Buyer/Procurement & Material Planning

Job Posting Start Date 12-20-2024 Job Posting End Date 03-17-2025

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Job Summary

Farm, a Flex company, has over 49 years of experience providing award-winning development services for medical, life sciences, and consumer healthcare companies. Our talented researchers, designers, and engineers work in a highly collaborative environment on innovative products designed to improve people's lives. At Farm, you'll learn from bright, like-minded individuals excited to tackle the world's healthcare technology challenges.

Located in Southern New Hampshire, our employees have the best of both city and country living with a convenient drive to Boston, the ocean, and the mountains. We attract talent from all over the world and offer competitive salaries and benefits.

Farm is seeking a Buyer role to join our talented and dynamic product development team and play a critical role in creating the next generation of advanced medical technologies. The Buyer role will Coordinates activities involved with procuring direct materials, components and equipment.

Why Farm?

We have a culture of dedicated, inspirational and supportive employees who care deeply about helping improve or save people’s lives with the innovative products and experiences we create.  If you want to work on a vast range of challenging programs, with people who inspire each other and the opportunity to expand your career, Farm is the place for you.

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Using different forms of caring- e-auction, sealed, open care.
• Procurement of non-standard materials on aQuire basis.
• Ongoing and close participation with cross-functional teams, the global IP team and the Flex GBS team.
• Processing the requests received in the aQuire system within 48 hours, sending out the request for proposal.
• Compare the offers and select the best one - Cost and Quality.
• Interpreting contracts, dealing with the legal department representative and cross-functional areas, arranging signatures and ensuring mailing.
• Managing the recruitment of suppliers.
• Tracking goods from procurement to receipt.
• Overall management of global projects, knowledge of KPI's and drive to meet them.
• Agile participation in English language conference calls, meetings, representing the IP team
• Constant liaison with suppliers and peers.
• Knowledge of and compliance with the procurement processes defined in the integrated management system.
• Sending out samples, organizing transport with the help of transport managers where necessary.
• Requesting and documenting safety data sheets.
• Continuous monitoring, maintenance and updating of minimum stocks (as part of the job).
• Handling and processing of Titan and AP.
• Preparation and recording of reports.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Typically requires a minimum of 2 to 4 years of procurement experience.
• Use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills, Comprehensive vision, Strategic thinking, Drive for continuous improvement, Project level thinking, Positive attitude, Proactive, contributing attitude, A sense of control, good communication skills, Precision, Good team work, Business mindset, Defined personality, Integrity, English language skills.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

•            Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision

•            Life Insurance

•            Matching 401K

•            PTO

•            Tuition Reimbursement

•            Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection