At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered, and recognized.

What You Can Expect

The Senior Buyer - Manufacturing Sourcing is responsible for indirect goods and services supporting manufacturing facilities. It is the primary interface managing the Tool Crib Integrator (supplier) on the Warsaw West Campus, supporting and leading cost reduction projects. It includes a wide variety of activities, including leading the purchase order process for the West Campus, training on Buying systems, KPI improvement projects, resolves issues with invoice and at Receiving, and other special projects. This role collaborates with Global Business Services, Operations, Finance, Receiving, Receiving Inspection, Supplier Quality Engineering, Supply Chain, IT, and other partners such as Legal, HR, Privacy, etc.

How You'll Create Impact

• Work with Tool Crib Integrator for Warsaw West Campus on all operational issues: min/max adjustments, supply constraints and stock-outs, invoice discrepancies, issue purchase orders for quality impacting goods that need to be inspected, pipeline report, etc.

• Project Management for special projects that need to resolve problems that arise, such as cleaning up data in systems, review monthly E and O reports, issue resolution with suppliers, lead process for formal communication with suppliers.

• Helps business partners create and/or approve requisitions regarding indirect purchase requirements, quantity, specifications, quality, and delivery in Ariba and JDE systems.

• Timely issuance of Purchase Orders (PO) that allow sufficient lead time to prevent business delays across multiple complex scenarios to meet concurrent business goals.

• Working knowledge of Sourcing systems, policies, and processes so the candidate can lead and train others on SAP Ariba and JDE.

• Prepares bid requests for indirect goods and services, analyzing multiple bid responses, negotiating price and terms to reduce costs; organizes and leads input to pre-production meetings; assures set-ups in business systems for assigned suppliers to capture cost savings data.

• Day-to-day supplier communications and documentation issues with suppliers: Purchase Orders (PO), receiving with wrong/missing paperwork, etc. Communicates supplier-related issues: stock outs, delivery issues, quality, specification, quantity, etc. that could impact site operations/services of assigned suppliers.

• Approves Supplier invoices on an exception basis when not in agreement with the initial purchase order.

• Resolves discrepant invoices which are not in complete agreement with purchase order’s line items and investigates to define root cause of discrepancies to drive continued improvement of the process.

• Works with Category Managers to establish standard costs on an annual basis with assigned suppliers to help set next year’s production budget.

• Will review PPV reports to help explain variance.

• Resolves issues at Receiving- works with receiving resolving various issues.

• When new sourcing systems are launched or upgraded, the Sourcing Sr. Buyer may be involved with the testing of the new/upgraded system.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and might not necessarily comprise all of the essential functions for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Learns from experience, self-motivated and knows when to seek assistance from Sourcing management.

• Experienced in MS Office (Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint).

• Effective analytical skills are required.

• Critical thinking, strong negotiation, and communication skills (written & verbal)

• Working knowledge of JDE and/or SAP Ariba is a nice to have.

Your Background

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a technical, Finance, Accounting, or other business discipline

• A minimum of 5 years of purchasing/sourcing/supply chain experience is required; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.

Travel Expectations

• Up to 5%

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability