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Buyer/Purchasing Assistant

Grand Island, NY 14072

Posted: 03/18/2024 Industry: Buyer Inventory Planner Job Number: 100962 Pay Rate: $27

Job Description

Selective Staffing Solutions has partnered with a global healthcare company that specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies. Their products and services are used to help care for critically and chronically ill patients.
Job Summary: Responsible for reviewing production requirements, supporting production schedules, and maintaining customer service requirements for purchased material and services. Responsible for planning, procurement, and maintaining a satisfactory level of material and/or component inventory while maintaining the accuracy of inventory transactions.
Responsibilities: 
  • Responsible for reviewing production requirements, supporting production schedules, and maintaining customer service requirements for purchased material and services. Responsible for planning, procurement, and maintaining a satisfactory level of material and/or component inventory while maintaining the accuracy of inventory transactions. 
  • Coordinates activities involved with procuring purchased material. Conducts purchasing activities in compliance with company policy and stated objectives.
  • Confers with suppliers to obtain information such as price, availability and delivery schedules of purchases materials. Be able to effectively interact with all levels of supplier management and customers. 
  • Analyze the Material Requirements Plan (MRP) generation report to determine ordering, expediting and de-expediting of parts as necessary to support Master Production Schedule (MPS). 
  • Prepares requisitions and purchase orders for purchase material. Interfaces with suppliers on initiation and follow up. Processes change orders and revisions. ·Prioritizes purchases material for Quality Assurance approval to support MPS. 
  • Determines and assigns raw material parts for production using the First In- First Out (FIFO) method. Ensures all raw material parts have accurate inventory balances and transactions in SAP to correspond with the master batch record. 
  • Minimizes the amount of on-hand inventory through careful planning and execution of the MPS. Reviews Obsolete and Excessive Inventory and actively pursues the elimination of obsolete inventory. 
  • Coordinates the implementation of new parts to minimize obsolete inventory and comply with all GMP requirements 
  • Inventory control: responsible for raw material and component inventory dollars as compared to budget and supporting the MPS to avoid backorder of products through planning and procurement practices.

Hours: 9am-5: 30pm Monday-Friday

Job Requirements


  • Associates degree required, and Bachelors preferred. 
  • Minimum 1 year of experience
  • Must have knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning software experience. SAP experience preferred. 
  • Must have knowledge of purchasing, production planning, and inventory control.
  • Prefer a background in the pharmaceutical industry, or experience in a regulated environment. 
  • Demonstrate effective analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management, suppliers, and customers
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