Buyer Planner

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

The Operations Buyer Planner is responsible for tasks associated with procuring parts, subassemblies, finished goods and refurbished units as required to support and maintain delivery commitments to customer installations and deployments.  Collaboration in the creation and management of demand requirements and corresponding supply execution. Also manages the RMA process with suppliers. 

Essential Job Functions:

• Analyze demand requirements to determine most economical delivery
• Planning supply to meet customer demand requirements, ensuring pipeline of products to meet on time delivery commitments
• Manage product flow from order to delivery.
• Maintain Purchase Order data integrity and ensure promise date integrity
• Obtain supplier delivery commitments, and expedite if commitments don’t meet required dates
• Drive on-time delivery with suppliers and with customer deployments
• Collaboration with field service operations resources to ensure successful delivery of products and conformance to installation dates at customer sites
• Ensure PO pricing reflects the best possible price, or aligns with price changes laid out in supplier MSA’s
• Resolve supplier issues regarding pricing, delivery, receiving, and quality issues
• Maintain Purchasing attributes – price, lead time, addresses
• Reviews bills of materials accuracy and integrity
• Monitor on-time performance of incoming materials
• Monitor supplier performance to a continuous improvement plan, collaboration with vendor to drive continuous improvement
• Purchase materials for manufacturing and engineering requirements as assigned
• Make decisions and/or recommendations to drive lowest cost of ownership while maintaining commitments on customer deliveries

• Initiates, sponsors, and implements changes to RMA process where needed
• Manage refurbishment process to ensure that returned assets are assessed and restored
• Management of parts to ensure sufficient materials to maintain fleet of gaming terminals in the field.
• Engage in quality challenges and remediation of issues with vendors impacting quality
• Management of inventory control and inventory levels
• Monitors day-to-day supplier compliance to return of product at correct re-work cost

Qualifications

Training and/or Experience

• Ability to work closely with other departments and suppliers.    
• Strong problem-solving skills.     
• Ability to collaborate with all stakeholders in a professional and effective way
• Excellent communication skills.
• Detail oriented and well organized.
• Strong computer skills, specifically Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Ability to manage multiple projects.
• Understanding of drawings and BOM structures
• Understanding of Inventory Management and Supply Chain
• NetSuite experience is a plus
• Oracle experience is a plus

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

High school diploma, or GED equivalent, and/or post-secondary degree.

Physical Requirements: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions:

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses.   As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.   In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles.  As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. 

L&W is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: EEOC Poster.

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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.