Strategic buyer job description

Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc\. is a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles, snowmobiles, side\-by\-sides, all\-terrain vehicles, professional turf\-care equipment, and ground support equipment\. Textron Specialized Vehicles markets products under several different brands\. Its vehicles are found in environments ranging from golf courses to factories, airports to planned communities, and theme parks to hunting preserves\.
**Responsibilities:**

* Analyze raw material demand for purchase and on\-time delivery in a MRP environment to ensure accuracy and adherence to the established schedule and to identify potential improvements\.

* Place purchase orders and expedite materials to meet weekly production plans\.

* Implement and document comprehensive plans for all part number changes or usage changes\.

* Analyze domestic and international shipping forecasts to achieve optimal inventory levels\.

* Track actual and potential supply and delivery to provide timely communications and analysis to management\.

* Assess supplier performance against predetermined goals by monitoring quality acceptance rates, delivery performance, and cost savings performance\.

* Disposition discrepant material as needed\.

* Create purchase orders and ensure appropriate delivery\.

* Communicate with vendors to obtain product, price, availability, and delivery information\.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications:**

* Education: : Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field required

* Years of Experience: 2\-4 or more years of experience required with proven leadership ability

* Software Knowledge: SAP, Microsoft Office \(Word, Excel, and PowerPoint\)

**EEO Statement**

Textron is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of, race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, handicap, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law\.

**Pay Transparency Policy Statement**

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant\. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise, have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is \(a\) in response to a formal complaint or charge, \(b\) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or \(c\) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information\.

**Job** Supply Chain

**Primary Location** US\-Georgia\-Cartersville

**Recruiting Company** Textron Specialized Vehicles

**Schedule** Full\-time

**Job Level** Individual Contributor

**Shift** First Shift

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**Job Purpose and Impact**

The Strategic Sourcing Buyer will handle basic country or multicounty sourcing routine activities by leading sourcing projects, monitoring compliance and track supplier performance. In this role, you will coordinate and execute low to medium complex procurement requirements to provide inputs to the global category team.

**Key Accountabilities**

+ Execute medium complex requests for sourcing process.

+ Drive implementation of local sourcing decisions and support local implementation of regional or global sourcing decisions.

+ Provide local inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.

+ Build and apply a comprehensive understanding of local, stakeholder and procurement landscape.

+ Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of non contracted materials, goods, services and supplies.

+ Administer transactions associated with obtaining goods and services.

+ Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

+ Other duties as assigned

**Position Information**

+ The position is based in Wayzata, MN, Blair, NE, or Wichita, KS.

+ Relocation assistance is not provided for this role

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

+ Microsoft Office experience.

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Project Management experience

+ Sourcing experience

+ Power BI and/or SAP experience

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

At Cargill, everyone matters and everyone counts. Cargill is committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. As such and in alignment with our Guiding Principles, Cargill's long-standing equal employment opportunity policy prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, family status, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, union affiliation, or any other status protected by law.

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Responsibilities

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Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Ensure high leverage in supplier selection, approval, negotiations, and performance management
* Work closely with Procurement FP&A resources to design KPIs, track progress, and adjust strategies to ensure continual improvement of Cost and Supply Base performance
* Drive IT integration with key suppliers to automate transactions and communications
* Establish long-term, cost-competitive supplier relationships at high-performance standards
* Provide leadership for assigned categories through category councils or individual contributions
* Engage with functional/business unit stakeholders and other subject matter experts to ensure sourcing strategy is aligned to and capitalizes on supplier's technology/product road-maps to drive innovation
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* Optimization of the total cost of ownership leveraging Fact-based elements (i.e. supplier price breakdown, including processing cost obtained through either internal calculations, external benchmarking, market-driven pricing, etc.)
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Qualifications

What you'll need

* B.S. Degree in Business or technical-related discipline required
* 5+ years of procurement experience
* Ability to travel at least 25% (some may be international)
* Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office, SAP, and related systems
* Ability to lead and/or work well in cross-functional teams
* Strategic Category Planning knowledge
* Total Cost of Ownership understanding & analysis
* Highly skilled in Fact-based negotiation
* Product & category expertise
* Ability in Supplier & Cost analysis
* Contract management skills
* Supplier relationship management
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