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**Location**:Reynosa Tamaulipas, MX, 88710**Business Unit**:Power & Data Systems**Posting Date**:Feb 14, 2025**Summary of the Position**:- Responsible for planning, purchasing, and expediting critical materials and components for the operation of the organization requiring extensive or specialized knowledge and experience. This position will manage a wide range of commodities as assigned which could include; PCB’s, electromechanical and electronic components used in the manufacturing of PCBA’s and provide guidance to other buyers.**Main Responsabilities**:- Plans, purchases, and expedites material, equipment and services on a broad assignment basis usually involving important and critical items. Responsible for all purchasing/planning data in ERP system.- Provide guidance and training to buyers consistent with procurement policies set by the Materials Manager.- Performs an active role in the supplier selection and assessment process. Seeks new sources of supply, perform periodic performance evaluations; generates on-time delivery reports.- Assess and evaluate suppliers and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities.- Ensure continuous supply of required goods and materials and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations.- Research and evaluate areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible.- Drives continuous improvement with suppliers and within Purchasing practices and tool set.- Maintain KPI metrics on performance, and delivery.- Solicit competitive quotations from qualified suppliers and prepare total cost analysis to determine best overall value including purchase price, freight terms, payments terms, quality of service and product specifications.- Negotiate contracts, improved prices, and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.- Analyzes purchase price variances and assists in the development of standard product costs.- Monitor savings against individual and departmental cost savings objectives.- Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues.- Deliver briefs, updates, and reports as and when required.- Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.- Must have knowledge of legal practices and compliance systems including ISO- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures.**Experience/Skills**:- 3+ years' experience purchasing electronics, electronics components, wiring harnesses, and PCB/PCBA- Degree in Business Administration, a related field, or equivalent experience- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience- Experience working with MRP.- Must have established negotiation, supplier relation and sourcing skills along with strong organizational skills.- Must have leadership traits and communication skills to allow for effective training and guidance to buyers.- Must have experience with handling long term agreements, KanBan and Just-In-Time (JIT) purchasing.- Applies continuous improvement techniques and methods to internal processes and systems.- Complies with all internal policies and procedures.- Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to work successfully within teams and able to lead.- Embraces personal challenge.- Confident, rounded thinking.- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working with others.- Proactively contributes to the team and able to lead others.- Resilient, self-motivated, and able to work well under pressure.AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.0 billion.