## Buyer DirectApply: Mexico, Guadalajara: Full time: Posted Yesterday: WD229376Flex 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 SummaryTo support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a **Buyer Direct** located in **Guadalajara, South Campus**.Reporting to the Director, Materials, Buyer Direct role involves being responsible for coordinates activities involved with procuring direct materials, components and equipment.**Responsibilities:*** 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.**Qualifications:*** Typically requires a minimum of 2 to 4 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, research and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.* Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedures.* Ability to effectively present information and acknowledges to questions from groups.* 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.**What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:*** Competitive Salary.* Life & Medical insurance.* Christmas Bonus.* Food Coupons.* Saving Fund.MG61