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About the Role
The Buyer/Planner is responsible for ensuring uninterrupted supply of raw materials, components, and services required to support manufacturing operations. This role combines production planning, inventory management, supplier management, and purchasing activities to maintain material availability while optimizing inventory investment.
Responsibilities
- Manage assigned commodities and suppliers to ensure continuous material availability for production.
- Review MRP-generated supply recommendations and take appropriate actions to support demand.
- Analyze inventory levels, safety stock settings, lead times, and replenishment strategies.
- Monitor material shortages and proactively mitigate supply risks.
- Support inventory optimization initiatives to improve inventory turns while maintaining service levels.
- Maintain accurate planning parameters within SAP, including lead times, lot sizes, safety stock, and MRP settings.
- Participate in cycle count investigations and inventory reconciliation activities.
- Convert purchase requisitions into purchase orders and manage order fulfillment.
- Monitor supplier commitments and expedite orders as required.
- Track supplier performance including on-time delivery, responsiveness, and quality.
- Collaborate with Supplier Quality and Strategic Procurement on supplier-related issues.
- Support supplier onboarding, qualification, and compliance activities.
- Coordinate resolution of delivery delays, allocation challenges, and supply disruptions.
- Maintain accurate supplier master and purchasing data.
- Support manufacturing schedules through effective material planning and execution.
- Participate in daily production meetings and shortage reviews.
- Coordinate material availability for production orders and schedule adherence.
- Identify and communicate material risks that may impact customer deliveries.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality teams to resolve material-related issues.
- Support NPI projects through material planning and supplier readiness activities.
- Evaluate supply chain impacts of engineering changes.
- Manage inventory disposition plans associated with product changes and obsolescence.
- Coordinate cut-in/cut-over activities with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Procurement teams.
- Analyze planning, inventory, and supplier performance metrics.
- Develop and maintain reports related to inventory, shortages, supplier delivery, and material availability.
- Support cost reduction, inventory reduction, and process improvement initiatives.
- Participate in Lean, digitalization, and supply chain optimization projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in purchasing, materials planning, production planning, or supply chain operations.
- Experience using ERP systems such as SAP.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Strong communication and supplier management skills.
- A successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law.
Skills
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- MRP
- Forecasting
- Capacity planning
- Inventory control
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $83,640 - $115,005
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Paid parking/public transportation
- Paid time off
- Paid sick and safe time
About the Company
- We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries.
- As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing.
- Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.
- When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas.
- We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.
Equal Opportunity
- Siemens Healthineers is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.
- Applicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
- Siemens Healthineers is committed to equal employment opportunity.
- As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.