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Buying Professional
Siemens Industry, Inc.-Heber Springs, AR
Full-Time
20 days ago

The Electrification and Automation Business Unit is the leading global supplier of products, systems, solutions, and services for the economical, reliable, and intelligent transmission and distribution of electrical power. Electrical energy makes the world go round. No matter where power comes from or where it has to go, we make sure it makes it’s way – every step of the way!

Siemens Electrification and Automation – Ahead of the Challenge – Ahead of the Change!

We are looking for the best talent to shape the technology of the future. Come expand your career in one of the best companies world-wide!

Culture:

At Siemens, we live and foster an ownership culture, in which every employee takes personal responsibility for our company’s success. We utilize lean principles to continually improve our processes and customers’ experience. We trust and empower our employees to act as owners, make decisions and innovate to succeed. We communicate openly and honestly to learn from our failures and celebrate our successes. We recognize individual and team achievements frequently. We invest in our team members, offering a wide variety of internal and external development opportunities.

Overview:


We are looking for a Buyer for our Heber Springs, Arkansas location, a manufacturing and distribution facility primarily focused on medium-voltage overhead outdoor power distribution products and solutions. Outdoor products are essential components of medium-voltage distribution grids. Siemens' comprehensive outdoor portfolio of switching devices is designed for a wide variety of applications and climatic conditions. Type-tested reliability as well as long electrical life and mechanical robustness help to minimize operation costs while increasing resiliency of medium-voltage smart grids. Solutions for wildfire mitigation available on select products.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the supply chain & provide a prime focal point to suppliers.
  • Generates Purchase Orders (SAP) in assigned queue in accordance with required strategies based on the requisition and obtains order acknowledgement.
  • Identify, report and manage potential problems and proactively address material shortages before impacting production.
  • Manages supplier On Time Delivery (OTD)
  • Prepare and manage supplier key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Obtain information from suppliers in order to complete supplier setups
  • Familiarity with the various Siemens Procurement tools (SAP, EZ Suite, IOL, GMDM, SCMStar, etc)
  • Issues PO’s for Capital equipment in oneSRM
  • Participates in the Supplier Qualification Process for new suppliers of key major components
  • Prepares and conducts negotiations as required for issuing Purchase Orders and seeks price reductions for YOY spend.
  • Coordinates with Engineering, Supplier Quality and manufacturing as required
  • Ensures compliance with SIEMENS buying guidelines.
  • Understand Siemens T&C’s, contract and project deliverables and enact plans for meeting goals.
  • Leads Supplier Non-Conformances (NCRs) with the Supplier Quality Manager and Engineering to insure no impact on production floor.
  • Performs Supplier Evaluations and Supplier Development Plans for the assigned commodities, including establishing supplier score cards.
  • Support resolutions of GR/IR issues and other exceptions to established rules
  • Support and help define commodity strategies for assigned purchasing spend.

Required Skills, Experience, Education:

  • Bachelor's degree (B. S.) in supply chain, business or technical curriculum
  • A minimum of 3-5 years of experience
  • Strong written and oral communication in English language
  • Highly skilled with Microsoft office products (Power Point, Word and Excel)
  • Must be customer focused and a collaborative team player
  • Ability to assess priorities, demonstrate flexibility and understand sense of urgency
  • Self-motivated, demonstrate problem solving abilities, continuous improvement and decision-making skills

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience and Knowledge of castings, fasteners, sheet metal, commodity metals and various electrical components is desired

Benefits:

In addition to the growth and development opportunities we continue to foster, we offer included benefits of PTO, a matching 401K plan, stock share match, health, life, vision and dental benefits, paid parental leave, and so much more.

Can you see yourself, learning, growing, and succeeding here? If so, we'd like to meet you! Apply today and learn how you can be a part of the Siemens family.

Location
99 Bolton Sullivan Drive
Heber Springs, AR 72543,USA
Tel.: +01 (501) 250-9928
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