TEMPORARY BUYER II
Peerless is a food equipment company dedicated to creating value for the world’s leading wholesale bakeries and commercial food processors by developing and applying innovative technology for excellent solutions; our brands include: Peerless®, Peters® and Fedco®. Customers worldwide trust Peerless to create high quality, reliable equipment, meet critical sanitation requirements and provide attentive after sales service to optimize processes and reduce downtime. Peerless is a part of Illinois Tool Works, Inc. and the company’s Food Equipment Group. ITW is a Fortune 150 company with over 800 business units worldwide.
Peerless equipment indirectly touches consumers every day. To better explain our products, Peerless® mixers create the dough used to produce the loaves of bread purchased at grocery stores and the buns used for burgers at quick-serve restaurants. Peters® machinery assembles the sandwich cookies that get dunked in milk, by kids of all ages. Peerless has an immediate opening for this key position in Sidney, Ohio.
Summary
Incumbent will be responsible for purchasing materials, parts, supplies, and equipment by following established purchasing policies and procedures and optimizes price, delivery, and terms. Reviews and approves purchase requisitions. Identifies potential suppliers and issues requests for quotations. Analyzes and selects suppliers and issues purchase orders; follows-up and expedites as necessary. Investigates and qualifies suppliers. Monitors market trends and conditions.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
· Set-up and maintain the purchasing and delivery arrangements for all materials needed to meet production needs.
· Ensures cost-effective purchasing arrangements are in place for both internal and external customers and suppliers.
· Performs negotiation and contract set-up.
· Work with accounts payable and receiving department to reconcile purchases.
· Leads complex vendor negotiations and contract set-up.
· Performs analysis of supplier performance.
· Offers advice to management on how to improve margins.
· Negotiates optimum arrangements for pricing and delivery of materials.
· Works through challenging materials management issues and sets up cost effective programs such as vendor managed inventory and Kanban.
· Understand engineering drawings.
· Has a focus on personal safety as well as the safety of others around them; actively participates on assigned safety team.
· Responsible for the quality of their work.
· All duties as assigned to assist in the success of the purchasing function.
Minimum Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Purchasing & Supply Management plus 3-5 years in purchasing related function.
· Proficient using Microsoft Office software (Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint).
· Must be detail oriented and possess strong organizational and mathematical skills.
· Strong negotiation skills and the ability to source vendors.
· Ability to optimize business system.
Preferred Qualifications
· North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) experience a plus.
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Interested candidates should submit a resume to for consideration.
Peerless Food Equipment is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
For individuals with disabilities who may need help with the application process, Peerless offers a contact to evaluate requests for assistance and, where appropriate, provide a reasonable accommodation to help the applicants to apply. If you would like this assistance, please send your request to . Note: Only requests for assistance to apply due to a disability will be responded to.
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