Buyer

Flex; Coopersville (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex is seeking a Buyer in Walker, MI to direct procurement for production lines, ensuring volume, quality, and cost targets are met. You will maintain supplier relationships, place orders, track shipments, and minimize obsolescence while coordinating with warehouses and freight partners. The role requires 4–5 years in procurement and strong Excel/ERP skills.

The team emphasizes inclusive growth and collaboration as essential to delivering great products and meeting production needs on schedule.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4–5 years of procurement experience.
• Experience using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and ERP software.
• Ability to read, research and interpret business publications, journals and procedures.
• Strong report writing and communication skills.
• Ability to calculate discounts, costs and quantities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain relations with suppliers and place material orders as required.
• Verify purchase orders and adjust them according to production plans.
• Track shipments and manage stock levels to avoid overstock.
• Coordinate with freight forwarders and warehouses for transportation.
• Approve invoices and monitor supplier performance and costs.
• Record procurement data and maintain accurate records.

Skills

Procurement experience

Attention to detail

Reading/comprehension

Reporting ability

Communication skills

Mathematical ability

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

ERP software

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.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Buyer located in Walker, MI. Reporting to the manager the potential candidate would be in charge of directing the manufacturing operations performed in a shift or group of production lines, ensuring they reach volume, quality and cost goals.

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 4-5 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.

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