Senior Buyer

At Trojan Technologies, we believe there’s nothing more essential than delivering clean water to the world. That’s especially true in this critical moment, when the world’s supply of clean water is under substantial stress due to industrialization, increasing demand, and rising biological and chemical contamination. Our mission is to stem that tide: to ensure greater water confidence and environmental stewardship for people, industries, and municipalities, improving the lives of over one billion people globally.

As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside customers from municipalities to pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies to build creative, sustainable solutions. You’ll also find a welcoming and supportive team that listens to your ideas and allows you to follow your strengths. All of us feel privileged to work on innovative technologies that bring clean water to the world—we hope you will, too.

Trojan is proud to be one of Danaher's Water Quality companies. Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.

At Trojan Technologies (www.trojantechnologies.com), our mission is to enable customers to meet their water quality objectives by providing eco-efficient solutions that reduce and recover costs, energy, resources and space. We ensure greater water confidence and environmental stewardship for people, industries and municipalities, improving the lives of over one billion people globally. Trojan Technologies encompasses five brands: Aquafine, Trojan Marinex, TrojanUV, Salsnes Filter and VIQUA. The products and services provided by these businesses play vital roles in making various stages of the water treatment process more effective, efficient and sustainable.

We are currently seeking a strategic thinker to fill a Senior Buyer role. This position is responsible for Strategic Supply Sources and will obtain materials, products and services from suppliers at the lowest cost consistent with considerations of quality, conformity to specifications, reliability of source and urgency of need. You will have full focus over the electronics commodity and custom panels, from negotiating to issuing purchase orders. If you are a successful negotiator and have knowledge of electronics and/or custom control panels, this could be the job for you!

We take safety seriously and have protective measures in place. As part of our essential procurement team, this role will work onsite in our London, ON office and not remotely.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads cross functional sourcing projects
• Ensures alignment of corporate policies and objectives with Purchasing team
• Mentors team members in sourcing strategy, negotiation and process improvement
• Analyzes requisition requirements, evaluated bids and awards contracts to the best qualified suppliers conformance to contract terms
• Participate and lead negotiation of large value purchases and supplier agreements
• Identify and implement cost savings and process improvement opportunities through ongoing review of spend categories with consideration of opportunities for contract consolidation
• Implementation of strategic supplier development program, inducing and developing global sourcing, ensuring procurement timeliness and developing purchasing cost reduction programs
• Analyze MRP outputs, respond to MRP action messages, plans strategies and coordinates all procurement activities relative to fulfilling site requirements
• Experience working with product lifecycle mgmt., document control and enterprise quality management systems.
• Measure and ensure supplier performance against key performance indicators such as cost, on time delivery and quality performance targets.
• Foster strong supplier relationships
• Respond to quality management issues

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 5 Years of purchasing experience
• Post-secondary education in related field preferred
• Background in electronics / electrical technology, custom control panels an asset
• SCMP or CPP certification
• Knowledge of Lean tools related to Procurement
• Familiarity with e-procurement / e-sourcing applications
• Ability to multi-task within tight deadlines
• Effective organization and planning skills
• Proven background in negotiation.
• Experience managing projects and leading teams
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Desire to accept and pursue greater responsibility with the growth of the department and organization

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 69,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.

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