Overview
Buyer, Business Jobs in Oakville, Canada at Vital Bio
Title: Buyer, Business
Company: Vital Bio
Location: Oakville, Canada
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Description
About You:
You are a detail-oriented, proactive procurement specialist who enables innovation through a reliable and efficient supply base. You thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, enjoy owning purchasing decisions, and are motivated by supporting the development and manufacturing of cutting-edge diagnostics. Your expertise in sourcing hardware components, lab supplies, and chemicals—combined with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills—makes you a key partner to engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams.
What You’ll Do:
- Own end-to-end procurement for assigned categories (e.g., lab consumables, test materials, prototypes, indirect services, and capital equipment), from requisition to PO and receipt.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure all ad-hoc procurement needs for R&D and operations are executed on time, within budget, and in line with quality and compliance expectations.
- Manage day-to-day supplier relationships, coordinating delivery schedules, resolving issues, and driving on-time, in-full performance.
- Update and maintain accurate master data in MISys (items, BOMs, suppliers, jobs, locations) to reflect current designs, routing, and purchasing requirements.
- Support receiving and inventory management activities in the warehouse, including troubleshooting any purchasing or inventory-related discrepancies.
Sourcing and Procurement
- Execute strategic and tactical procurement for indirect and direct categories, including professional services, production and lab supplies, test materials, prototypes, machinery, and transportation services.
- Solicit, evaluate, and analyze supplier quotations; lead price, lead time, and commercial term negotiations to achieve total cost and value targets.
- Advise internal customers on procurement strategies and constraints, providing guidance at all stages of the procurement cycle from requisition through PO close.
- Partner closely with R&D, engineering, manufacturing operations, facilities, and maintenance to translate technical and project requirements into clear purchasing specifications.
- Monitor and report on cost performance against budget for assigned categories, highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Identify areas for improvement to continuously drive reductions in standard costs and meet Purchase Price Variance (PPV) targets annually.
- Provide regular forecasts and purchase orders for production materials to ensure material availability to support the production schedule.
Supplier Management
- Work with supply chain leadership to build and maintain a robust portfolio of qualified suppliers across key categories.
- Maintain strong, collaborative relationships with suppliers to ensure high quality, reliable lead times, and competitive pricing.
- Coordinate with suppliers and internal teams to assess the impact of supplier process or material changes and generate the appropriate internal change order paperwork to implement.
- Maintain supplier records and document communication in the CRM.
- Conduct supplier performance reviews, track KPIs (on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness), and drive corrective actions when performance gaps arise.
Master Data, Compliance, and Quality
- Ensure accurate data input into project management, ERP, and supply chain tools, including correct coding, lead times, and purchasing parameters.
- Monitor and update ERP/MRP master data so it consistently reflects Vital’s manufacturing processes, approved suppliers, and current BOM structures.
- Input and maintain new part numbers and BOMs in the ERP/MRP system following engineering change orders or new product introductions.
- Ensure supply-chain-related documentation is stored, organized, and retained in an audit-ready manner.
- Track and archive supplier change notifications and initiate internal change control workflows as needed to maintain GMP and quality system compliance.
- Partner with QA/QC to manage supplier changes, ensuring they are properly risk-assessed, documented, and implemented across the supply chain.
- Support backflushing, inventory reconciliation, and other system-driven processes to keep inventory accurate.
Process Improvement