Buyer

Bruker; Carteret (NJ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Medical and dental plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Bruker is seeking a Buyer for the Carteret, NJ site to manage day-to-day procurement of MRO materials, parts, services, and indirect supplies essential for manufacturing and facilities operations.

The successful candidate will handle purchase requisitions, PO placement, supplier coordination, and expediting to ensure materials are available when needed. A minimum of 5 years in purchasing and experience with SAP S/4 HANA MM is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, supply chain, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of purchasing experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• Experience with MRO materials, indirect materials, services, or parts.
• ERP experience; SAP S/4 HANA MM preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Excel and basic purchasing processes.

Responsibilities

• Procure MRO materials, spare parts, tools, consumables, and services.
• Verify PO details: material descriptions, specs, quantities, pricing, delivery.
• Obtain quotations and perform price comparisons for routine purchases.
• Negotiate pricing, delivery, MOQs, and terms within authority.
• Manage open POs from placement to delivery and resolve issues.
• Monitor delivery status and expedite as needed to support production.
• Coordinate issues with invoicing, quality, returns, and shortages.
• Maintain supplier relationships and support qualification/onboarding.
• Monitor usage, lead times, and inventory levels to prevent stockouts.
• Maintain purchasing data in SAP and related systems.

Skills

Procurement knowledge

Negotiation

Communication

Excel skills

ERP systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related

APICS CPIM or ISM CPSM certification a plus

Tools

SAP S/4 HANA (MM)

MS Excel

Job description

Overview

As one of the world’s leading analytical instrumentation companies, Bruker covers a broad spectrum of advanced solutions in all fields of research and development. All our systems and instruments are designed to improve safety of products, accelerate time-to-market and support industries in successfully enhancing quality of life. We’ve been driving innovation in analytical instrumentation for 60 years now. Today, worldwide more than 11,000 employees are working on this permanent challenge, at over 90 locations on all continents.

Responsibilities

Please note this position is 100% onsite out of our Carteret, NJ location.

Bruker Energy and Supercon Technologies (Bruker EST) is the world leader in the production of superconducting wires. For more than 50 years, our high performance superconductors have met the needs of healthcare, academic and industrial organizations worldwide, helping drive new discoveries in the clinical and pharmaceutical sectors, including the breakthrough technology of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning, advanced materials science, and sustainable energies.

Reporting to the Supplier Relationship Manager, the Buyer is responsible for the timely and cost-effective procurement of Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) materials, indirect materials, services, spare parts, tools, consumables, and other operational supplies required to support Bruker OST's manufacturing and facility operations.

The position manages day-to-day purchasing activities from purchase requisition through purchase order placement and delivery. The Buyer works closely with Maintenance, Engineering, Production, Quality, Logistics, Accounting, and other internal departments to ensure requirements are properly defined, orders are placed accurately and on time, and materials and services are available when needed.

MRO and Indirect Purchasing

• Purchase MRO materials, spare parts, tools, consumables, safety supplies, services, and other indirect materials required to support manufacturing and facility operations.
• Verify that purchase orders contain the appropriate material descriptions, specifications, quantities, pricing, delivery requirements, and other necessary purchasing information.
• Obtain quotations and perform price comparisons for routine purchases.
• Negotiate routine pricing, delivery dates, minimum order quantities, freight terms, and other commercial conditions within assigned purchasing authority.

Purchase Order Management and Expediting

• Manage open purchase orders from placement through delivery, including supplier acknowledgements, order changes, backorders, and past-due orders.
• Monitor delivery status and expedite materials or services as necessary to support production and operational priorities.
• Communicate material shortages, supplier delays, significant price changes, and other purchasing issues that could affect operations.
• Coordinate resolution of delivery, invoice, quality, return, replacement, and other order-related issues.

Supplier Coordination

• Maintain effective day-to-day working relationships with suppliers.
• Communicate requirements, delivery priorities, order changes, and operational concerns to suppliers.
• Support the qualification and onboarding of new suppliers.
• Escalate recurring supplier performance, delivery, quality, or commercial issues to Procurement or Supply Chain management.

Inventory and Material Availability

• Monitor usage, lead times, minimum order quantities, and replenishment requirements for assigned materials.
• Assist with physical inventories, cycle counts, and investigation of inventory discrepancies when required.
• Help identify obsolete, excess, or slow-moving MRO inventory and coordinate appropriate disposition with internal stakeholders.
• Support efforts to prevent stockouts of critical operating and maintenance supplies while minimizing unnecessary inventory.

SAP and Purchasing Data

• Maintain accurate purchasing information, including supplier information, pricing, lead times, order quantities, and purchasing data within assigned responsibility.
• Assist with supplier master-data and purchasing-data updates as required.
• Review open-order reports and other purchasing reports and take appropriate follow-up actions.
• Support resolution of invoice discrepancies, including differences involving pricing, quantities, receipts, or other purchasing information.

Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Accounting/Finance, Manufacturing Technology or a related discipline; equivalent relevant purchasing experience may be considered.
• APICS/ASCM CPIM or ISM CPSM certification is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years of purchasing experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience purchasing MRO materials, spare parts, indirect materials, services, or manufacturing supplies preferred.
• Experience working with an ERP system; SAP S/4 HANA (MM Module) experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of purchase requisitions, purchase orders, supplier quotations, order acknowledgements, expediting, and basic purchasing processes.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Please note we are unable to offer any type of employment sponsorship assistance for this opportunity.

At Bruker, the base salary is part of our total compensation. The estimated salary range for this full-time position is between $80,000 and $105,000 and provides an opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base salary for the role will depend on several job-related factors, including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, the geographic location of the successful candidate, skills, competencies, job-related knowledge, and travel requirements for this position. Full-time employees may also be eligible for a performance-related incentive in addition to a full range of benefits, including 401(k) with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, medical and dental plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, employee assistance program and paid time off including vacation, sick time and holidays, and more.

Bruker is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics

Certain positions at Bruker require compliance with export control laws and as a result, all interviewed candidates for all positions will be screened pre-interview to determine their eligibility in light of export control restrictions.