Buyer - Optical Solutions

Buyer - Optical Solutions Ensures adherence to all safety, environmental and purchasing policies, guidelines, and procedures. Utilizes company's purchasing system to process purchase orders from requisitions. Ensures the contractual document accurately reflects the terms and conditions of purchase, including payment terms, freight terms, incoterms, and other key commercial terms. Issues requests for quotations (RFQ), analyzes and evaluates quotes, negotiates price and terms, and exercises independent judgment to select suppliers based on lowest total cost of ownership. Understands our company's strategic supply agreements and utilizes these to maximize value. Collaborates with internal requestors to understand requirements (e.g., specifications, scopes of work, performance, and timing requirements). Demonstrates high level of customer focus and sense of urgency. Uses strong verbal and written communication skills to solve problems and provide status updates to customers and suppliers (e.g., commitment dates). Analyzes root causes of accounts payable exceptions and takes steps to resolve and prevent. Initiates changes to improve the effectiveness of the purchasing process. Manages own time to accomplish goals and prioritize a variety of tasks. Responsible for administration of contractor management tools, including Ariba, Coupa, and SAP. Bachelor's degree or comparable work experience 1 year of procurement and/or supply chain experience Experience working in manufacturing and/or production environment Experience using Microsoft Office Suite including Teams, Microsoft Word (document creation), Outlook (email and calendar), and SharePoint Intermediate Excel skills, including experience with functionality and logic formulas Experience with ERP system Experience with SAP At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Created: 2026-03-06