Experience

GRAMAG Truck Interior Systems

• United States
• Automotive
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Buyer

  • May 2019 - Present

  Supplier contact in regards to new product or changes to existing product.Negotiate LTA agreements, Terms and Conditions and Pricing Create, Update and maintain Purchase Orders (blanket and spot buy)Send out Request for Quotes to suppliers and follow-up to completionPurchase all MRO supplies per departments and plantwideResearch for products needed for production and general plant purposeWork with existing and potential suppliers for cost reductionsWork with Engineering, Materials, Quality and other personnel in coordinating product changesOverseas sourcingAnnual Supplier Spend tracking for each component detailing pending impacts or reductions per quarter in order to project yearly supplier expenditures.

• Purchasing Assistant

  • Jul 2009 - May 2019

  Responsibilities of the purchasing assistant was to be the right hand person to the Purchasing Manager. Job duties included, but limited to, creating purchase contracts, negotiating terms when needed, maintaining tooling documents, NDA agreements, sending out quote packages including tracking and managing Engineering Changes.

• Production Scheduler

  • Aug 2006 - Jul 2009

  Core responsibilities as the production scheduler were to ensure jobs were loaded daily into the system, line sequencing, scheduling daily production, working with the customers service departments, contract pricing, shipping documents, and working with materials to ensure raw materials were available for product completion.