Buyer 2 - ERP/MRP

Salary Range: 63000 to 70000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Role & Responsibilities:

Purchasing & Material Management:

• Execute purchasing responsibilities for assigned commodities, suppliers, materials, or programs in accordance with established sourcing and commodity strategies.
• Maintain appropriate material availability to support manufacturing requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Review MRP requirements and convert system demand into appropriate purchasing actions.
• Manage purchase orders, supplier schedules, acknowledgments, lead times, delivery commitments, and material exceptions.
• Identify and resolve potential shortages before they impact manufacturing operations.
• Work directly with suppliers to improve delivery, lead time, flexibility, cost, and overall supply-chain performance via supplier scorecards.
• Support inventory optimization through appropriate order quantities, safety-stock strategies, lead-time management, and replenishment parameters.

ERP/MRP & Business Intelligence Development and Optimization: Serve as the Purchasing and Supply Chain subject-matter expert for ERP/MRP and Business Intelligence, supporting the development, implementation, optimization, and continuous improvement of an integrated, data-driven planning and decision-support environment. Translate business requirements into scalable system functionality, standardized planning processes, automated analytics, and actionable management information that improves material availability, inventory performance, supplier execution, cost management, and supply-chain visibility.

• Partner cross-functionally with Purchasing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, Quality, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective ERP/MRP workflows, planning logic, system parameters, data structures, controls, and reporting solutions.
• Evaluate current Purchasing and material-planning processes and lead improvements that increase system utilization, automation, data integrity, planning accuracy, and operational efficiency, while reducing reliance on manual transactions and disconnected spreadsheets.
• Support the development, validation, governance, and continuous optimization of critical MRP planning logic and master-data parameters, including supplier lead times, order quantities, minimum order quantities, safety stock, reorder points, supplier assignments, purchasing calendars, material classifications, inventory policies, and other planning attributes.
• Participate in ERP/MRP system design, testing, validation, implementation, enhancement, and continuous improvement, ensuring system functionality accurately supports Purchasing and Supply Chain business requirements across ANA operations.
• Develop and optimize Business Intelligence dashboards, automated reporting, analytical models, and exception-management tools that transform ERP/MRP data into actionable operational and strategic intelligence.
• Establish automated visibility into critical Purchasing and Supply Chain performance indicators, including supplier delivery and quality, purchase price variance, inventory levels and turns, material shortages, past-due purchase orders, supplier lead-time performance, capacity and supply risk, premium freight, forecast accuracy, excess and obsolete inventory, and cost reduction/cost avoidance.
• Develop exception-based management reporting that proactively identifies material, supplier, inventory, cost, and planning risks, enabling Purchasing resources to focus on the highest-priority issues requiring action.
• Support the development of executive-level BI dashboards and management reporting providing timely visibility to Cost, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Supply Risk, enabling fact-based decision-making and organizational accountability.
• Establish standardized ERP/MRP and BI processes, reporting methodologies, and performance definitions across manufacturing locations to create a single, reliable source of truth for Purchasing and Supply Chain performance.
• Drive the evolution from transactional and reactive Purchasing toward a predictive, exception-based, data-driven operating model, leveraging ERP/MRP discipline and Business Intelligence to improve planning accuracy, supplier performance, inventory optimization, and overall Supply Chain effectiveness.
• Develop automated visibility into critical Purchasing and Supply Chain KPIs, including:
• Supplier On-Time Delivery
• Supplier Quality Performance
• Purchase Price Variance
• Inventory Levels
• Inventory Turns
• Material Shortages
• Past-Due Purchase Orders
• Supplier Lead-Time Performance
• Supplier Capacity/Risk
• Premium Freight
• Forecast versus Actual Demand
• Excess and Obsolete Inventory
• Cost Reduction / Cost Avoidance
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Required:
• 5+ years experience in manufacturing Purchasing, Supply Chain, Material Planning, Production Control, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years strong working knowledge of multiple ERP systems and applications.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP/MRP principles and manufacturing material flow.
• Demonstrated understanding of purchasing, inventory management, supplier management, production planning, and replenishment principles.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and root-cause problem-solving capabilities.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and data-analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large or complex datasets and convert information into actionable business decisions.
• Ability to understand the relationship between demand, inventory, lead time, supply, capacity, and manufacturing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across Purchasing, Manufacturing, Operations, Finance, Engineering, Quality, and IT.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

• Bachelors degree in CES, Business and/or other related field of studies.
• Experience supporting an ERP/MRP implementation, migration, transformation, enhancement, or optimization initiative.
• Experience with Power BI or comparable Business Intelligence and visualization platforms.
• Experience developing dashboards, automated reporting, scorecards, or analytical models.
• Working knowledge of ERP reporting tools, relational data structures, data models, or comparable analytical technologies.
• Experience developing or supporting supply-chain KPI reporting.
• Experience with master-data governance and ERP/MRP planning-parameter management.
• Experience within a high-growth, high-volume, multi-site, or complex manufacturing environment.
• Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, or structured Root Cause Problem Solving.

Critical Competencies:

• Systems Thinking — Understands how Purchasing decisions, planning parameters, inventory, suppliers, manufacturing requirements, and ERP/MRP logic interact as one integrated system.
• Analytical Discipline — Uses facts, data, trends, and root-cause analysis to make decisions.
• Purchasing Fundamentals — Understands that systems and analytics enhance—but do not replace—strong Buyer judgment and supplier management.
• Data Ownership — Treats master-data integrity as an operational requirement rather than an administrative activity.
• Exception Management — Focuses organizational resources on the conditions requiring human judgment while enabling systems to manage routine transactions.
• Continuous Improvement — Consistently challenges manual, repetitive, and inefficient processes and seeks a better way.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration — Builds effective working relationships while maintaining clear accountability and ownership.
• Sense of Urgency — Recognizes emerging supply risks and acts before they become manufacturing disruptions.
• Accountability — Takes ownership from identification of an issue through implementation and verification of the solution.

ANA’s Core Values:

• Root Cause Problem Solving
• Be Creative with Solutions
• Build open and honest relationships
• Build a positive team and family spirit
• Be inclusive
• Look for better ways
• Be humble
• Urgency

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive pay
• 401k with company contribution
• Medical, Dental, & Vision
• Life Insurance
• Voluntary Accident Insurance
• Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Appreciation Programs