Sr. Buyer

Georgia Pacific; Rincon (GA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Senior Buyer for our Consumer Products Operations at the Savannah River Mill in Rincon, GA. You will work under the Purchasing Manager to manage high-volume, time-critical purchasing activities and gain exposure to buildings/grounds upkeep and capital projects.

Join Georgia-Pacific’s Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team to help align supplier terms, optimize spend, and lead contract negotiations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in purchasing or related field.
• Microsoft Office Suite experience (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Negotiating contracts at local and regional levels.

Responsibilities

• Ensures adherence to safety, environmental and purchasing policies.
• Uses purchasing system to process purchase orders from requisitions.
• Ensures contracts reflect terms, including payment, freight and incoterms.
• Issues RFQs, analyzes quotes, negotiates price/terms, selects suppliers on total cost of ownership.
• Utilizes strategic supply agreements to maximize value.
• Collaborates with internal requestors to understand requirements.
• Demonstrates customer focus and urgency.
• Communicates status updates to customers and suppliers.
• Analyzes accounts payable exceptions and resolves root causes.
• Initiates changes to improve purchasing processes.
• Manages time to prioritize tasks; administers contractor management tools including Ariba.

Tools

Ariba

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is now hiring for a Sr. Buyer for our Consumer Products Operations located at our Savannah River Mill in Rincon, GA! Working under the general supervision of the Purchasing Manager, the Sr. Buyer manages purchasing activities in a high volume, time-critical environment. The buyer will gain experience with buildings and grounds upkeep, and capital projects.

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is now hiring for a Sr. Buyer for our Consumer Products Operations located at our Savannah River Mill in Rincon, GA! Working under the general supervision of the Purchasing Manager, the Sr. Buyer manages purchasing activities in a high volume, time-critical environment. The buyer will gain experience with buildings and grounds upkeep, and capital projects.

This is a mill onsite position at the Georgia‑Pacific Rincon, GA facility.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific’s Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support our facilities. The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.

What You Will Do

• Ensures adherence to all safety, environmental and purchasing policies, guidelines and procedures
• Utilizes company’s purchasing system to process purchase orders from requisitions
• Ensures the contractual document accurately reflects the terms and conditions of purchase, including payment terms, freight terms, incoterms, and other key commercial terms
• Issues requests for quotations, analyzes and evaluates quotes, negotiates price and terms, and exercises independent judgment to select suppliers based on lowest total cost of ownership
• Knowledgeable of Company’s strategic supply agreements and utilizes these to maximize value
• Collaborates with internal requestors to understand requirements (e.g., specifications, scopes of work, performance and timing requirements)
• Demonstrates high level of customer focus and sense of urgency
• Uses strong verbal and written communication skills to solve problems and provide status updates to customers and suppliers (e.g., commitment dates)
• Analyzes root causes of accounts payable exceptions and takes steps to resolve and prevent
• Initiate changes to improve the effectiveness of the purchasing process
• Manages own time to accomplish goals and prioritize a variety of tasks
• Responsible for administration of contractor management tools, including Ariba

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Previous experience in purchasing or similar field (e.g. storeroom, inside sales, accounting, supply chain analyst)
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Word (document creation), Excel (spreadsheets), and outlook (email and calendar)
• Experience negotiating contracts at local and regional levels

What Will Put You Ahead

• Knowledge of purchasing process and procedures and key commercial terms such as freight payables, incoterms and delivery terms
• Experience working in a manufacturing or maintenance environment
• Advanced Excel knowledge to include pivot tables and data analysis
• Experience with invoice reconciliation and discrepancies

Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia‑Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 300,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.

Our benefits plan includes:

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).