Buyer Job at Silver Falls Capital, Woodinville, WA

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  • Silver Falls Capital
  • Woodinville, WA

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

The Buyer will manage materials for all vendor accounts across the Silver Falls Capital portfolio. This includes purchasing to AVL (Approved Vendor List) for assigned commodities/suppliers, working with suppliers, master scheduler, and program manager to achieve optimized MOQ’s (minimum order quantity), minimizing obsolete and excess inventory, minimizing PPV (purchase price variance) and inventory turns. This is an amazing opportunity to apply your critical thinking, curiosity, and creativity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Manage vendors to ensure provided materials meet quality and delivery standards
  • Resolve and countermeasure line-down situations
  • Manage the control of inventory through cycle counts and root cause analysis of discrepancies
  • Participate and initiate continuous improvement through the use of Sportworks Business System lean tools
  • Establish and maintain materials 5S (Kanban card management, labeling, ERP audits, etc)
  • Maintain and adhere to Buyer standard work and provide training to others on the same (as applicable)
  • Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of goods and services
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand their purchasing needs and requirements
  • Manage the procurement process from start to finish, including issuing purchase orders and tracking the delivery of goods and services
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Expected Behaviors Aligned with Cultural Values and Anchors:

  • Teamwork is of utmost importance having a collaborative approach, actively engaging with cross-functional teams, supportive mentorship, and effective communications are key to this role.
  • Having an innovative mindset, a proactive problem-solver and a continuous learning approach is the core of being curious and taking action.
  • Always striving for the best, excelling in performance, being detailed oriented, a strategic thinker and is able to execute on both the company objectives and long-term goals, is paramount in setting a high bar.
  • Being respectful in all interactions, trustworthy, fair, and acting with the utmost of integrity and ethical conduct.

Minimum Education, Experience and Skills:

  • Proven ability to problem-solve in complex issues that arise from inventory
  • High level of proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas, pivots, if/then, charts, graphs, etc.)
  • Self-starter who seeks out ways to improve processes and drive standard work
  • Ability to be effective in a fast-paced, metric-driven environment
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication (role is vendor and internal customer-facing)

Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills:

  • Experience working directly in mechanical or engineering environments
  • Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and tools (Kaizens, improvement workshops, etc.), and continuous improvement techniques
  • Use of ERP

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Be flexible, adaptable, able, and willing to modify activities and direction in an ever-changing business environment
  • Must be able to stand, walk, push, pull, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
  • This position requires the employee to be on-site at our Woodinville, WA office. Remote or hybrid work arrangements are not available for this role.

About Silver Falls Capital Sportworks, Omni CleanAir, Bird Buffer, and CITC are wholly owned subsidiaries of Silver Falls Capital, LLC, a private investment company that is focused on the acquisition and successful operation of businesses for the long term. With decades of hands-on experience running and improving businesses, we bring leadership, business acumen, and investments to help companies and their teams achieve their full potential.


All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age (over 40), or disability (including AIDS and cancer-related medical condition)

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