xPL Buyer

Position Description:
Perform end-to-end purchasing activities including assessing production demand, selecting and negotiating with suppliers, placing purchase orders, and oversee confirmation and delivery schedule of materials.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Perform review of production schedules and forecasts to determine material and component requirements, working in close collaboration with xPL Manufacturing Production team at xPL manufacturing facility.
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• Perform purchasing activities to secure delivery of specified materials and/or services from suppliers, including negotiating of prices and terms favorable to specific production needs.
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• Contribute material purchase details to xPL Procurement team and participate in project meetings to communicate commitments to schedule through to completion.
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• Conduct financial statement analysis and reference verification to secure new and existing supplier qualifications
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• Monitor supplier performance, resolve delivery, quality, or supply issues and track required supplier information in support of xPL business analytics requirements.
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• Identify cost-saving opportunities and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
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• Track open Purchase Orders (POs), confirm supplier acknowledgements, and expedite critical materials to prevent production delays; communicate shortages and recovery plans.
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• Manage PO lifecycle in system of record (e.g., create, revise, cancel, close POs) and maintain complete purchasing documentation.
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• Coordinate with Finance team (accounts receivables and payables) to resolve discrepancies and returns and/or credits.
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• Partner with xPL Manufacturing and/or Engineering teams to evaluate material substitutions or alternates as needed to meet schedule and quality requirements.
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• Support resolution of supplier quality issues (non-conforming material) in coordination with xPL Production and/or xPL Quality teams.
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• Maintain and report basic procurement metrics (e.g., open orders, past due items, lead times, and on-time delivery performance).
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• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from accredited degree program with minimum of 4 years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  
• Knowledge of manufacturing operations and production scheduling
  
• Knowledge of procurement policies, practices, and processes
  
• Familiar with accounting processes and practices
  
• Ability to communicate effectively, influence decisions and negotiate outcomes
  
• Demonstrate leadership from within, teamwork, and able to build professional relationships
  
• Flexible to reprioritize responsibilities and work in complex environment with multiple project teams
  
• Demonstrate analytical thinking, good judgment, and problem-solving skills
  
• Attention to detail and highly organized
  
• Advanced spreadsheet skills (e.g., pivot tables, lookups) preferred
  
• Proficient computer skills, database application skills, Microsoft Office suite of applications, and collaboration tools
  
• Familiar with material requirements planning and supply chain planning processes and systems
  
• Limited travel
  

  Physical Demands:
  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands, talk, and hear. The employee frequently views a computer monitor and frequently uses a computer keyboard. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee is regularly required to be mobile, and the employee occasionally travels both short and long distances via a variety of conveyances. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

  Work Environment:
  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office setting. The noise in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate in an office setting. The employee is required to work in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and applicable laws.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.