Senior Buyer COE

What you'll do:

Job summary

The purpose of the position is to support Eaton manufacturing plants and other Eaton locations in the Americas region with operational procurement activities from our Center of Excellence CoE offices. Senior Operational Buyer will handle Medium/High complexity networks assign components to ensure materials availability and supplier stability.

Job responsibilities
• Procures direct materials following plant and corporate regulations. (QA, SCM)
• Generate purchasing orders (PO's) in accordance to demand requirements.
• Communicates and coordinates with network schedulers for plan and execution updates.
• Understands material requirements and processes requisitions to provide POs to Suppliers.
• Works closely with suppliers to ensure on time delivery of material to plant.
• Executes exception messages on active orders (Postponement/Anticipation/Cancellation of orders) and manage internal escalations.
• Resolving internal discrepancies with operations and external issues with suppliers (e.g. delivery issues, claims, quality issues, etc).
• Works closely with logistics partners and suppliers for material delivery as per incoterms.
• Evaluates and monitors supply performance (SOTD) and works with suppliers and category managers to implement corrective/preventive actions for on time performance improvement.
• Supplier invoice management and support in resolution of holds for timely payments.
• Maintains inventory levels of materials in accordance with the objectives set and works with inputs from inventory analysts and network schedulers for optimized inventory level.
• Coordinates with Supplier Quality and suppliers for RMA of defective parts and relates reverse logistics.
• Works with Engineering, Products Managers and CMs for phase-in/ou (ECM Management).
• Maintains relevant purchasing data (Specific to price through SPI Policy) and other purchasing data (e.g. unit price change, supplier lead time, MOQ, MOV, Single/dual sourced, among others) in collaboration with Data Health and Commodity Team.
• Utilizes all digital tools available for SCM for maximized efficiency.
• Responsible for sharing with the team best materials management practices, continuous improvement of process, development of process standards, compliance with materials planning processes, and reporting in alignment with the network and global supply chain organization.

Qualifications:

Education level required

Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration or similar careers.

Years and area of experience required

Minimum 3 years of experience in similar areas.

Fluent Spanish / English language capabilities.

Skills:

Technical knowledge

Kinaxis, SAP MM advanced level, Mapics, Oracle, MS Office advanced level.

Soft skills
• MS Office skills (Excel)
• Experience in purchasing/finance
• ERP system experience (SAP, Mapics, Oracle, Vista) preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively
• CI mindset
• Proactive Can Do Attitude
• Ability to work in a team
• High level of accuracy
• Capacity and ability to work under pressure and prioritize.