Buyer (Contract)

Req ID: 134199
Country: USA
State: Arizona
City: Tucson (Onsite)

Summary

As a Buyer at Celestica, you will be a key player in our supply chain processes, ensuring that the materials and components required for high-tech electronics manufacturing within the Aerospace industry are available, cost-effective, and meet our quality standards.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Direct Supplier Expediting: Acts as the primary driver for on-time delivery by proactively expediting orders, managing ship dates, and resolving "past due" lines to prevent production line-down situations.
• Procurement Execution: Procures goods and services to support business operations, initiating purchases driven by the MRP (Material Requirements Planning) process.
• Order Optimization: Assesses when to execute orders and determines optimal order quantities based on lead times, safety stock, and demand volatility.
• Quoting & Sourcing: Facilitates the quoting process and identifies new sources of supply to improve lead times and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Contract Management: Reviews requisitions, contacts vendors, examines bids, and initiates formal contracts.
• Shortage Mitigation: Addresses and resolves critical supply chain shortages and allocations by identifying alternate sources or escalating with current vendors.
• Discrepancy Management: Resolves issues involving discrepant material (Quality/RMA) and ensures replacement parts are expedited immediately.
• Root Cause Analysis: Analyzes variances and delivery failures to determine root causes and implements corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Audit & ISO Compliance: Coordinates internal self-audits and ISO reviews; develops audit procedures to ensure total compliance with corporate policies.

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

• Basic knowledge of electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.
• Knowledge of procurement processes, inventory management and supplier management.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (such as SAP or Oracle ) and advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables).
• Good negotiation and problem resolution skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Strong knowledge of SCM policies, and procedures and ISO standards.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a combined office and manufacturing floor environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional overnight travel may be required.

Salary

Hourly Salary Range: $23-$35/h USD

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Typical Experience and Education

• Two to Four years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

This location is a US ITAR facility and these positions will involve the release of export controlled goods either directly to employees or through the employee's movement within the facility. As such, Celestica will require necessary information from all applicants upon an applicant's acceptance of employment to determine if any export control exemptions or licenses must be filed.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.