Bilingual Buyer

Role Summary

The buyer is responsible for the purchase of raw materials, supplies, tools and consumables to maintain the continuity of operations, ensuring quality, competitive cost and time compliance.

This function involves evaluating suppliers, negotiating commercial conditions, managing purchase orders and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products at the best prices, contributing to the development of new suppliers or the improvement of raw materials. Collaborates with internal teams to understand needs and ensure procurement aligns with organizational objectives and compliance with company policies.

Main Activities

Ensure the timely supply of raw materials, supplies, tools and consumables.

Search for the most competitive alternatives for raw materials and inputs that meet specifications and quality requirements.

Inventory control of plant supplies, this includes all raw materials for the different production lines.

Purchases from foreign and local suppliers of production inputs; The purchasing process includes request for quotes, price validation, placement of purchase orders, and shipment tracking.

Validation of the documents necessary for the correct receipt of materials.

Support in the preparation of reports such as MOH and materials in transit.

Participation in continuous improvement projects for inventory control of material availability based on sales projections

Issuance of monthly reports: inventories, backlog and backorder.

Requirements

• Education: Industrial engineering, bachelor's degree in administration, global business or similar
• Experience: +3 years in a similar position.
• MS Office proficiency.
• ERP system
• Purchasing policies and administrative requirements
• Advanced English

Competencies

• Negotiation skills
• Organization / Planning
• Customer orientation
• Integrity
• Interpersonal intelligence
• Excellence

Benefits

Your data and information will be handled confidentially.

Accommodations Statement: To perform this position successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with a disability to adequately perform the duties of the position. Signode is committed to providing equal opportunities to all qualified candidates. If you require any assistance in applying for this vacancy, please contact us at mfernandez@signode.com. The company reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and core tasks are included. Its goal is to provide guidelines on the expectations of the position. It should not be construed as a comprehensive list of all duties, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Managers may assign additional duties and requirements as they deem appropriate.

This document does not represent an employment contract, and the company reserves the right to modify this job description and/or assign tasks to the employee to perform, as the company deems appropriate.

About the Company

With more than $2 billion in revenue, more than 80 manufacturing facilities on 6 continents, and more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Signode is a leading global manufacturer of a broad range of transportation packaging consumables, tools, software, and equipment that optimize end-of-line packaging operations and protect products during transit. Signode integrates this extensive product portfolio under hundreds of recognized brands, offering its clients comprehensive packaging solutions for transportation. We manufacture strapping, stretch packaging and protective packaging. We also develop tools and packaging equipment used for the application of these materials. These industrial packaging products are used to pack, group, unitize, protect and secure goods during storage and transportation. Our company is a pioneer in the industrial packaging industry, with a long history of customer-focused innovations in materials, processes and automation technologies that have transformed the sector.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, we are proud to be the Transportation Packaging Division of Crown Holdings, Inc. We are excited to operate in the market as Signode and share the portfolio of products, services and capabilities that position us as the world's leading end-of-line packaging solutions company.