Global Buyer/Planner ( 1 yr Contract)

Bruker is enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker’s high performance scientific instruments and high value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular, and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity, and customer success in life science molecular and cell biology research, in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, as well as in industrial applications. Bruker offers differentiated, high-value life science and diagnostics systems and solutions in preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics research, proteomics and multiomics, spatial and single-cell biology, functional structural and condensate biology, as well as in clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics. Today, worldwide more than 8500 employees are working on this permanent challenge at over 90 locations.

Bruker continues to build upon its extensive range of products and solutions, its broad base of installed systems and a strong reputation among its customers. Being one of the world's leading analytical instrumentation companies, Bruker is strongly committed to further fully meet its customers’ needs as well as to continue to develop state-of-the-art technologies and innovative solutions for today's analytical questions.

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The Global - Buyer/Planner has the primary responsibility of providing material availability by issuing and controlling purchase orders and coordinating material requirements to ensure continuity of supply timed to meet production requirements in a global work environment. the incumbent is expected to be flexible with the daily working hours due to the operating model and Bruker's Global foot print.

Responsibilities:

Tactical Procurement Execution:

• Coordinates demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
• Forecasts and communicates engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers.
• Under some supervision, creates, releases and updates new project materials strategy.
• Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection Coordinates and provides product development process deliverables through matrix management of buyers such as:
• Actively manage RFQs, provide COGs estimate for new products or assemblies, and mitigate continuity of supply challenges both internally and externally

Strategic Sourcing Support:

• Coordinates activities around source selection, specification creation and price negotiation with appropriate team members to receive materials at the right cost, quality, and lead time to improve our working capital goals.
• Collaborates with engineering team to interpret engineering requirements for product development process as it relates to buying materials accurately, according to specifications, on time and on budget.
• Assists in supplier price and delivery negotiations; under direct supervision may negotiate contracts as necessary. Utilizes the preferred supplier selection and assessment process when selecting suppliers. Completes supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts. Monitors supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost).
• Provides input to outsourcing decisions by performing make versus buy analysis.
• Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering. Utilizes value analysis on build-to-print components in support of Should Cost analysis

Supplier Improvement:

• Executes commercialization and transition plans to meet business objectives and plan of record.
• Generates and publishes Key Process Indicators (KPI) to include buyer and supplier performance data such OTD, cost saving and lead time reduction.
• Actively mediates and partners with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups. Escalate issues to Commodity Managers when necessary.
• May lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.

Qualifications:

Education and/or Experience requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, engineering, business, economics or related field
• Minimum 3 years’ experience of supply chain, demand planning, purchasing, inventory control and /or supplier management
• Strong working proficiency with Microsoft Office, including expert level functionality with Excel
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working within and between ERP systems, and analytics software (PowerBI, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud, etc.
• Certificate in CPIM or CSCP strongly preferred
• Knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics

• Highly motivated and self-driven with a focus on successfully delivering results for the team and meeting overall company goals. Demonstrated capacity acting as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented with the ability to manage large amounts of data from various inputs and consolidate the information for critical business decisions (data analytics)
• Strong interpersonal, persuasion, influencing and collaboration skills required, working to build consensus. Ability to explain difficult or sensitive information in a cohesive and digestible way to broad audiences.
• Demonstrates flexibility and the ability to multi-task and balance competing priorities constantly and meet strict deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to anticipate and identify issues or barriers and generate solutions, using high level of personal discretion in decision making.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to create written communication that is properly structured providing clear, concise messages that draw well supported conclusions. Verbal communication skills required across all levels of the organization and with external vendors and suppliers.
• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of the financial aspects of Supply Chain operations and knowledge and proficiency across multiple practices within the Supply Chain function to understand, coordinate and communicate across the competing demands of each.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
• Agility to work within broad guidelines and policies in order to impact a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams.