Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company whose employees are passionate about providing life-saving solutions to our customers through a collaborative and high-impact work environment.  Our environment reflects a culture of growth, leadership, and innovation in which our employees can directly impact the world by doing work that truly matters.

We are looking for a Buyer II reporting to Costa Rica

SUMMARY:

Responsible for procuring raw materials, OEM components, capital equipment, tooling, supplies and services, to ensure customer service level, while achieving the targeted inventory turn objective.

They are also responsible to strike an optimal balance between cost, quality, delivery and service in a fast-paced environment. Responsible to thoroughly understand the commodities they support, to give the organization a competitive advantage and evaluate suppliers’ capabilities, negotiate and administer contracts as necessary.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES include the following:

Other duties may be assigned.

Materials Administration:

• Generates adjusts and expedites purchase orders based on the MRP (material requirements planning) along with pertinent information being used to run the business that maybe more current, i.e. schedule adherence, SOP, WI, policies;

• Generates buy action based on authorized spending amount; Coordinates with Planners to maintain optimal service levels and determine the proper priorities for material support;

• Tracks and monitors purchase orders, keeping informed of any problems/delays and communicates any impacts/constraints to the Value stream team, manufacturing manager/supervisor or other discipline impacted by the change;

• Supports material needs for the product development process; Generates on-going cost savings through the Value improvement Process;

• Participates on PDP (Product Development Process) teams for sourcing material; Manages complex commodities and/or responsibilities;

• Displays leadership by promoting change ideas and driving implementation.

Supplier Management:

• Monitors and communicates quality and delivery performance to the supplier;

• Obtains bids to promote a competitive environment (locates, interviews, analyzes and evaluates vendor capabilities to select suppliers, partners with these suppliers to maximize company funds.);

• Responsible to resolve supplier related problems (works closely with suppliers to assure a positive and professional relationship, always establishing and maintaining open lines of communication.);

• Maintains awareness of market trends pertaining to their responsibility.Total Quality: Adheres to FDA, BSI requirements; Reviews and approves raw material document change orders; Maintains accurate purchasing master data, AVL, etc.;

• Interfaces with Engineering, Planning, and Quality to ensure timely throughput and proper prioritization of materials received.

• Inventory Management: Manages complex, high impact or high financial risk commodities and/or responsibilities;

• Formulates purchasing decisions to achieve internal customer service, targeted inventory turns and least total cost material procurement;

Identifies expired, excess and obsolete materials and dispositions the material appropriately.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor degree, with 2-4 years of related experience.

• College degree required.

• Proficient personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet and graphics.

• Advanced English.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Ability to work in a self-managed work team environment.

• Ability to work differing work schedules. Intermediate to advance level written and oral English communication skills required.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.

• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

COMMENTS:

This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all‑inclusive of the work to be performed. The incumbent will typically perform other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities.

Confluent Medical Technologies is dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

We regret that we are unable to sponsor employment visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.

Confluent Medical Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.