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Buyer Mobility Customer Service - Sacramento California
Company: Siemens Mobility Location: Sacramento, California
Posted On: 05/03/2024
Pioneering in America, from the first mile to the last. This is what drives us. For more than 160 years, Siemens has been an integral provider of infrastructure, electrification, and transportation solutions in the United States. Rail systems must do one thing above all: run. With modern maintenance solutions - from diagnostics to data-based action recommendations, from quick delivery of replacement parts to strategically planned modernization - we ensure your systems' highest reliability and availability: 100% Railability. We are constantly developing new, intelligent mobility solutions that increase the availability of infrastructure for the society, optimize route usage and create a new quality of travel. Good service means we are there for our partners and customers when they need us - and beyond. That is because we define ourselves by what we do. Every day, every hour, every minute. We help our customers move the world. Position Overview: Siemens Mobility Customer Service is seeking a Buying Professional for our Order Management and Logistics Team. The position will be responsible for P2P process and the order management of a set group of product commodities including a strong focus of materials that have been designated as subcontracting. The position will issue purchase orders to approved suppliers to obtain materials at the lowest cost consistent with quality reliability in addition to managing the delivery of components to the awarded subcontractor and the urgency of need for the final assembled material. This individual will maintain lead times for custom and standard product orders, manage supplier relationships, align with our Strategic Procurement team to monitor supplier performance, supplier quality as we as negotiated terms and conditions. This position will assist the strategic procurement team in executing commodity strategies at a tactical level. Ideally, this position will be seated at McClellan Park (Sacramento), CA however we will also consider candidates close to our New Castle, DE and Lexington, NC plants with a remote hybrid schedule. What your day-to-day will look like: - Analyze subcontracting Bill of Materials (BoM), existing inventory at plants and subcontractors, and open purchase orders of components and final assembly parts.
- Execute complex buying strategies to purchase and arrange timely deliveries of supplies and materials; expedite as needed and serve as liaison between vendors, lower-level component buyers and users, getting prior approval for purchases more than established limits.
- Resolve complex delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases and invoices.
- Review and target supplier delivery improvements and late order resolution.
- Track the vendor's progress against the original and/or revised schedule, invoice reconciliation.
- Controlling and Performance Goods Receipts/Invoice Receipts (GRIR).
- Work with cross-functional business partners as well as Supply Chain Management (SCM) network, accounting, financial and controlling.
- Contribute to implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes, and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g., compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems).
- Update project plans and purchasing systems; review and analyze requisitions and supply plans for domestic and international purchases.
- Define, communicate, and track scheduling, risk, change, opportunities, and resource management.
- Work in conjunction with strategic procurement, supplier quality and logistics for improving total cost of ownership of products/services.
- Leverage existing procurement processes and compliance while seeking to identify best management practices, improved procurement processes and other continual improvement initiatives to facilitate efficient processes.
To thrive in this role, you have: - Bachelor's degree in SCM, Business Admin, Economics, or Engineering preferred. In lieu of Bachelor's degree, a combination of education and relevant work experience will be considered,
- Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in a manufacturing environment,
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications,
- Excellently demonstrated verbal and written communication skills,
- Excellent customer service skills,
- Ability to work in a team-oriented environment while maintaining an individual workload,
- Setting you apart from others would be knowledge of SAP and subcontracting concepts within Supply Chain Management with intermediate MS Excel (VLOOKUP, IF, Pivot tables, etc.) skills. Experience working in the transportation Industry along with experience with Robotic Process Automation and other digitalization initiatives is a plus.
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