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Title: Buyer I

Full Time

Location: Pleasant Prairie, WI

Our Company

Nexus Pharmaceuticals, a US-based healthcare company, specializes in innovative processes to make difficult-to-manufacture specialty and generic drugs that are easier to use, less labor intensive, and more streamlined in practice. Nexus ensures that its high-quality FDA-approved drugs fulfill a critical unmet medical need and delivers dependable life-saving treatment options when and where they’re needed most.

Summary

The Buyer I will be responsible for creating and maintaining purchase orders based on purchase requisitions provided by various departments, purchasing materials, supplies and equipment for the manufacturing, laboratory, and corporate areas of the business. Duties include working with various departments to procure goods and services, supplier negotiation, master data maintenance and ensure inventory of items is available to meet the demands of the production schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Receiving departmental purchase requisitions and processing accordingly
• Create and release purchase orders into the site ERP system (QAD)
• Work with Operations, R&D and other departments as needed to create and update files for inventory tracking and build planning
• Administer and maintain records of all purchase orders, resolve all issues and correct invoices if required. Work with domestic and international API suppliers to make sure that all API’s are ordered, shipped, and delivered
• Develop and/or support an effective and accurate system for monitoring purchase orders
• Create, update and maintain master purchasing data in ERP system
• Coordinate with RA and QA to create new products/revisions with corresponding specifications
• Work closely with Manufacturing and Operations team to order all needed primary and secondary packaging components and maintain inventory on a regular basis
• Effectively communicate with the management team to ensure all orders include accurate pricing and delivery dates
• Deliver routine purchase order reports to management staff at various levels that indicate the status of all order lines placed
• Collaborate with Warehouse team to ensure timely purchase order receipts
• Work with finance and management to ensure timely invoice and purchase order receipt reconciliation
• Partner with Logistics and management team to ensure that all deliveries satisfy the assigned orders and report any back ordered or missing products/items
• Request quotes from suppliers, coordinating shipments and deliveries as needed
• Work with Accounts Payable to ensure timely payment of invoices
• Compile, record and track vendor information, supplier performance metrics, purchasing activities
• Create, release, and maintain reports, records and master files required for production planning and inventory cost control
• Identify cost savings opportunities when the needs of the business change
• Support supplier relationships
• Assist and coordinate supplier audits as needed
• Perform special projects as assigned

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong interpersonal skills to work with team members across the company, clients and suppliers and build lasting relationships/partnerships
• The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Position may require employee to work closely with shift team to achieve purchasing goals in a 24/7 cGMP Production Environment
• Attention to detail to ensure all purchase orders are accurate
• Math skills to make sure all calculations are correct and avoid any unforeseen losses for the company
• Adapt quickly to new processes and applications
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-transactional volume environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Education and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a buyer in a manufacturing environment, pharmaceutical or food and beverage experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree required
• Experience in operating in an ERP and MRP system, preferably QAD
• Experience negotiating with suppliers to put the company in the best position as it relates to price, quality, and schedule

Travel Requirements:

• 0 - 5% travel required

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk, working on a computer, and talking on the
• phone
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times
• Must be able to navigate various departments of the organization’s physical
• premises

DISCLAIMER: The list under Role Responsibilities is not exhaustive, but are merely the most accurate lists for the current job. Management reserves the right to revise the job description and to require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change.

EEOC Statement: Nexus is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law, rule, or regulation. Nexus participates in E-Verify.