If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses (https://www.idexcorp.com/our-businesses/business-segments/) around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

Position Summary:

The Strategic Buyer will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing the supply chain operations of the business. The candidate will focus on sourcing, analyzing, and improving supplier relationships to achieve cost savings, process efficiencies, and value creation.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Support Daily Purchasing Operations

• Once PRs are placed and approved, release POs to vendors.

• Track order acknowledgements and maintain a clean open order report to keep a pulse on order statuses.

• Proactively communicate, delays and risks vs planned delivery with internal and external parties.

Cost Saving Project Management

• Understands the sourcing implications to broader business and owns a component of productivity and DMI reporting by identifying opportunities to reduce costs, complexity, or risk

• Drive process improvements to reduce costs, risks, and enhance supplier relationships while minimizing amount of inventory on hand.

Sourcing Strategies and Compliance

• Develop, plan, and implement sourcing strategies which includes finding innovative solutions to create enhanced value and reduced risk in stockouts.

• Identify and implement optimal inventory management systems which includes managing current Kanban system for consumables.

• Supplier base development: Identify and facilitate potential new supplier(s) to support new product/initiatives/processes development by staying informed of the industry’s trends

• Communicate with and engineering regarding product lifecycle changes due to regulation changes or component obsolescence.

• Establish strategic sourcing playbook/process to allow for scalability

Supplier Management and Risk Mitigation

• Manage supplier relationships, build trust, and address performance issues.

• Ensure all controlled information is transferred to vendors vis the secure portal.

• Implement risk management, including identifying second sources for critical materials.

• Track and report supplier performance internally and externally (scorecards), including cost savings and spend.

• Communicate product lifecycle changes due to regulations or obsolescence.

• Collaborate with quality team for vendor qualifications and audits.

Spend Analysis and Cost Optimization

• Identify, develop, and implement optimized cost source of supply for critical commodities.

• Provide in-depth spend analysis, supplier assessments, and financial perspectives.

• Initiate requests for competitive bids.

Credentials & Experience:

• Degree in business, supply chain management, engineering or equivalent

• Experience in a manufacturing environment

• Experience in working with ERP systems

• Prior supply chain or procurement experience

• Excellent communication skills

• Travel required less than once a quarter

Requirements:

Certain positions with IDEX Corporation and its business units require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been granted refugee or asylum status.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

Total Rewards

The compensation range for this position is $74,200.00 - $111,400.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.

Benefits Package

Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefit-and-rewards/

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer . IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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Job Family: Operations

Business Unit: Advanced Thin Films