Purchaser

**Disclaimer**:
System Equine's employees are a close-knit group of individuals who strive to create the highest quality products and offer top notch customer experiences. We are always looking for energetic, passionate, and dedicated individuals to join our team. Our employment opportunities are just as diverse as the products we carry.

**Job Responsibilities & Requirements**:

- Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate daily purchasing activities
- Evaluate cost and quality of goods or services; develop and execute cost reduction and cost avoidance plans
- Create and generate KPI’s for supply base
- Identify vendors of materials, equipment, or supplies
- Negotiate, or oversee the negotiation, of purchase contracts
- Resolve delivery and pricing discrepancies with suppliers
- Resolve payment issues in collaboration with financial team
- Resolve delivery discrepancies with suppliers
- Review and analyze system generated planned orders and issue purchase orders accordingly
- Ensure appropriate component parts are delivered to manufacturing facility including ordering, expediting as requested, and close liaison with manufacturing, sales, logistics, and warehouse personnel where applicable
- Report on material related issues at the daily production meeting and escalate when appropriat
- Create sourcing strategies to ensure stability of supply
- Develops supplier base to support business needs via dual sourcing or strategic partnerships, as needed
- Experience in Spire an asset

**Knowledge & Skills Required**:

- Minimum of 2-5 years’ experience in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management - experience with overseas buying and inventory control an asset
- 2-5 years purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
- Excellent communication skills; listening, comprehension, and feedback
- A passion for doing high quality work
- The ability to think critically, innovate, and solve challenging technical problems
- High attention to detail
- Effective time management and logical decision-making ability
- High level of planning, organizational & implementation skills
- Solid analytical and technical problem-solving skills