Buyer Planner
| Company | Light & Wonder |
|---|---|
| Location | North Carolina, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
Requirements
- Ability to work closely with other departments and suppliers.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate with all stakeholders in a professional and effective way
- Excellent communication skills.
- Detail oriented and well organized.
- Strong computer skills, specifically Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Ability to manage multiple projects.
- Understanding of drawings and BOM structures
- Understanding of Inventory Management and Supply Chain
- NetSuite experience is a plus
- Oracle experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Analyze demand requirements to determine most economical delivery
- Planning supply to meet customer demand requirements, ensuring pipeline of products to meet on time delivery commitments
- Manage product flow from order to delivery.
- Maintain Purchase Order data integrity and ensure promise date integrity
- Obtain supplier delivery commitments, and expedite if commitments don’t meet required dates
- Drive on-time delivery with suppliers and with customer deployments
- Collaboration with field service operations resources to ensure successful delivery of products and conformance to installation dates at customer sites
- Ensure PO pricing reflects the best possible price, or aligns with price changes laid out in supplier MSA’s
- Resolve supplier issues regarding pricing, delivery, receiving, and quality issues
- Maintain Purchasing attributes – price, lead time, addresses
- Reviews bills of materials accuracy and integrity
- Monitor on-time performance of incoming materials
- Monitor supplier performance to a continuous improvement plan, collaboration with vendor to drive continuous improvement
- Purchase materials for manufacturing and engineering requirements as assigned
- Make decisions and/or recommendations to drive lowest cost of ownership while maintaining commitments on customer deliveries
- Initiates, sponsors, and implements changes to RMA process where needed
- Manage refurbishment process to ensure that returned assets are assessed and restored
- Management of parts to ensure sufficient materials to maintain fleet of gaming terminals in the field.
- Engage in quality challenges and remediation of issues with vendors impacting quality
- Management of inventory control and inventory levels
- Monitors day-to-day supplier compliance to return of product at correct re-work cost
Preferred Qualifications
- NetSuite experience is a plus
- Oracle experience is a plus