Material Buyer - Instrument Operations Network (ION)

Main tasks and duties: Operational Buying:• Perform daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly standard work to meet all objectives. • Order Handling: Process purchase requisitions, issue purchase orders for global suppliers, track deliveries, and resolve order-related issues. • Supplier Forecasting: Manage supplier forecasts, anticipate production plan changes, and implement actions to ensure material availability. • Invoice Verification and Approval: Review invoices for accuracy, resolve discrepancies, and ensure timely processing to avoid payment delays. • Data Maintenance and Reporting: Maintain accurate supplier data in SAP and iCollab, generate reports on orders and supplier performance, and act as Key User & first-level support for procurement tools. Ensure Material Availability: Delivery Monitoring & Escalation:• Track and ensure timely deliveries, escalate potential delays, and drive risk mitigation actions to prevent material shortages support supplier capacity planning to set correct priorities for our ION production network • Confirms product availability and negotiates alternative solutions when appropriate. Interacts with external and internal customers, production planners, and warehouse staff to ensure items are made available on time. Supplier Management & Supplier Collaboration:• provide sufficient information for supplier review meetings and background information to support long-term supplier development activities • Ensure smooth processes of implemented supplier collaboration • Support supplier collaboration project to improve efficiency and automation and manage supplier access and issue resolution in iCollab. • Visits suppliers' facilities for improvement initiatives and problem solving. Teamwork and Collaboration:• Ability to work with a wide variety of individuals at all levels and organizational structures at suppliers and within Roche to attain the delivery schedules required. • Proactively communicates with appropriate departments, when problems are suspected or become evident. • Facilitates discussion across teams to ensure any Change Orders are implemented in a timely manner to prevent disruption of supply. • Interfaces with Manufacturing and Quality to disposition discrepant material.. Project tasks (up to 30%):• Contribute to cross-site initiatives and stakeholder projects. • Communicates with all departments when possible improvements can be made, such as quantity discounts or other cost savings. Additional tasks, duties and responsibilities:• Permanently optimize processes to increase quality and efficiency standards. • Complies with all FDA and Quality Systems requirements. • Complete all training in a timely manner to meet compliance requirements of?=95% Additional tasks, duties and responsibilities: - Other duties as assigned by management.