Job Description

Buyer

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You will be working as Buyer, reporting to Manager - Operations for Motion business, Traction division based in Vadodara, India. You will be responsible for end-to-end planning of inventory including sales in excess of invoicing from purchase requisition to customer invoice. Supporting internal customer service inquiries. Setting inventory parameters, inventory targets, and ensuring adequate replenishment of inventory through purchase orders.

Your responsibilities

• Defining inventory policies according to this segmentation and segmenting the portfolio of materials through an ABC/XYZ analysis, product lifecycle management and commercial policy
• Calculating and maintaining in the planning systems and the ERPs the inventory parameters: safety stock, reorder point, lot size, lead-time, and replenishment strategies
• Collaborating with Buyers for obtaining the best possible supplier performance in terms of supplier on-time delivery, MOQ, quality, lead-time, and flexibility
• Working with Operations Buyers and GBS to align planning of material with call offs and ensuring that purchase requisitions are converted into purchase orders
• Managing MRP (Materials Resource Planning) exception messages on daily basis
• Supporting cycle counting and/or year-end inventory counting and conducting financial risk assessments decisions relating to inventory, conducts root case analysis when necessary
• Analyzing excess and obsolete/aging inventory and taking appropriate action for optimizing inventory performance, in collaboration with sales, marketing, manufacturing and procurement and logistics

Your background

• Diploma /B. E in Electrical/ Mechanical engineering
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in material planning and procurement
• Good knowledge in supply chain, materials, purchasing and inventory management
• Highly motivated team-player with a collaborative, learning and solutions-oriented approach, and strong communication skills

More about us

ABB Traction is a leader in traction technologies, driving innovation in rail and e-mobility. Our propulsion, auxiliary and energy storage solutions contribute to making transportation more sustainable, while saving energy every day. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. It has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions. For current open positions you can visit our career website https://global.abb/group/en/careers and apply. Please refer to detailed recruitment fraud caution notice using the link https://global.abb/group/en/careers/how-to-apply/fraud-warning Work model: on site #LI-onsite