Senior Buyer & Materials Planner – Onsite Manufacturing

MAAX Bath Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 68,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Midical

Vision

Dental

LTD/STD

401K with Company Match

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programs

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Mr. Steam in Long Island City, NY seeks a Senior Buyer / Procurement Specialist to manage an assigned portfolio of suppliers and materials in a fully onsite manufacturing environment.

The role covers end-to-end procurement from purchase requests through delivery, inventory, and supplier recovery, with close collaboration across production, quality, engineering, and warehouse teams. You will develop product knowledge, negotiate routine terms, and escalating higher-risk issues when needed, with

Qualifications

• Direct supplier communication and relationship ownership.
• Personal responsibility for RFQs, quotation comparisons, or routine negotiations.
• Experience negotiating or resolving pricing, delivery, lead-time, minimum-order-quantity, expedite, terms, or supplier-recovery matters.
• An understanding of how demand, inventory, lead times, open purchase orders, and supplier commitments influence purchasing decisions.
• Ownership of supplier or material issues from identification through follow-up and closure.
• The ability to act independently on routine matters.
• The judgment to recognize when higher-risk matters require escalation.
• The ability to summarize an issue, complete the necessary analysis, and recommend a course of action.
• Willingness to work fully onsite in Long Island City.
• Willingness to participate in hands-on inventory, RMA, quality, warehouse, and production-support activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage an assigned portfolio of materials and suppliers.
• Create and maintain accurate purchase orders, quantities, pricing, delivery dates, acknowledgements, and supporting documentation.
• Solicit supplier quotations and compare pricing, lead times, terms, and other commercial considerations.
• Negotiate routine pricing, delivery, lead-time, minimum-order-quantity, expedite, and supplier-recovery matters.
• Interpret demand, inventory levels, open purchase orders, supplier commitments, lead times, and production priorities.
• Identify material shortages, late deliveries, changing requirements, and supplier risks before they disrupt production.
• Communicate directly with suppliers regarding order status, commitments, delivery concerns, pricing discrepancies, and issue resolution.
• Coordinate returns, rework, replacement materials, credits, supplier corrective actions, and return material authorizations.
• Participate directly in cycle counts and inventory-discrepancy resolution.
• Work with production, quality, engineering, receiving, and warehouse employees to investigate material and supplier issues.
• Identify possible alternate sources and participate in supplier evaluation and sourcing discussions.
• Document cost savings, cost avoidance, improved terms, alternate-source opportunities, and supplier-performance improvements.
• Escalate higher-risk or nonstandard issues with a clear analysis and recommended course of action.

Skills

Direct supplier communication

RFQ management

Negotiation

Inventory planning

Independent decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

ERP / MRP systems

Job description

Mr. Steam in Long Island City, NY seeks a Senior Buyer / Procurement Specialist to manage an assigned portfolio of suppliers and materials in a fully onsite manufacturing environment.

The role covers end-to-end procurement from purchase requests through delivery, inventory, and supplier recovery, with close collaboration across production, quality, engineering, and warehouse teams. You will develop product knowledge, negotiate routine terms, and escalating higher-risk issues when needed, with