Buyer

Responsibilities: Build and refine demand plans by analyzing historical usage, business trends, customer signals, and available forecasting insights. Partner with sales, service, product, manufacturing, and other internal teams to align supply plans with changing demand requirements. Maintain material readiness for production and customer commitments by reviewing shortages, escalating constraints, and driving timely resolution plans. Execute purchasing activities for assigned materials and suppliers, including order placement, replenishment actions, and schedule coordination. Track supplier performance across delivery, lead time, capacity, and risk indicators, and support improvement efforts through structured follow-up. Manage inventory settings such as safety stock, reorder points, and planning parameters to balance service expectations with working capital goals. Review excess, aging, and slow-moving inventory and recommend actions that reduce waste and improve inventory health. Create and maintain dashboards, key performance measures, and automated reporting that strengthen planning visibility and decision-making. Keep material, supplier, and procurement records accurate in SAP and related systems while supporting engineering changes and lifecycle updates. Contribute to risk mitigation and continuity planning by identifying vulnerable supply areas, supporting alternate sourcing strategies, and helping prepare recovery actions for critical materials.