Buyer Planner

Job Description

Position Summary

This role owns the day-to-day planning, purchasing, and material flow for assigned product lines, ensuring the right material is in the right place at the right time to meet customer commitments. You’ll sit at the intersection of production, suppliers, and the shop floor — balancing capacity, inventory health, and supplier performance to keep manufacturing running smoothly and customers satisfied. The role blends tactical execution with continuous improvement, using data, ERP systems, and Lean principles to drive delivery, reduce waste, and strengthen supplier partnerships.

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently planning, purchasing, and managing of the assigned supply points and/or product lines and their respective suppliers to deliver finished products to the customer and maintaining a high level of customer service.
• Reviews open customer orders/shop orders, shop and/or equipment capacity and historical data to help prepare a daily production plan while working closely with Shop Floor supervisors to ensure all customer commitment dates are being met.
• Releases purchase orders for production material, floor stock items and all purchases to support the manufacturing needs for assigned product line.
• Gains specialized knowledge of specialty component options such as, but not limited to: roll from plate or pipe, shear from plate or flat bar, and alternate and unique material grades.
• Uses available inventory replenishment methods and practices to insure on hand minimums are kept, to minimize dead or slow moving and scrap inventory and maximum availability of inventory for active items.
• Knows how to resolve problems and discrepancies with quality, delivery dates, quantity, and invoicing of purchased commodities.
• Develops and manages the various databases to ensure systems work smoothly.
  • Profound
  • MRP
  • BPCS/CIC/BPA
  • Mendix
  • Qliksense
• Works with manager and operations management team to establish safety stock positions, best stocking locations and to re-size Kanbans and rack locations and sizing.
• Learns lean manufacturing principles, develops plans for streamlining processes and procedures and attends FEM cost reduction and inventory reduction meetings.
• Works well in a team environment including warehouse, manufacturing, customer service, maintenance, and shipping teams so customer requirement goals are met.
• Able to adapt quickly and knows several problem-solving techniques.
• Is proficient in expediting suppliers and logistics and is familiar with impact order management. Escalates when necessary.
• Can manage tactical duties with Suppliers and report out on Supplier Performance.
• Appraise vendors’ performance based on metrics such as on time delivery, accuracy and quality of material and owns the tactical day to day supplier relationship.
• Participate in and use Quality Improvement Process in resolving problems in the work environment.

• Qualifications: (Education, Experience, Personal Attributes)
• Minimum Associates Degree (2yr)
• AS400/ Profound preferred
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in Purchasing, Material Control or Manufacturing planning
• Strong analytical problem solving ability
• Customer Service driven
• Good oral and written communications skills
• Experience in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Suite is required.
• Must be goal and detail oriented, reliable, self-motivated, and able to multi-task effectively.
• Thorough understanding of steel and rubber specifications and tolerances.
• Good organizational and analytical problem-solving skills required.
• Knowledge of Country of Origin and/or domestic or AIS requirements

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. 

EEO Statement: Victaulic is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EOE/M/F/Vets/Disabled) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic data, or other legally protected status 

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All staffing agencies are strictly forbidden from directly contacting any Victaulic employees, except those within the Human Resources/Talent Acquisition team. All communications, inquiries and candidate submissions must be routed through Victaulic's Human Resources/Talent Acquisition team. Non-compliance with this policy may result in the suspension of partnership, cancellation of the current contract, and/or the imposition of a mandatory probation period before any future business can resume. Additionally, non-compliance may lead to a permanent ban on future business. This policy ensures a streamlined and compliant recruitment process.