Senior Buyer

Position Overview

As the Senior Buyer, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of purchasing components from suppliers in order to assure timely delivery of parts to support production needs. In addition, the Senior Buyer is the communication and logistical link between Value Streams, Management, Master Scheduling and Warehouse. Senior Buyer is also accountable for managing supplier accounts with significant spend. In addition, Senior Buyer is expected to compile, interpret and analyze complex data in supporting commodity management team with supplier contracts.

Company Overview

At FUJIFILM Sonosite, we reinvent how healthcare is delivered with point-of-care ultrasound technology. As the leader in bedside ultrasound systems, our innovations save lives—from premature babies in NICUs to trauma patients in emergency rooms.

We’re looking for purpose-driven team members ready to build technology that impacts real-world scenarios, including natural disasters and even war zones. By joining FUJIFILM Sonosite, you’ll be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, out-of-the-box thinking, and a passion for life-saving innovations. Let’s make a difference together.

Our headquarters in Bothell, Washington, blends riverside charm with urban amenities, quality schools, and an ever-evolving downtown—all part of the vibrant Seattle metro area.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

Job Description

Essential Job Functions: 

• Manages complex supplier accounts, requiring advanced knowledge of commodity, supply base, and program.
• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with suppliers; Communicate common supplierproblems with Leadership, Commodity Management and other Buyers
• Own and drive an inventory action plan to maintain proper inventory levels and achieve turns goals of key production components
• Primary owner for Sonosite purchasing and managing orders through to delivery; Assure orders areshipped on a timely basis to support value stream
• Develops assurance of supply where distributors and suppliers need support; Use shortage report to communicate current delivery information from suppliers
• Compile, interpret and analyze complex data in supporting commodity management team with supplier contracts
• Resolve invoice discrepancies on a timely basis
• Develop and maintain effective and efficient processes within the Oracle business s/w environment.
• Manage supplier quality through the Non-Conformance Report (NCR)/Reject Process; Minimizeproduction impact by ensuring discrepant materials are addressed with Supplier Quality and Suppliers
• Source and procure production material using Oracle MRP system.
• Source and procure non-production materials needed for product development.
• Work closely with cross-functional business partners such as Commodity Management, Supplier Quality, Value Stream, Warehouse Department, etc.
• Any other task assigned by management
• Work closely with cross-functional business partners such as Commodity Management, Supplier Quality, Value Stream, Warehouse Department, etc.
• Primary owner for Sonosite purchasing and managing orders through to delivery
• Develops assurance of supply where distributors and suppliers need support
• Compile, interpret and analyze complex data in supporting commodity management team with supplier contracts
• Develop and maintain effective and efficient processes within the Oracle business s/w environment.
• Source and procure production material using Oracle MRP system.
• Source and procure non-production materials needed for product development.
• Responsible and accountable for canying out the requirements of the company's Quality system.

Knowledge/Experience:

• At least 5 years of working experience with purchasing practices, MRP, materials documentation and qualification, and purchasing under a LEAN manufacturing system
• Knowledge of FDA and other regulatory compliance issues.
• Experience in procurement of electro-mechanical assembly related material: PCBs, ASICs, electrical components, connectors, etc. Also, experience with procurement of a wide range of both custom and off-the-shelf devices including custom machined parts and tooling, injection molded plastics, and cable assemblies.
• Experience with MRP systems and the interactions with BOMs and configuration management issues.
• Experience creating and using corporate processes for materials purchasing and handling