Supply Chain Planner/Buyer

Americas (Pune, India)

About Optimas:

Optimas is a global distributor of integrated supply chain solutions, and engineering support focused on delivering fasteners, components, industrial and safety supplies to our diverse customers around the world. Our local, on-the-ground teams understand the nuances of every community we serve. This allows us to adapt with our customers and partners as needs evolve, leveraging our footprint to remain at your side while providing a highly personalized level of service and support no matter where you find yourself around the globe.

To learn more, please visit our website http://www.optimas.com/

Position overview:

Optimas is looking for an enthusiastic and driven Supply Chain Planner/Buyer, responsible for optimizing product availability through outstanding collaboration with external suppliers as well as other members of the Supply Chain, Sourcing, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support Teams.

• This role will work for  America’s team and working hours that will be India 3rd shift. This role is work from office based in India.

Principal Activities:

• Maintain strong supplier relationships.
• Meet and/or exceed service expectations and initiatives of the business.
• Partner with the Sales, Sourcing and Operations teams to address urgent customer needs.
• Adhere and perform to the supply chain planner/buyer key performance indicators.
• Adhere to and embrace the THREAD values of Optimas.

Key responsibilities:

• Communicating effectively with suppliers to maintain a strong relationship.
• Actioning order planning/purchasing signals and acknowledgement process and then keeping the orderbook aligned with system requirements, efficiently resolving any day-to-day supply issues.
  • Identifying and resolving potential supply risks, expediting parts where needed to ensure continued supply of parts to our customers
  • Manage inventory levels by actioning messages in DOB (expedite, cancel and defer messages).     
• Monitor supplier compliance to agreed terms in system (costs, lead-times and moq’s.)
• Communicating effectively with the Operations team to ensure timely receipt of parts and swift resolution of shipping and invoice queries.
• Collaborate with Technical Service Department and external suppliers on Quality issues.
• Collaborate with Sales, Supply Chain Analysts and the Demand Planning Team, identifying issues and performing root cause analysis to improve the system forecast.
• Utilize Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reporting to optimize inventory investment.
• Other tasks and duties as assigned.

Key Competencies:

The ideal candidate must have the following competencies:

• Fluent in English
• Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
• High level of problem-solving skills with attention to detail. Ability to exercise and apply critical thinking to day-to-day situations
• Experience in outlook, excel and PowerPoint (for example: using formulas, inserting charts, sorting, pivot tables).
• Knowledge of materials management, supply chain, distribution, warehousing and purchasing.
• Results driven with a positive attitude.
• Embrace change.
• Collaboration and Influence.
• Customer value and Market focus.

Skills and Qualifications:

Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in purchasing in a manufacturing environment/working directly with industrial manufacturing suppliers

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Degree in Supply Chain Management, Management, or similar field combined with a minimum of two (2) years’ experience in purchasing in a manufacturing environment/working directly with industrial manufacturing suppliers.

• Working knowledge of purchasing and supply chain concepts with APICS, CPIM, NAPM certification and/or association a plus.

This is an exciting opportunity for career development within a growing, global company. If you are ambitious and positive with good communication and administration skills, this is the role for you!

Optimas OE Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Optimas OE Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.