Job Title:  Buyer Planner

The Planner Buyer is responsible for planning, scheduling, and purchasing materials required to support manufacturing operations at Hardy Process Solutions. This role ensures material availability, maintains optimal inventory levels, manages supplier performance, and supports on-time delivery of customer orders while balancing inventory investment and operational efficiency.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Production Planning: Create and maintain production schedules, analyze MRP recommendations, manage backlog and priorities.
• Purchasing & Supplier Management: Issue purchase orders, manage suppliers, expedite materials, resolve shortages and negotiate lead times.
• Inventory Management: Monitor inventory levels, manage excess inventory, support cycle counts and improve inventory turns.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Work with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Warehouse and Customer Service.
• Reporting & Analysis: Maintain ERP data and prepare inventory, supplier and backlog reports.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree preferred and 3+ years of experience in planning, purchasing, or supply chain.
• Strong analytical skills, ERP/MRP experience (IFS prefer), Excel proficiency, communication and supplier management skills, and bilingual spanish and english. 
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

Key Performance Indicators:

Material Availability, Production Schedule Adherence, Supplier On-Time Delivery, Inventory Accuracy, Inventory Turns, Customer On-Time Delivery, Purchase Price Variance, and Planning Data Accuracy.