Zimplistic Pte Ltd – Assistant Buyer

About the Role: Assistant Buyer will work hand in hand with the procurement engineer and will be responsible for managing day-to-day responsibilities associated with supporting material planning, including ordering, expediting, deferring and general order management responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Assist Procurement Engineer in planning, scheduling, coordinating and approving product release to the production planning systems based on supplier’s material and capacity availability.
• Assisting in providing input to Procurement Engineer, reschedules, and /or interfaces with internal departments, the mas­ter scheduling, to reschedule production in the event of design changes, labor and material shortages, backlogs, and other potential schedule interruptions.
• Handles set of purchasing process - RFQ, Issue purchase orders and follow up with suppliers on deliveries.
• Ability to contact the local and overseas suppliers through phone & email for purchase order coordination.
• Track and ensuring timely shipments from suppliers.
• Prepare documents on purchase order release
• Assist Procurement Engineer in weekly Buy list and update the status to EMS.
• Rejections management – coordinate with suppliers, QA, Production and Engineering department. 
• Update the inventory tracker on daily basis.
• Work with Finance team to arrange for supplier payments.
• Arrange for shipment of components for development purposes,
• Assist with other ad-hoc duties

Requirements :

• 0-2 years experience with bachelors 
• Able to commit at least 5-6 months 
• Excellent written and verbal communication/interpersonal skills
• Comfortable with multi-tasking at a fast pace using time management and prioritization skills
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with internal and external resources to get results
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite with extensive experience using MS Excel