Indirect Buyer - with German skills

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macro trends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 122,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.

Thorough understanding of materials planning and Supply Chain Management and Buying
- Prior experience in a buying role
- Demonstrated success in driving inventory reduction and on-time delivery improvements
- Experience with the SAP System
- Microsoft Office skills: advanced experience of Microsoft Excel
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Time Management skills: Able to prioritise multiple tasks and work effectively with minimal supervison
- Effective communication skills (orally and in writing)
- A motivated team player
- Fluent in German

The Buyer will have responsibility for the necessary tactical activities related to the timely acquisition of materials with linkage to the site’s inventory and on-time delivery targets. Additionally, he/she will participate in planning process improvement projects at the site.
Responsibilities:

- Issue purchase orders or replenishment call-offs for direct materials.
- Provide requirements forecasts to suppliers as required
- Run and review the ERP action report, obtain approvals as required and enter PO’s or replenishment call-offs into the ERP system and send to suppliers via e-mail.
- Manage supplier Kanban or VMI systems and communicate requirements to the supplier
- Actively drive Kanban and VMI implementation projects with suppliers
- Manage purchase orders, due dates and raw material inventory levels
- Receive supplier acknowledgements and ensure the PO due dates are accurately maintained in the ERP system. Run the Supplier Open PO report for key suppliers as required.
- Push-in and pull-out Purchase Order due dates, as needed, to prevent production disruptions, delays, downtime and excess inventory.
- Resolve Supplier delivery problems (late and early receipts) in an aggressive and timely manner and escalate for assistance as required.
- Assist and support management of Inactive, Obsolete and Excess inventories.
- Maintain data integrity in SAP (Purchase Info records Vendor Master Data etc)
- Manage New-Product-Introductions and Engineering Change Requests
- Communicate technical specifications to suppliers and manage price and lead-time changes in system
- Work closely with engineering on issuing Purchase orders
- Invoice cleansing in System
- Manage RFQ’s
- Support supplier quality problem resolution
- Return defective material to suppliers and issue PO’s to replace non-conforming material.
Key Performance Indicators:

- On-time-to-request delivery reliability
- Material availability (number of missing parts)
- Raw Material inventory value and Days of Supply
- Inventory obsolescence performance
- Order-to-delivery cycle time of purchased parts
- Smooth and on-time introduction of new products.