Buyer II

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) is seeking professional, innovative, and detail-oriented individuals to join our team as a Buyer. This role offers a unique opportunity to build and strengthen supplier partnerships, ensuring the highest quality, timely delivery, and competitive costs. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about strategic sourcing and supply chain management, this position is perfect for you!

As a Buyer a typical day might include the following:  

• Adhering to purchasing policies and practices to ensure highest quality, appropriate inventory levels, timely delivery, and competitive cost from suppliers.

• Executing strategic sourcing plans to support company objectives.

• Identifying and mitigating risks to the SEL supply chain; including market trends, capacity constraints, commodity risks, and business conditions for manufacturers and suppliers.

• Creating and improving supplier partnerships by identifying areas for improvement, escalating issues to management and executing corrective action plans in accordance with World Class Manufacturing principles.

• Demonstrating business professionalism, purchasing fundamentals, time management, data analytics, supply chain management, supplier development, cost reduction strategy development and negotiation techniques.

• Supporting on open projects by managing the supply chain and providing guidance on the part selection process and strategic supply partners.  

This job might be for you if: 

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher in business, operations, or supply chain; or a combination of relevant education and experience.

• You have intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel.

• You are familiar working with MRP/ERP systems.

• You have strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills.

Location  

UAE – Dubai Silicon Oasis

Why SEL?

Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.

We provide and take care of our employees with outstanding benefits, competitive pay, challenging work, and a rewarding career.

• Top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

• Varied leave plans like annual leaves, sick leaves, parental leaves etc. to maintain a healthy life balance

• Yearly flight tickets to home country for expat employees and their family members based on their eligibility

• Developmental programs like tuition assistance, internships, skill development courses and engineering development programs (EDP). 

• Wellbeing benefits like free and confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and reimbursable yearly gym membership

• International Travel Medical and Security Assistance to assist our traveling employees and accompanying family members worldwide

• Additional compensation for working on customer sites in the field based on eligibility

Pay Range Data

We base our starting pay offer on location and job-related factors such as candidate experience, training, knowledge, and skills.

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