Senior Buyer

Position Description

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Buyer to join the Data Center Power & Control Division in Canonsburg, PA. The Senior Buyer will be responsible for all purchasing necessary to keep the plant equipped with materials to service our customers.  Responsibility will include ordering and expediting raw materials while balancing stock out and over-ordering to support production and New Product launches.

This new opening is available due to the ongoing growth and expansion at our largest US facility. 

What Will You Do?

• Plans, schedules, and manages purchase orders for production and NPD.
• Monitors supplier prices and maintains cost control in collaboration with the sourcing teams.
• Maintain a positive business relationship with suppliers, which includes communication with key contacts, pricing, and supply discussions, identifying and disseminating new product opportunities to the appropriate people, and handling the resolution of quality and supply issues.
• Resolve situations related to material shortages, supplier quality, and delivery delays. Collaborate with Operations, Sourcing, Engineers, and suppliers to ensure supplier performance.
• Collaborate with Accounts Payable/Receivables to resolve purchase price variations.
• Use category expertise and vendor-specific knowledge to manage inventory levels for all assigned items, suppliers, and categories while maintaining service level targets for our customers across multiple distribution centers.
• Deliver KPIs for task-specific goals such as OTD, Days-Inventory-On-Hand, Excess and Obsolete Inventory (E&O), and Spoilage.
• Responsible for daily purchasing, including negotiating prices with suppliers and creating efficient purchase orders with our suppliers by analyzing economic order quantities, forecasts, lead times, vendor set-up, safety stock, etc. Receive confirmation, track orders, send invoices, arrange transportation, and resolve any issues promptly.
• Review projected out-of-stock reports proactively daily to ensure we deliver on customer order fulfillment.
• Establish sharp communication with internal partners about supplier production delays or order shortages while urgently pursuing recovery options.
• Collaborate with internal and external business partners to reduce overstock, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.

Qualifications

Required Skills

Education and Experience:           

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management or Business Management or equivalent experience.
• CPM/PMP/APICS (CPIM or CSCP) certification preferred.
• 5 years experience purchasing materials.
• MRP or ERP software experience, Infor Cloud preferred.
• Experience with a high concentration in steel, copper, or electronics markets preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Flexibility to adjust and thrive in an environment with changing requirements, schedules, and priorities for multiple projects and assignments.
• Strong desire to promote positive change.
• Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups.
• Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Well-developed communication skills: able to clearly and concisely express information (or data) to associates, peers, and management.
• Creative, entrepreneurial-minded, with a strong comfort level of taking measurable risks.
• Demonstrate analytical experience, critical thinking skills, project management, negotiation, customer service, and team-building skills.
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally 10 - 15%.

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements:

• Primary environment: ambient room temperatures, lighting, and traditional office equipment as found in a typical office environment.
• The performance of this position may occasionally require exposure to the manufacturing areas where certain areas require the use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses and mandatory hearing protection.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, and communicate with others.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods; ability to fly for extended periods of time.
• Able to lift and carry up to 25 lbs.

Company Info

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us 

About Legrand’s Data Center Power and Control Division

The industry-leading brands of Approved Networks, Ortronics, Raritan, Server Technology, and Starline empower Legrand’s Data, Power & Control to produce innovative solutions for data centers, building networks, and facility infrastructures. Our division designs, manufactures, and markets world-class products for a more productive and sustainable future. The exceptional reliability of our technologies results from decades of proven performance and a dedication to research and development. 

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