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Della InfotechGilroy, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 9 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Buyer role at Della Infotech offers significant opportunities to hone your negotiation and strategic sourcing skills while directly impacting business requirements and supplier relationships. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive mid-senior level professional eager to manage procurement initiatives and contribute to a dynamic team. Apply now to build your career in procurement with this exciting on-site opportunity.

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Title: Buyer
Location : Gilroy, CA(onsite)
Duration : 1 year
 
JOB DESCRIPTION
Primary Function of Position:
Manages procurement of direct materials to support business
requirements: including purchase order management, negotiating costs, Purchase order management, and inventory management. Assists with key procurement initiatives as directed by management.
 
Roles & Responsibilities:
Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery commitments to designated suppliers as necessary to support production and/or sales requirements within the business.
 
Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity groups and/or Supplier relationships.
 
Supports alignment of production supplier requirements and sourcing strategies with those of product development (NPI) for designated suppliers/commodities to ensure uninterrupted material availability, alignment of risk, and cost goals with vision for the business.
 
Owns performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, providing information to strategic purchasing for supplier business reviews.
 
Utilizes lean sourcing principles (Kanban, consignment, and other similar material pull methods) to achieve 100% material availability and optimize on-hand inventory.
 
Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier on-time delivery, quality, inventory turns, problem shelf, expedited inbound freight, vendor scrap, E&O reduction).
 
Leverages problem solving skills to propose solutions to identified supply chain issues.
 
Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
 
Coordinate with strategic purchasing price changes due to cost reduction initiatives, volume pricing or requested by supplier.
 
Supports assigned commodity team by participating in identified risk mitigation and cost reduction opportunities and supporting other commodity projects as assigned.
 
Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
BS degree or equivalent
3+ years of purchasing experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
Computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile.
Working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling, and forecasting.
Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
Ability to consistently achieve stretch goals and objectives.
Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
English 90%
Availability to travel to both domestic and international suppliers.
 

Skills

Agile
ERP
Capacity Planning
Continuous Improvement
Forecasting
Inventory Management
Kanban
Performance Management
Procurement
SAP
Scheduling
Sourcing

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