Senior Buyer

<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Trillium Flow Technologies, founded on a legacy of premier products and services, provides mission-critical valves, pumps, and aftermarket services for core societal infrastructure that includes water and wastewater, power generation including nuclear power, food and beverage, oil and gas equipment and general industry. Trillium is very customer centric to meet specific needs, provides innovative engineering design with a global footprint that is focused on meeting our customers’ original equipment and aftermarket needs.

We have an opening for a Senior Buyer at our Ipswich location.  The Senior Buyer is responsible for managing the procurement of goods and services for the company. This role involves negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring that all procurement activities comply with company policies and regulations.

Primary responsibilities include:

· Evaluate and execute all material requirement plans and be responsible for performance of your assigned suppliers and commodity KPIs

· Track material status, maintain data integrity and delivery dates for assigned work, and align forecasts with Production Planning in preparation for production.

· Maintain dependable forecasts of all open purchase orders, considering latest information provided by the supplier, logistics estimates, and other factors

· Review proposals, negotiate prices, develop and maintain best value sourcing and supply base, considering quality, delivery, and cost

· Update and maintain planning parameters within our ERP system for your assigned suppliers and commodities.

· Communicate openly and regularly with assigned suppliers on their performance including safety, quality, on-time delivery, and cost metrics.

· Develop methods to improve our purchasing strategies and tactics to further gain efficiencies in our processes, reduce lead time and eliminate non-value-added activities

· Coordinate with the cross-functional teams to effectively communicate areas of concern regarding assigned work.

· Travel to suppliers as necessary to develop strong relationships

· Complete additional related duties as assigned

Successful candidates will have the following qualifications 

· Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

· Minimum of 6 years Purchasing, Procurement, Materials Management or Supply Chain experience

· Applied experience using ERP systems

· Excellent communication, interpersonal and computer skills

· Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications

· Experience or familiarity with ASTM, or ASME related products

· APICS CPSM, CPIM, or similar Certification a differentiating plus

Salary Range = $90,000 to $100,000

<span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Trillium Flow Technologies is committed to an inclusive workplace, including hiring and retaining diverse talent. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and it is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. Trillium Flow is a background screening, drug-free workplace.