Buyer II

TekWissen LLC

Bloomington, MN

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$30–$31.44
LOCATION
Bloomington, MN
POSTED
6 days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: Buyer II
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota 55435
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Summary
Indirect Materials Procurement is responsible for the procurement of indirect material including but not limited to spare parts, production supply, packaging, facility supplies, tooling / fabrication, and services for the factory. This role involves budget planning, supplier management, and inventory control to support operational needs.
Key Responsibilities
  • Reviews and analyzes purchase requisitions.
  • Coordinates purchasing activities with manufacturing, facility, and engineering departments to acquire inventory in a cost-effective and timely manner.
  • Processes Request for Quotation, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, and change requests if any.
  • Responsible for procurement business system data input and integrity.
  • Participates in maximizing the procurement teams' changes, supplier database information, error report analysis, and supplier information.
  • Performs cost analysis and works with requesters for volume planning for major commodities (e.g., materials, components, equipment, and services).
  • Monitors the cost, schedule, and scope of assigned suppliers to negotiate highest quality at best value.
  • Interacts closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers on any quality concerns to resolve quality issues.
  • Escalates critical issues to the relevant stakeholders and superiors.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field.
Skills
  • Purchasing and supplier management skills.
  • Critical thinking skills.
  • Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
  • Strong negotiating skills to secure the best prices.
  • Good computer skills (SAP ERP, Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint) are a must.
  • Good data analytic and data science skills (Excel, Knime, Alteryx, Power BI, Python) are preferable.
Experience
  • Relevant experience preferred.
  • Purchasing and Supplier Management.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/