Sr. Buyer

SP Industries Inc. is looking for a Sr Buyer to join our Gardiner, NY Supply Chain team!

As a Senior Buyer, you’ll be at the center of ensuring our materials, components, and services are delivered on time, at the right cost, and with the right quality, directly supporting our production schedule, customer commitments, and overall business performance. This is a high visibility role where your decisions shape supplier performance, inventory availability, and daily operational success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Execution of Purchasing standard work, in support of Supply Chain activities and the broader Revenue, Quality, and OTD goals of the organization.
• Review and analyze MRP requirements against planned order and exception reports to determine purchasing actions required against supply and demand.
• Execute and manage purchase order processes, including appropriate documentation, data entry, submission, order expediting, delivery, and reconciliation of related issues.
• Ensure continuity of inventory or project materials in support of customer OTD and revenue, by responding to planning parameter triggers, such as ROP, EOQ, min/max, or safety stock – or by making parameter recommendations and implementation, as well as supply and demand material forecasts.
• Maintain master data; maintain or implement purchasing and planning item attributes for new part releases, such as lead times, cost, UOM, supplier information, and inspection or certificate requirements, as well as related vendor attributes, within the company ERP system.
• Support supplier consolidation in alignment with SP preferred suppliers.
• Secures competitive quotes to ensure fairness of pricing, timeliness of availability and to maintain source of supply.
• Identification and understanding of critical suppliers; develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers; regular open order review and management, mitigation, and/or escalation of critical supplier OTD, cost, and quality performance.
• Take the initiative to solve supplier issues and/or part shortages, to improve long-term supplier performance and resolve stockouts.
• Reviews POs and order confirmations from suppliers for accuracy and/or discrepancies, ensuring alignment on delivery dates, cost, shipping information, and all applicable PO details as needed.
• Assist with general responsibilities within the tactical purchasing department for the facility, such as reviewing and converting purchase order requisitions.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Understand business systems, such as enterprise resources planning and material requirements planning.
• Autonomous decision making within approval guidelines.
• Communication, collaboration, and integration with related functional areas.
• Consistent and predictable attendance
• Critical thinking
• Understands and complies with all company rules and regulations.
• Reports on unsafe conditions and practices to management.
• Immediately reports injuries to management.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution or 5-10 years related working experience.
• Must have a working knowledge of an ERP system.
• Prior experience with MS Office.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional certification (or working towards), APICS or CIPS
• Experience working in a global organization or in manufacturing.
• Working understanding of MRP and ERP concepts, as related to purchasing, supply and demand, and material and vendor analysis

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

• Work is normally performed in both a typical interior/office and production floor work environment.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk and is frequently required to stand, use both hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, or occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

HSE

All employees have the responsibility to work in a safe manner and report any health, safety or environmental concern to their manager or supervisor in a timely manner.

Employee responsibilities for Health, Safety and Environment include:

• Work in compliance with divisional health, safety and environmental procedures
• Refrain from removing or altering safety devices or guarding unless hazardous energies are controlled through lockout-tagout methods
• Report any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts
• Report defect in any equipment or protective device
• Ensure that the required protective equipment is used for the assigned tasks
• Attend all required health, safety and environmental training
• Report any accidents/incidents to supervisor
• Assist in investigating accidents/incidents
• Refrain from engaging in any prank, contest, feat of strength, unnecessary running or rough and boisterous conduct

Salary Range: $75/K – $85/K