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About the Role

The Commodity Buyer is responsible for deploying and developing the commodity strategy for assigned commodities, managing supplier relationships and negotiations, and ensuring supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for subcontract sourcing, proposal evaluation, negotiation, award, execution, and administration of subcontract purchase orders from new part production to production environment.
• Ensure timely procurement and on-time delivery performance for assigned commodities/suppliers with an annual spend of $8 million.
• Lead activities supporting production needs impacted by vendor performance with minimal impact to inventory position.
• Lead negotiation of strategic agreements with vendors for stocking and pricing.
• Assess vendor performance and lead vendor improvement activities to reduce risks to production and ensure Motivair’s Terms and Conditions of Purchase are upheld.
• Participate and engage in Rep and Certification activities for new business.
• Identify strategies and opportunities to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and manage risk through strategic and targeted negotiations.
• Cultivate and maintain strong working relationships with suppliers, internal stakeholders, operations, engineering, and quality.
• Prepare and maintain subcontract files extensive and detailed enough to permit informed decision-making by management and successful audit.
• Manage the invoice to pay process by ensuring accurate pay terms, release of payments, and resolving discrepant matters preventing payment.
• Lead Buy American, Conflict Minerals Reporting, and other annual reporting requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ability to comprehend and understand Engineering Data and assess required flow downs to vendors.
• Ability to comprehend and understand Customer commercial data and assess required flow downs to vendors.
• Experience working with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Experience understanding technical data.
• Experience managing supplier development activities.
• Demonstrated contract negotiation with savings.
• Experience with ISO 9001 a plus.
• Strong business acumen.
• Knowledge of commodity markets.
• Blueprint reading and familiarity with eDrawing viewer.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Negotiation Skills.
• Vendor relationship management.
• Understanding of the Procurement lifecycle.
• Understanding of Procurement Compliance activities.
• Attention to detail and project management skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Problem-solving and reporting skills.
• Office environment working primarily at a desk on a computer.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time.

Skills

• Negotiation Skills
• Vendor relationship management
• Understanding of the Procurement lifecycle
• Understanding of Procurement Compliance activities
• Attention to detail
• Project management skills
• Presentation skills
• Communication skills
• Problem solving skills
• Reporting skills
• MS Excel
• MS Word
• MS PowerPoint

Location

• U.S.

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years of progressive build to print/subcontracts/procurement experience or total of 10 years of relevant experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or engineering
• CPIM certification

Salary/Compensations

• USD 86,400 - USD 129,600 per year

Benefits

• Medical (with member reward points)
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic life insurance
• Benefit Bucks
• Flexible work arrangements
• Paid family leaves
• Well-being programs
• 12 holidays per year
• 15 days of paid time off per year
• Competitive pay
• Incentives
• Company share ownership
• 401(k) with match
• Performance discussions
• Global opportunities
• Schneider Career Hub
• Learning platforms like Coursera
• Recognition
• Volunteer leave
• Programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation
• Youth education initiatives
• Military leave benefits

About the Company

• €40 billion global revenue
• +9% organic growth
• 150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
• Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best.
• We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values.
• We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
• At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value.
• Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders.

Equal Opportunity

• Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.