Buyer chez Winnebago Industries, Inc.

A Little About Us: Operating since 1968, Newmar Corporation has been helping customers explore the outdoor lifestyle, enabling extraordinary mobile experiences as they travel, live, work, and play. Newmar has been synonymous in the RV industry with luxury, quality, and innovative motor coaches. In every part of our company, we relentlessly pursue continuous improvement and enhanced productivity, driving out waste, and creating meaningful strategic differentiation. Newmar is part of Winnebago Industries, Inc. a leading U.S. manufacturer of outdoor lifestyle experiences under the Winnebago, Newmar, Grand Design, Chris-Craft, and Barletta brands.

Primary Objective of Position: Responsible for timely procurement of materials from known sources of supply to support requirements to sustain planned production schedules.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Monitor consumption levels of materials and supplies within company-defined inventory levels and to meet on-time delivery requirements for daily production needs.

• Determines the materials needed and methods to use to procure repetitive and cycle count commodities.
• Create and maintain bills-of-material for assigned commodities.
• Purchases materials and supplies and places purchase orders with approved suppliers.
• Investigates and identifies problems, including finding alternative sources, resulting from quality and specification issues so that a corrective action plan can be determined.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure on-time delivery of needed commodities including expediting purchases when needed to meet planned production schedules.
• Generate and/or reviews reports as necessary to ensure timely procurement of materials.
• Assist the Supply Chain team as requested. 

Key Attributes 

• Strong organizational skills, a good understanding of sourcing and ability to maintain supplier relationships.
• Ability to use and interpret data to determine purchasing needs and perform inventory management tasks.
• Skilled at presenting information clearly and accurately using verbal and written communication methods.
• Capable of entering data with a high level of accuracy.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a demanding environment.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering requirements including prints, schematics, work instructions, or other technical formats. 

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred or four years of relevant experience.
• Experience with processes and systems for purchasing, materials, inventory, and stockroom warehouse in an assembly line environment.
• Experience with Teamcenter and Infor XA databases. 
• Proficient in the use of MS Office products and ERP systems.
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering requirements including prints, schematics, work instructions, or other technical formats.