It looks like you are visiting from a different region. Select your country or region for location-specific content.Sr Buyer**Description of Essential Job Functions:**Serve in a leadership role for all departmental or site purchasing activities. Work with the Purchasing Supervisor to set annual purchasing goals and initiatives. Gather preliminary part level data details, usage, logistics requirements, material specs, and drawings to issue RFQ’s in order to make supplier selection. Develop working product knowledge on assigned commodities. Estimate values according to knowledge of market price. Take a leadership role initiating APR and cost reduction activities on assigned commodities/materials, etc. without compromising quality. Where necessary, negotiate pricing, delivery and other relevant criteria. Utilize system to analyze material requirements and sales trends to place orders. Take a leadership role in investigating all options where suppliers lead time is in excess of the customer requirements. Work with materials group to adjust inventory levels as required by customer demand while maintaining adequate material safety stock. Develop and implement processes and improvements using data analysis to meet customer requirements and minimize excess and obsolete inventory. Work with the materials team, customer service, engineering, and suppliers to ensure all customer needs are met or exceeded. Review, approve, and support processing of invoices and work with suppliers/vendors and Finance to help resolve variances and pricing discrepancies. Complete all cross-training required to cover for all positions in the materials department, including receiving and other related duties. Assist with forecasts as needed. **Supervisory Responsibilities:**This job has no supervisory responsibilities. **Qualification Requirements**: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. **Education and Experience:**5-7 years of experience working in a purchasing, material planning, supply chain management, and/or inventory control function, preferably within a manufacturing, assembly, distribution center, or other industrial environment. Requires some prior experience with purchasing duties including MRP, JIT, and Kanban related techniques. Requires some prior experience with reading and interpreting engineering drawings. Experience creating “should be” costs from drawings and part samples. **Computer Skills**Ability to use a personal computer utilizing spreadsheet and word processing software applications, databases, automated systems, and MRP related software to accomplish work. Previous experience working with integrated computer programs and/or applications. 5-7 years of intermediate level ERP System experience preferred. Experience with JD Edwards preferred. Working knowledge of databases with ability to read and write basic SQL statements preferred. **We are the ASSA ABLOY Group** Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access.As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.Experience levelMid-senior levelLocationCarrollton, Texas, United States## Latest job openingsWe're looking for talented individuals to help us innovate and grow.#J-18808-Ljbffr