Senior Buyer - Manufacturing - Chicago Northern Suburbs

As a Senior Buyer - Manufacturing - Chicago Northern Suburbs, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Working with 14 suppliers in domestic and overseas for purchase order releasing, delivery schedule confirmation, production plan tracking on a weekly basis.
• Project/Non-Flow-Business based demand & supply planning to ensure 100% on time delivery.
• Demand analysis and continuous monitoring on a weekly basis: act and plan based on demand change, including expediting or holding-back supplies, inventory level adjustment on Finished Goods and components.
• Schedule weekly production with 3rd-party packaging provider and relationship management.
• Playing a key role in creating an unbiased, accurate demand plan that is critical for planning material flow throughout the supply chain
• Applying market intelligence to the demand plan. Market intelligence may come from sales, marketing, key accounts, and other sources
• Leveraging forecast performance metric tools to measure accuracy, assess the quality and frequency of overrides, assess forecast bias, and identify and address the largest sources of forecast error
• Participating in and possibly facilitating the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Demand Review meetings by business portfolio. This process focuses on the alignment between the demand plan and the business plan (OP/QOR)
• Maximizing the effectiveness of the statistical forecast by adjusting/ cleansing historical demand and determining appropriate levels of aggregation for calculating the statistical forecast

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