difference in today’s world, then the Senior Buyer-Planner at Verathon is the job you have been looking for.

• Own the end to end supply chain and supplier relationship for assigned commodities
• Evaluate supplier capacity required to support customer demand
• Analyze demand and place purchase orders for materials and ensure supplier commitments are met
• Manage assigned inventory within predefined Min/Max levels and countermeasure as needed
• Ensure the third party logistics facility achieves the required inventory level
• Negotiates with suppliers to mitigate potential delivery issues
• Analyze supplier responses and make recommendations to business when there are constraints
• Manage NPI transitions to production
• Participate in Supplier Business Review meetings
• Closely monitor supplier OTD and escalate as needed
• Escalate EOL/LTB decisions and associated supplier negotiations (e.g. pricing, lead-time)
• Collaborate with A/P team members to promptly reconcile PO/invoice discrepancies
• Work with MRB team to process RTV’s in a timely fashion
• Respond to and update ECR’s and ECO’s as needed