Senior Buyer

**Job Title:** Senior Buyer **Reports To:** Purchasing Manager **Location:** On-site at our office in Antigo, WI or Wausau, WI **Job Summary** The Senior Buyer is responsible for mentoring other buyers and facilitates the procurement of materials and services from domestic sources in accordance with policies and procedures. The Senior Buyer possesses a broad range of experience including supply chain management, contract review, price and term negotiations, volume contract bidding across multiple locations, and supplier onboarding and risk mitigation strategies. **Essential Duties** - Mentor senior buyers, buyers, and buyer/planners to support continuous improvement within the procurement team and strengthen organizational depth. - Review and analyze Material Resource Planning (MRP) data, adjust planning parameters, process purchase orders, manage acknowledgments/follow-ups, and ensure inventory control. - Maintain supplier contracts and promote optimal system setup to support efficient ordering practices. - Capture and report cost savings through bid processes and negotiations, utilizing volume contract bidding tools where appropriate to ensure measurable savings are achieved. - Lead new product development sourcing initiatives, obtain quotes, set up items in database in accordance with standardized naming conventions. - Follow through with adding costs and supplier contracts and update planning parameters. - Source products, research, develop, audit, review capacity of new suppliers, and obtain appropriate documentation, such as COI-certificates of insurance and indemnification requirements, based on supplier risk level. - Resolve quality issues through root cause analysis, securing replacement goods or credits as necessary. - Collaborate with management and internal/external stakeholders to review customer, planning, and scheduling requirements and ensure accurate product codes and general ledger account assignments. **Required Skills and Abilities** - Ability to communicate in both the written and spoken language of English to a level that will allow the safe and effective performance of the job. - Ability to work from and understand verbal instructions. - Ability to handle stress in a fast-paced environment. - Ability to successfully manage multiple projects and deadlines. - Ability to effectively work with resource planning system, spreadsheets, word processing documents, and other applicable computer systems and software, especially Microsoft Excel. - Excellent interpersonal, listening, and negotiation skills. - Strong critical thinking, troubleshooting, and analytical skills. - Capacity to calculate, analyze, and track figures and make competent decisions based on those figures. - Communication, teamwork, and customer service skills are critically important as the employee is expected to work directly and indirectly with all levels of employees, customers, and outside vendors. - Consistently demonstrate a high level of responsibility and accountability in assigned tasks. **Education and Experience** - Knowledge of business principles and supply chain practices normally acquired by the completion of a Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field and/or equivalent work experience. - Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in purchasing, domestic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and strategic procurement processes. **Physical Requirements** - Ability to stand, walk, and move around for extended periods of time. - Capability to lift and carry objects of various weights up to 50 pounds occasionally. - Proficiency in using hands, fingers, and arms for tasks such as typing and writing. - Sufficient visual acuity to read documents and recognize details at close and distant ranges. - Ability to hear and understand verbal communication. - Flexibility to bend, stoop, and reach low or high objects. - Ability to perform physically demanding tasks, such as lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying heavy objects. - Adaptability to w…