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About the Role

As a Buyer, you’ll be responsible for purchasing the materials, supplies, machinery, and services that equip our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. You’ll collaborate across teams and showcase your organization and strategic planning skills to monitor inventory, manage delivery scheduling, negotiate with suppliers, and procure essential items that transform possibilities into realities for our customers and teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure supply continuity to enable manufacturing with speed and quality.
• Follow-up on orders, verify delivery, approve payment, and maintain necessary records.
• Adhere to standard purchasing business processes.
• Proactively drive and ensure timely delivery/shipment of parts from supplier to Applied factories including resolution of shipment/receiving and billing issues with supplier.
• Partner with suppliers on demand/supply collaboration.
• Execute and manage pull-ins/push-outs with suppliers to meet MRP demand.
• Drive inventory and E&Z reduction efforts.
• Negotiate and execute purchase and RFQ to drive the lowest cost consistent with consideration of quality, reliability of source and urgency of need.
• Drive problem resolution for supply issues with key stakeholders (engineering, manufacturing, Program Managers) with support from Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 1-2 years of related experience
• A solid understanding of the industry’s key business drivers
• Good communication/interpersonal skills to explain complex information to others

Location

• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• Full time
• Assignee / Regular

Experience Level

• 1-2 years of related experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Benefits

• Supportive work culture that encourages learning, development, and career growth.
• Programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go.

About the Company

• Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world.
• We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of both devices we use every day.
• As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT.
• If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

Equal Opportunity

• Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.