Job Description (General Summary)

Intralox L.L.C., the world leader in conveyor equipment solutions utilizing modular plastic conveyor belts, has a position available for a Supply Chain Procurement Specialist (Buyer) at our Hanover,MD location. This is an onsite position. We are seeking a highly motivated, self-managed, and detail-loving Supply Chain professional to support our engineer-to-order (ETO) equipment business. This position executes Buyer transactions and manages purchasing activities for equipment production in a project-driven, time-sensitive environment.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

What We Are Looking For:

• We are looking for an individual who takes ownership, thrives on solving problems, and is energized by improving the way work gets done. The successful candidate enjoys daily challenges, investigates root causes, drives issues to resolution, and implements sustainable improvements that reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
• You are exceptionally detail-oriented and understand how small transactional oversights can create significant downstream effects.
• You think like an owner, take initiative, and follow commitments through to completion.
• You thrive when multiple high-priority needs arise at once, quickly assessing business impact and keeping critical work moving without losing sight of the details.
• You remain composed and adaptable as priorities shift or information is incomplete.
• You use data to guide decisions, communicate risks early, and bring potential solutions whenever possible.
• You constructively challenge the status quo and look for ways to simplify, standardize, automate, or eliminate repetitive work.
• You view a rapidly evolving environment as an opportunity to learn, grow, raise your performance, and build better ways of working.
• You measure success not only by completing today's work, but also by making tomorrow's work easier, more reliable, and more efficient.

Responsibilities:

• Review project material requirements and on-hand inventory, identify purchasing needs, obtain competitive quotations, and issue purchase orders.
• Monitor open purchase orders and supplier commitments. Conduct supplier status meetings and partner with suppliers and production schedulers to ensure deliveries are timely, which may require reprioritizing delivery dates.
• Partner with Receiving and Accounts Payable departments to resolve discrepancies.
• Maintain exceptional transactional accuracy by validating part numbers, revisions, specifications, quantities, pricing, lead times, delivery dates, and other purchase-order details. Communicate with suppliers to ensure engineering changes are accurately communicated to suppliers.
• Manage multiple time-sensitive requirements simultaneously, continually reassessing priorities based on customer, project, production, and business-cost impact.
• Partner with suppliers to identify supply risks, and communicate potential project impacts to Production, Materials Management, Engineering, Quality, and other stakeholders.
• Take ownership of purchasing and supplier-related issues from identification through resolution. Partner with other departments to investigate root causes, coordinate corrective actions, and implement sustainable improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Updated and maintain accurate procurement data within the ERP system. Use the data to monitor purchasing performance, identify trends and exceptions, prioritize actions, and make decisions related to supplier performance, cost, quality, delivery, and risk.
• Analyze spending patterns, lead times, and supplier performance to identify cost-saving opportunities and areas for operational improvement.
• Partner with Supply Chain Analysts and other cross-functional stakeholders to advance broader supply-chain strategies and initiatives. Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, or eliminate manual and repetitive activities.
• Build scalable processes, document improvements, and share knowledge so that routine work becomes increasingly efficient for the betterment of the business.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, operations, engineering, or related field.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of detailed, time-sensitive work while balancing multiple priorities and deadlines using sound judgment and adaptability when several needs are urgent.
• Demonstrated experience using data to identify issues, support decisions, and make process improvements.
• At least two years of procurement experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred
• Strong ownership, follow-through, organization, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with suppliers and cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience using Oracle or another ERP system is preferred.
• Experience with root-cause analysis, corrective actions, or continuous-improvement methods is preferred.
• Experience reviewing engineering drawings, bills of material, specifications, or revision-controlled documents is preferred.
• Advanced Excel, reporting, data-visualization, or workflow-automation skills are preferred.

Intralox's benefit program is a major part of an employee's total compensation from the company. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including health, dental, vision, and disability insurance, paid time off, 401K, flexible spending account, life and AD&D insurance, long term care, tuition reimbursement, and additional voluntary benefits.

The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. Intralox considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training and key skills. Therefore, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply regardless of their salary expectations.

The position is eligible for one of the following: commissions, discretionary incentives, or production incentives according to the terms of those plans.

Salary Range: $53,700 to $116,000

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