Senior Buyer at Legrand

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Buyer to join the Data Power & Control Division, Cabinets & Containment Team in our Anaheim, CA location on a hybrid basis. The Senior Buyer is responsible for purchasing inventory materials and services. This role supports business objectives by helping ensure quality, cost-effective sourcing, timely delivery, and continuity of supply.

Responsibilities

Main Job Duties

• Develop and maintain productive supplier relationships and monitor supplier capacity for assigned commodities to support continuity of supply.
• Conduct regular meetings with key suppliers to address open issues and visit supplier locations as needed to support business objectives.
• Perform supplier assessments for new suppliers and maintain supplier scorecards to support performance reviews and corrective actions.
• Analyze data from planning, engineering, manufacturing, and product management to support manufacturing requirements.
• Review ERP system messages and process purchase orders in accordance with company standards.
• Coordinate deliveries based on supplier lead times and manufacturing requirements.
• Review changes in demand and adjust schedules as needed; communicate significant supply delays to appropriate stakeholders.
• Process approved price changes in accordance with company policy.
• Lead sourcing-related projects, including outsourcing, insourcing, new supplier selection, and alternate sourcing initiatives.
• Coordinate returns and issue resolution for non-conforming materials.
• Partner with accounting to resolve invoice discrepancies.
• Participate in physical inventory and cycle count activities as needed.
• Maintain purchasing controls, risk-mitigation activities, order policies, and workplace organization practices.
• Maintain purchasing and manufacturing data within ERP systems and support implementation of planning system improvements as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Experience

Required:

• Demonstrated purchasing experience supporting manufacturing or supply chain operations (typically 4 plus years of equivalent experience).
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment and using ERP systems, SAP preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 10 percent annually on a national basis

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Required: Strong communication, analytical, organization, and negotiation skills.
• Required: Proficiency with business software tools, including spreadsheets, word processing, and related applications.
• Required: Attention to detail and ability to manage changing priorities while meeting business objectives.
• Required: Ability to work effectively in a manufacturing environment

Salary: $80,000 - $90,000 plus bonus

Benefits: LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. LNCA is an employee-centered, growing company with tremendous opportunity

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North And Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us

About Legrand’s Data Center Power And Control Division

The industry-leading brands of Approved Networks, Ortronics, Raritan, Server Technology, and Starline empower Legrand’s Data, Power & Control to produce innovative solutions for data centers, building networks, and facility infrastructures. Our division designs, manufactures, and markets world-class products for a more productive and sustainable future. The exceptional reliability of our technologies results from decades of proven performance and a dedication to research and development.

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