Technical Buyer

• Identifies and evaluates potential suppliers to ensure that they meet quality, cost, and reliability standards.
• Develops and implements effective negotiating strategies.
• Maintains strong relationships with existing suppliers and negotiates favorable terms, including pricing, payment terms, lead times, service expectations, and delivery requirements.
• Manages the supply base to ensure materials, equipment, components, and services meet current and future production needs.
• Monitors supplier performance related to cost, quality, on-time delivery, responsiveness, capacity, and overall reliability.

• Manages continuous improvement and cost-reduction projects within assigned commodities to improve total cost, quality, delivery, and supplier performance.
• Recommends consolidation, standardization, and alternative sourcing opportunities to eliminate waste, reduce cost, and improve supply chain efficiency.
• Reviews and maintains appropriate inventory levels, safety stock, reorder points, and order quantities by analyzing ERP demand, forecast, consumption, and production-planning data.
• Develops and maintains necessary records and files for efficient operation.
• Maintains accurate supplier, item, pricing, lead time, purchasing-related, and demand-related data in ERP systems.

• Collaborates with quality assurance, product engineering, operations, and suppliers to ensure purchased products meet quality, safety, drawing, specification, and performance standards.
• Addresses supplier quality, delivery, and service issues promptly and effectively to minimize production disruption.
• Facilitates corrective and preventive action plans with suppliers and internal stakeholders to support root cause resolution and sustained improvement.

• Monitors commodity markets, supplier capacity, lead times, pricing trends, tariff impacts, and industry conditions to anticipate risks and identify opportunities.
• Evaluates new technologies, materials, suppliers, and process improvements that may support cost, quality, supply continuity, or operational objectives.

• Working knowledge of procurement, sourcing, supplier management, inventory planning, and manufacturing supply chain practices.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to evaluate supplier proposals, influence favorable terms, resolve issues, and balance cost, quality, delivery, and business requirements.
• Demonstrated experience using ERP systems to manage purchasing, supplier, inventory, and demand-related data.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, with the ability to analyze purchasing, supplier, cost, and inventory data.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and organized.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to interpret basic engineered drawings, specifications, bills of material, and technical requirements related to purchased materials or components.
• Ability to evaluate supplier performance, identify supply risks, recommend corrective actions, and escalate issues appropriately.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering Technology or related field with a minimum 4 years applicable experience preferred.
• Experience with purchasing, sourcing, supplier evaluation, supplier auditing, supplier negotiations, and supplier performance management.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, including exposure to production schedules, material requirements, inventory controls, quality standards, and engineered drawings or specifications.

For a Technical Buyer I, the expected offer range is: $57,000 - $76,000.

The actual salary will be based on factors such as location, relevant experience, and skills.

The Max salary listed is not the top of the salary band.