Buyer - Flex PTP

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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Buyer located in Flex PTP.

Reporting to the Senior Materials Manager, the Buyer role is to coordinate 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 are any inventory discrepancies.
• 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.
• Investigates inventory levels.
• Monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle.
• Maintains procurement records, reports, and metrics.

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

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Use of the following tools may be required: Working usage of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 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.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision.
• Life Insurance.
• PTO.

How do your skills match this job?

Your application will include the following questions:

• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Malaysia?
• What's your expected monthly basic salary?
• How many years' experience do you have as a Buyer?
• Which of the following languages are you fluent in?
• Do you have experience completing material resource planning (MRP)?
• How would you rate your English language skills?
• Do you have previous invoicing experience?
• Do you have data entry experience?

Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics More than 10,000 employees.

Building on our more than 50-year history with a clear purpose, mission, and vision, Flex is the advanced end-to-end manufacturing partner of choice, helping market-leading brands across a diverse set of industries design, build, deliver, and manage products that improve the world.

Through the collective strength of a global workforce across 30 countries, and responsible, sustainable operations, Flex supports our customers’ entire product lifecycles with leading design and engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, post-production, and post-sale capabilities in every major region.