Specialist

Flex; Chennai; On-site; INR 550,000 - 850,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

PTO

Job summary

Flex in Chennai is seeking a Buyer Direct to coordinate procurement of direct materials and components, ensuring timely delivery and cost efficiency.

Based in Chennai, you will manage supplier relationships, place orders, track shipments, maintain inventory accuracy, and support production planning. This role requires 1–2 years of procurement experience, ERP/MS Office skills, and strong English communication.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of procurement experience.
• Knowledge of ERP software and MS Office.
• Strong written and verbal English.

Responsibilities

• Maintain relations with suppliers and vendors.
• Place and amend purchase orders based on production plans.
• Track shipments and ensure on-time deliveries.
• Maintain procurement records and supplier performance data.
• Collaborate with warehouses and logistics for efficient inbound flow.

Skills

Procurement experience

Supplier management

Data entry

Communication

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

PowerPoint

ERP software

Job description

Job Description:

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

Summary:

The “Buyer Direct” will be based in Chennai.

This role will be coordinating activities involved with procuring direct materials, components and equipment.

What a typical day looks like:

• Maintaining relations with the suppliers.
• Placing orders for necessary raw materials and purchased parts according to the requirements of the production.
• Receiving and handling the confirmations.
• Checking the purchase orders and modifying them according to the changes in the production plan with the help of the Shortage List and the Open Purchase Order List.
• Tracking shipments, urging them if needed.
• Regular, weekly check of the stocks, avoiding overstock.
• Minimizing the risk of obsolescence with the help of the weekly check of the obsolete report.
• Correspondence with the freight forwarders, warehouses, and in case organizing the transportation.
• Dealing with claims, settling debit and credit issues.
• Filing and recording all necessary documents.
• Checking the inventory of critical materials (personally if needed) according to the Shortage List.
• Getting in touch with the right warehouse personnel and having the discrepancy modified if there is any inventory discrepancies.
• Handling purchasing data privacy.
• Assuring all active components according to production needs, in time, for the accord price in the request.
• Reviews requisitions and MRP output.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
• Orders, reschedules and cancels material based on requisitions and MRP output.
• Maintains procurement records such as items purchased, costs, delivery and inventories.
• Manages supplier to price, delivery and quality expectations and escalates when appropriate.
• Approves invoices for payment.
• Investigation inventory levels.
• Monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle.
• Conducts quarterly supplier reviews.
• Maintains procurement records, reports and metrics.
  

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a minimum of 1 to 2 years of procurement experience.
• Use of the following tools may be required: Working usage of Word, Excel and Power Point, English language knowledge, data entry, ten-key, spreadsheet (PC), ERP software.
• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to apply common sense comprehension to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Here are a few examples of what you will get for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance
• PTO

CF17

Job Category

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Flex pays for all costs associated with the application, interview or offer process, a candidate will not be asked for any payment related to these costs.

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