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This position is responsible for managing raw material procurement and inventory for the Seven Hills mill in Lynchburg, VA. The spend year average is around $50M and is related to all fiber and other materials. This position is to support the Category Lead and support the communication between suppliers, freight forwarders, IPG Purchasing team and Plant Management.

The Associate Site Buyer’s role is required to implement, communicate and self-audit Purchasing corporate policies and procedures and adhered to both at the category and site level.

This role focuses on supporting the creation and maintenance of supply networks, procurement strategies and the optimization of best value fiber supply to assigned mill(s).

PLANT PURCHASING DUTIES

• Create and follow-up Purchase Orders

• Ensure the correct information from Winshuttle to SAP is flowing correctly.

• Request acceptance/confirmation from suppliers.

• Make necessary changes, if requested by the business.

• Create and update the PO follow up list to communicate with Transportation team.

• Update monthly price list and share with plant Controller.

• Maintain vendor & material source list updated in SAP.

• Eventually negotiate prices/conditions with suppliers

• Manage inventory level to guarantee material availability for the mill, reduce risks or no stock or too much stock.

• By daily/regular communication with the Operations and Planning department

• By daily communicating with suppliers and transportation

• Create/Maintain a Dashboard

• By supplier

• By fiber type

• By price comparison

• By mileage

• Fiber Market research

• Analyze data, future trends, and competitor activities.

• Send monthly updates to internal stakeholders.

• Regular communication with Category Lead, Plant Management and IPG Management when necessary

• Engage regularly with the Quality Manager to ensure consistency of fiber quality.

• Maximum contaminants at 2%

• Size of bales

• Integrity of bales

• Learn all about the fibers purchased.

• Understand the usage/final product/competitors.

• Differences between sources, colors, etc.

• How to plan, especially during holidays

• Lead-times

• When to committee with volumes/dates/suppliers

• Manages the daily activities:

• Good receipts – make sure all trucks are received in SAP.

• Make sure we do not have discrepancies regarding quantities, price, and conditions.

• Close open PO’s which deliveries were already made (balance is too small)

• Follow up with Transportation team and suppliers on POs not received/delivered as requested.

• Ensure suppliers are delivering the minimum quantity agreed per load, if not a surcharge will be applied.

• Cancel outstanding orders.

• Keep a lean/updated master data.

• Material master

• Vendor master

• Request through VMAS the creation of new suppliers or/and new pickup locations.

• Contracts/agreements in SAP

• Support other “procurement” activities in Lynchburg or any other CT required location. OTHER DUTIES

• Site audits of vendors and/or vendor facility tours when necessary.

• Completes all the mandatory purchasing training online and in-person.

• Performs analysis of portfolio of spend dashboard and key indexes.

• Monitors and mitigates and working to mitigate risks of supply.

• Works collaboratively with peers to exchange best practices and enhance professionalism and purchasing skillset to enable an integrated and high-performing purchasing function overall. Travel a 25%

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience which will provide a working knowledge of the laws, regulations, practices, and procedures concerned with purchasing activities.

• 5+ years’ experience in purchasing, inventory management in fibers.

• Excellent computer skills; including Microsoft Office.

• Passion for accomplishing preferred quality, service, and best value in Purchasing.

PREFERRED OR DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• SAP systems knowledge (Strongly Preferred)

• Comfortable working in a team environment.

• Leadership with people, projects, and the facility

• Experience using continuous improvement tools.

• Experience in a manufacturing environment (Strongly Preferred)

• 1 to 3+ years of experience in production and/or MRP planning in SAP or similar system.

• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communications skills.

• Negotiation--The ability to effectively produce outcomes to a situation to be best long-term benefit of the organization. Recognizes the degree of impact both short term and long term to all parties and makes best decisions to secure desired result.

• Business Acumen - The understanding of the financial, operational, and commercial impacts to delivering results to an organization. Ability to use that information to drive a strategy with understanding of risk and reward potential in both the long and short term.

• Customer Orientation-- Ability to conduct business with the papermill's best interest in mind while acting as the day-to-day connection with the papermill recycle fiber suppliers to ensure CertainTeed is viewed as the destination of choice.

• Communication Skills-- Communicate effectively with a variety of audiences – from direct peers up to senior leadership within the Recycle division, as well as with internal teams and external suppliers. Clearly expresses ideas in a written and spoken format. Able to build rapport with and understand the perspective of others. Effectively listens, speaks, and writes in a business context. Capable of conveying key messages clearly and correctly. Identifies key stakeholders and impacted parties to define appropriate audience. Engages these resources to appropriately assess situation and adjust to appropriately deliver message. Asks questions and listens without advancing your own perspective to ensure understanding. Concisely identifies key issues and constructs communication methods and message appropriate to audience.

• Creativity-- Bring improvement ideas and a willingness to assist in implementing those ideas and solutions.

• Ethics & Integrity-- Behave in accordance with CertainTeed’s core values all times and encourage the same behavior in others. Act based upon the best interest of CertainTeed and build trust with colleagues across the organization.

• Collaboration/Teamwork-- Work effectively with others in the organization outside the line of formal authority – both within your team, as well as with other teams or those in leadership – to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems.

• Results Driven-- Focus on achieving both personal and team goals to exhibit our core value of Excellence. Understands metrics and works to achieve the goals set.

• Persuasiveness-- Use appropriate interpersonal style and communication methods to gain acceptance of an idea, plan, activity, service or product from prospects and clients.

• Adaptable to Change-- Able to shift with an ever-changing environment as business grows; learn new systems, perform tasks differently.

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Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products,-CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm's slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is a leading North American brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, trim, insulation, drywall and ceilings.

A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed has more than 6,300 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada.- www.certainteed.com

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