Buyer/supervisor

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If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone

Lead and manage the site supply chain team to deliver site-operational objectives and provide outstanding supply chain service levels on quality and delivery whilst achieving lowest total cost of acquisition for direct material, indirect goods and services, and logistics.

Be an integral part of site management team, representing strategies and objectives of Global Supply Chain team (GSC).

Drive deployment of supply chain processes and resource development while adhering to company policies and procedures.

**SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY**
- Site Annual spend of approximately $10M USD for direct material, and $XM USD for indirect, excluding capital.
- Manage the team of Buyers who are responsible for acting on order suggestions (requisition or other) and exception messages generated by MRP system.
- In collaboration with the Global Supplier Performance Group, manage supplier performance (on-time delivery and quality) for site specific deliveries/suppliers.
- Track and improve site supply chain KPIs vs those defined by the Platform Supply Chain Director/Global Supply Chain.
- Drive cost reduction initiatives aligned with GSC strategies to meet annual operating plan (AOP) and long-term business objectives.
- Manage, minimize / eliminate supplier inflation/price increase request(s) and escalate to appropriate **Global Supply Chain team for further leverage accordingly.**:

- Support site PWC objectives by leveraging inventory management opportunities and supplier payment terms (examples:Make vs. Buy strategy / Supplier Managed Inventory programs / Net 60 days as minimum supplier pay term).
- In coordination with the respective teams within the Global Supply Chain, ensure utilization of strategic tools and processes to achieve objectives of improved on-time delivery and quality and reduced cycle times and total cost of acquisition:

- ERP system
- APQP/ PPAP
- Procurement Control plans
- On
- time delivery / PDBL reduction
- Top Focus supplier improvement
- Manufacturing Process Review
- Supplier audits/assessments
- Capacity & constraint management
- Supplier Quality Manual
- Facilitate and oversee critical supply-site quality issues between Operations, Engineering, Customers and Suppliers as required. Support and lead NCR, CAR, and capacity/lead-time improvement initiatives for locally managed suppliers (and coordinate with the Supplier Performance Group for centrally managed suppliers).
- Work with platform and GSC cross-functional teams to support & drive sourcing initiatives to reduce costs, rationalize supply base and leverage new technologies.
- Support any supply chain initiative roll-out across the enterprise or ad-hoc requests as requested by line manager.
- Working with all business partners to understand a rolling 12-18 month forecast for all products.
- Ensure Forecasting and contractual coverage is in place for all suppliers, in line with current Delegation of Authority (DOA).
- Build close relationships with our 1st Tier suppliers, to ensure they take full ownership of 2nd/3rd tier suppliers, and have access to all 3rd party supplies, eliminating any Free Issue material.
- Work with Engineering and Product Management to manage end of life issues, and identify alternative parts to satisfy ongoing demand
- Report spends and savings in line with current tools and processes.
- Monitor the condition of all tooling to ensure proactive maintenance is conducted to avoid and delays in the supply chain.
- In conjunction with Quality Assurance (EX Coordinator), understand and help to ensure all product approvals and certification are maintained.
- Maintain the Risk register for suppliers.
- Maintain the AIM register for all tooling owned by Flowserve.
- Working with core 1st tier suppliers, ensuring continuity of supplies between each other, to avoid conflicts in final deliveries to Flowserve

**MAIN OBJECTIVES**
- Increase supply chain productivity via PO/POA automation, supplier consolidation, leveraging MRP tools and global supply chain reporting tools.
- Develop and grow in-house organizational and process capabilities of site Supply Chain team.
- Setting of and monitoring progress of individual team member PMPs along with departmental Goals & Objectives in support & alignment of site/business objectives.
- Identificatio