Sr Buyer/Planner

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Fort Worth, TX
Junior
Healthtech • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
The Role
As a Sr Buyer/Planner at Alcon, you will be responsible for establishing material requirements, optimizing procurement activities, and managing inventory to ensure timely production. You'll collaborate with teams, monitor raw material delivery, and maintain data integrity while addressing capacity issues and production schedules.
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At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Sr Buyer/Planner supporting Supply Chain Team you will be trusted to provide long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals at Fort Worth, Texas in US.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish material requirements for assigned business unit, place orders from external suppliers, and ensure timely receipt of materials to meet production plans. In addition, coordinate production scheduling based on material availability and manage product obsolescence.

  • Optimize procurement activities to ensure materials availability while minimizing inventory costs.

  • Minimize the total cost of purchased materials.

  • Ensure prompt disposition of defective materials, including excess and obsolete, and ordering the optimum quantity of materials on time.

  • Participate in CIP activities to obtain the best value for Alcon.

  • Monitor and manage delivery of raw materials to assure or eliminate production downtime.

  • Maintain MRP parameters such as safety stock, safety lead time, lot sizing and other order parameters, and adjust future materials plans to minimize inventory while maintaining required customer service levels.

  • Maintain accurate manufacturing system data to ensure customer service levels and inventory costs are not impacted by data integrity problems, as well as overall compliance with all Quality and Regulatory requirements.

  • Participate in new product launch teams as both an OP's and Materials representative and ensure components are procured and production builds are issued to meet product release schedules.

  • Evaluate proposed ECNs and product phaseouts, and establish appropriate plans to minimize implementation and/or phaseout costs, consistent with the requirements of the plan.

  • Keep work areas clean and free of hazards or dangerous conditions and work safely.

  • Perform and document routine assessments of area to identify/confirm ongoing compliance to safety and housekeeping requirements.

  • Define material requirements that support the production schedule.

  • Analyze and act on MRP suggested actions to schedule purchased material in accordance with inventory policy, to assure continuous availability and minimize excess or obsolete inventory.

  • Improve the speed and accuracy of buying and planning processes.

  • Collaborate with coworkers to meet business objectives and enhance team capability.

  • Develop personal knowledge and skill, continuously learn, and complete all required training.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +10 yrs; Assoc.+6 yrs; M.S.+0yrs)

  • The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English

  • 2 Years of Relevant Experience

  • Work hours: Business Exempt: Monday – Friday from 8:00am – 5:00pm

  • Travel Requirements: 0 to 10% Domestically

  • Relocation assistance: No

  • Sponsorship available: No

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:

  • Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!
  • Collaborate with teammates to share standard processes and findings as work evolves!
  • See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities!
  • Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off for exempt associates, PTO for hourly associates, and much more!

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Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

The Company
HQ: Geneva
20,962 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1945

What We Do

Alcon helps people see brilliantly. As the global leader in eye care with a heritage spanning more than seven decades, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to enhance sight and improve people’s lives. Our Surgical and Vision Care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people in over 140 countries each year living with conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and refractive errors. Our more than 20,000 associates are enhancing the quality of life through innovative products, partnerships with eye care professionals and programs that advance access to quality eye care.

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