Senior Buyer

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Maxxon Corporation BENEATH IT ALL, MAXXON DELIVERS.
Senior Buyer Maxxon Corporation is a leading manufacturer of high-performance building materials in the construction industry.
With over 50 years of experience, Maxxon is known for its innovative solutions that enhance the durability, safety, and sustainability of construction projects worldwide.
Our products, ranging from underlayments and floor toppings to sound control and moisture mitigation systems, are trusted by architects, contractors, and building owners for their quality and reliability.
Our Opportunity The Senior Buyer is responsible for leading the coordination of buying, inventory management and demand planning functions across Maxxon’s product lines and sales channels.
As the Senior Buyer, you will play a crucial role in managing our procurement processes, maintaining supplier relationships, optimizing inventory across multiple warehouse and production locations and collaborating on the development of our inventory control systems.
Your expertise will contribute to the efficiency of our operations and ensure that we have the right products at the right time while minimizing costs.
The Senior Buyer will also be responsible for ensuring proper in-stock rates, turn-times and other KPI’s are developed and delivered.
The Senior Buyer will work with operations, customer service and finance teams to optimize purchasing, inventory and billing processes to drive efficiency at scale.
In addition, this person will work collaboratively with vendors and internal stakeholders to identify gaps and opportunities, then develop plans to help support anticipated sales growth.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Demand Planning: Collaborate with Procurement Manager, Product Manager and sales leaders to ensure proper inventory levels and to identify the proper demand needed for seasonal trends.
Manage order flow to ensure inventory is maintained to the optimum level to support sales forecasts and to maximize customer experience. Inventory Management:
Collaborate in the build out of Maxxon’s inventory management system.
Identify inefficiencies and develop strategies to mitigate them with the operations team. Drive to a scalable nationwide inventory model. Monitor and maintain inventory levels across sites. This includes managing the raw materials and production of Maxxon owned inventory, including powders, liquids, sound mat and ventilation products. Inventory Control:
Coordinate and document inventory counts across inventory sites.
Work with Maxxon’s controller to audit for inconsistencies. Perform quarterly physical counts across inventory sites to collaborate with site personnel to  understand inventory concerns and questions to drive toward better process optimization strategies. Inventory Performance Analysis:
Identify and document cost reduction opportunities and communicate them to key internal stakeholders.
Vendor Relationships:
Foster relationships with key vendor partners to develop strategic partnerships that will support anticipated sales growth.
Data Integrity:
Manage and maintain product information in Salesforce and other software platforms to support accurate product data for price lists, product costing analysis, logistics, etc.
Supply Chain Risk Management:
Work with Procurement Manager and Product Manager to analyze, identify, and propose mitigations to reduce both short-term and lifecycle quality and material availability risks for new product bills of material.
Sales & Purchase Order Processing:
Execute purchase orders based on demand planning, forecasted needs and safety stock targets.
Track inbound/outbound shipments, manage inter-site transfers and reconcile data using portals like Aljex, Banyan, Synapse and MetaViewer. Act as a backstop for sales order as well as order fulfillment Commercial Sales Billing:
Work with Operations Manager and Customer Service to support commercial sales channel billing.
All other duties as assigned. Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline with a minimum of 7+ years related experience in the industry.
Strong business knowledge and experience, with the ability to provide reporting and analysis of purchasing and inventory trends. Skills in planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating a wide variety of activities; developing, implementing and communicating policies and procedures throughout an organization. Excellent people skills, with an ability to collaborate with internal leaders and external partners. An adaptable mindset with the ability to multi-task; can work within an ambiguous, fast-moving work environment while also driving toward clarity and solutions. Integrity, credibility, a sensible risk-taking mindset, proactive leadership, and a forward-thinking, strategic mindset. Preferred Qualifications:
Manufacturing or distribution inventory management experience Salesforce and/or Great Plains experience Inventory Management Software experience What’s In It For Me?
Our team is extremely talented, passionate and supportive We promote and support balance, family, wellness and giving back to our community We support continued professional development Total compensation package with market competitive salary, benefits and growth opportunities Sound Like You? Interested in learning more? Let’s connect to continue the conversation and learn more about you! Powered by JazzHR
Location:
Medina
Job Type:
PartTime