Strategic Materials Buyer (Remote)

Philippines (PHC1) Avid Philippines; Philippines; Remote; PHP 450,000 - 850,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Avid Philippines is seeking a procurement professional to support on-time delivery of products at the best price while minimizing production inventory. You will manage purchasing, materials requirements planning, inventory levels, supplier performance, and ERP data maintenance throughout the production life cycle.

You will collaborate with product quality, order fulfillment, manufacturing engineering, sourcing, and logistics teams to achieve on-time delivery, optimized costs, availability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business/supply chain or Industrial Engineering preferred.
• 1–2 years in supply chain procurement, planning, or sourcing.
• Experience purchasing electro-mechanical assemblies with PCBA content preferred.
• Familiarity with NetSuite or similar ERP systems.
• Lean manufacturing, supply chain, and inventory strategies preferred.
• Experience using Third Party Logistics for finished goods storage.
• Ability to understand inventory impact on cash flow and costs.
• Proven ability to set and achieve goals and meet objectives.
• Strong MS Office skills for updates, reports, and supplier communications.
• Experience using AI to solve problems and improve efficiency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Cross functional and cross company partnership with product quality, order fulfillment, manufacturing engineering, sourcing, new product introduction, and logistics teams to support customer success.
• Deliver against metrics for on-time delivery, approved cost, availability, and on-time shipment.
• Manage suppliers to minimize excess, obsolete inventory, and shortages.
• Understand material requirements planning to judge the accuracy of and need to act upon purchase requisitions.
• Approve and execute engineering changes or deviations impacting material availability, obsolescence, and throughput.
• Support product manufacturing life cycles with focus on introduction, growth, and phase-out.
• Includes calculating and executing last time buy purchases followed by stock depletion.
• Understand supplier contracts and KPIs to support supplier performance and protect from inventory liability.
• Partner with sourcing to optimize supplier selections.
• ERP data maintenance including purchase info, source lists, lead-times, MOQs, ROPs, and safety stocks.
• Prompt resolution of invoice discrepancies with accounts payable to allow on time payment.

Skills

Procurement

ERP systems

Vendor management

Demand planning

MS Excel

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in business / supply chain / Industrial Engineering

Tools

NetSuite

ERP systems

Job description

Avid Philippines is seeking a procurement professional to support on-time delivery of products at the best price while minimizing production inventory. You will manage purchasing, materials requirements planning, inventory levels, supplier performance, and ERP data maintenance throughout the production life cycle.

You will collaborate with product quality, order fulfillment, manufacturing engineering, sourcing, and logistics teams to achieve on-time delivery, optimized costs, availability, and