Nordson Corporation · 20 hours ago
Senior Specialist, Purchasing/Procurement
Duluth, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expNordson Corporation is a global leader in Product Assembly, committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Senior Specialist in Purchasing/Procurement will be responsible for managing the quality, cost, and delivery of components while developing commodity strategies and supplier management.
IndustrialManufacturingPackaging ServicesTest and Measurement
Responsibilities
This role will provide optimal quality, cost, delivery of components/sub assemblies and their impact on finished products. Develop and implement commodity strategies to support business requirement. Accountable for material cost, long-term assurance of supply, supplier performance and support of Nordson supplier selection requirements as well as purchasing related information and data management
Daily purchasing activities, master data maintenance, price info maintenance, PO release and PO delivery follow up
Supplier management, manage supplier delivery, quality performance and cost in accordance with business objectives
Achieve sourcing project for new product development, transfer product, localization, resourcing etc
Optimize supply base for business requirement
Understand the business requirement in term of quality, cost, delivery and technology and develop supplier selection/development criteria
Review engineering drawing, specification, BOM, raw material market trend, manufacture process to generate and develop cost breakdown templates to reflect cost driven
Identify the suitable supplier for certain projects based on business requirement and mass production performance within current supplier base or any other potential supplier if current suppliers can't fulfill the requirement
Be able to develop the long list of potential suppliers and narrow down to the short list according to the criteria
Lead supplier selection process through pre-visit, price benchmarking, supplier audit to ensure selected vendor meets business requirement
Develop, maintain and monitor assigned commodity strategies
Responsible in managing the negotiation process for the assigned commodities and deliver the total cost of ownership
Communicate with Key stakeholders regularly to achieve business goals
Any other reasonable duties required by manager from time to time
Qualification
Required
Bachelor degree or above, major in mechanics or electrical is preferred
A minimum of 5 years of purchasing, sourcing, supply chain or operation experience is required
Preferred
Microsoft office including excel data analysis, word, presentation etc
Ability of drawing & specification reading; cost analysis; negotiation; project management
Have multi-commodity sourcing capability, especially for sheet metal, machining, casting, mechanical etc
Small volume and high mix products experience
Familiar with Sourcing process including - supplier development, localization, cost down, supplier phase out, and purchase order and delivery management
Strong communication skill with internal and external teams
Teamwork spirit, responsible, quick learner and under pressure skills
Company
Nordson Corporation
At Nordson, we believe that anything is possible.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.45B2024-09-04Post Ipo Debt· $600M
2023-09-08Post Ipo Debt· $850M
1979-12-21IPO
Leadership Team
Sundaram Nagarajan
President and CEO
Sarah Siddiqui
EVP, CHRO Nordson Corporation
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