Operations buyer – responsibilities
the operations buyer is accountable for supporting operations with external supply issues, providing support to category teams, and managing indirect procurement needs not covered by regional contracts.
* implement regional indirect contracts and handle indirect purchases outside regional contracts.
* negotiate and implement engineering changes affecting serial production parts post‑phase 5 sign‑off.
* support the category management team in implementing strategy or productivity initiatives.
* collaborate with the commodity manager for supplier performance management (quality, cost, delivery).
* provide procurement input to the supplier scorecard for the branch.
* serve as first‑level branch escalation to the procurement organization for supplier‑related issues.
* upload and update serial price changes, ensuring accuracy in plant erp across serial product lifecycle.
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