Buyer/Planner- Manager

Role: Operational Buyer / Planner- Manager

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Type: W2

Job Description:

Role: Operational Buyer / Planner- Manager

Sunnyvale, CA

Onsite role- 5 days

Bachelor s degree or equivalent degrees

3-5 years of experience as a Buyer Planner or in a similar procurement role.

BPO experience

Experience required in Procurement domain (Buyer Experience)

Must Have Skills:

Create Purchase order transactions on the fly and knowledge of SAP
Knowledge of supply and demand planning

The candidate must combine a working knowledge of excellent supply chain practices, strong analytical capabilities, strong leadership skills, and business savvy.

Effective in communication, influencing, and negotiation in a matrix organization including one-on-one, small and large groups, and with peers and executives.

Good to Have:

Knowledge of Reporting tools such as Business Objects, Tableau or similar is a plus.

Knowledge of other procurement software.

Responsibilities

Optimize planning process; execute weekly plans to minimize future gaps by reviewing new buy and repair plan recommend by the planning system.

Keeping planning system master data up to date and initiate Engineering Change request based on material life cycle.

Manage procurement and repair activities including setting up repair supply chain, execute, expedite the repair purchase orders, streamlining repair cycle, working with supplier manager to ensure supply plans meets requirements. Resolve shipping and receiving issue, invoice variance, payment isuse and manage purchase orders reconciliation with the suppliers.

Responsible for key performance metrics such as backlog, fill rate, inventory turn, purchase orders price variance and past due delivery management.

Analyze forecasted demand, inventory, and develop weekly supply plans that meet customer demands. Results should meet AppleCare s target of fill rate, while minimizing total inventory cost

Analyze and resolve product backlogs, fill rates on a daily basis. Identify problem areas, and drive appropriate functional groups to correct.

Identify opportunities for system enhancement and work with key business stakeholders and IT to implement continuous system improvements.

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