Planner/Buyer

Planner/Buyer

Permanent

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.

About Heraeus Medevio

Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.

To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.

Position Summary

The Planner/Buyer is responsible for scheduling and capacity planning to ensure revenue, profitability and on time delivery goals are achieved.  In this role, the Planner/Buyer will be a purchasing transaction generalist responsible for a wide variety of purchasing support, and be expected to provide excellent support, service and communication to all customers, internal. 

Your Role and Responsibilities:

• Prepare schedules in the ERP system and coordinate activities to ensure on time delivery, revenue and profitability. 
• Provides capacity planning figures for both HR requirements and machine requirements. 
• Monitor actual production vs. plan and provide analytical support for improvement opportunities. 
• Act as liaison between production, sales, purchasing, engineering and quality to ensure on time delivery.  Assist in identifying and eliminating bottlenecks.
• Completing purchases in accordance with specifications, price and policy.  Expediting to ensure timely delivery of purchase orders.
• Maintain purchasing data in vantage and monitor parts that are run on schedule.  Run time-phase reports and release shop orders needed and update sales order. 
• Maintain inventory levels throughout plant, continually monitoring and reducing levels whenever possible. 
• Provides short- and long-range projections on raw materials, price and supply situations to management for planning purposes, including yearly standard raw material costs and evaluations. 
• Coordinating the return of damaged goods, arranging for replacements or credits and documenting all transactions. 
• Assist with system implementation and improvements both with ERP and business systems. 
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

What is Required for This Role: 

• Associates degree or 2 years of work-related experience in a similar role.
• ERP experience, SAP preferred
• Fully Bilingual (Read, Speak, Write in English/Spanish) with good communication skills
• Ability to effectively improve processes with minimal direction and information
• Demonstrate a high level of initiative and creativity
• Detail oriented
• Computer savvy
• Distinguished through consistent display of leadership by example in accordance with HMC ethics statement