Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted yesterday

Buyer

Sumitomo Electric Group495 open roles

Where
Raleigh, NC, United States
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowBuyerSumitomo Electric Group · Raleigh, NC, United States

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Sumitomo Electric Group's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.2%1 day
  2. 4.7%3 days
  3. 12.9%7 days
  4. 21.0%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.5%60 days
This job: posted yesterday

The posting

PURPOSE OF POSITION

Provide the lead responsibility for the procurement of manufacturing materials and/or services involving high dollar volume and/or complex technical characteristics requiring continuous and close contact with Engineering, Production Planning, and other key personnel to ensure that requirements to support our division operations are properly presented to and executed by supplier. Services and Capital projects contracts may also fall under this position.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Perform the functions of Buyer and in addition perform the following:

  1. Successfully develop and manage supplier relationships to best serve the needs of Corporate or Division objectives.
  2. Negotiate procurement of major commodities and/or services by properly balancing considerations of price, quality, service, delivery, payment terms, and commercial situations.
  3. Be able to complete a comprehensive contract covering all as facts of a purchase agreement, insuring legal and ethical requirements are met while still meeting Corporate or Division objectives.
  4. Analyze and interpret industry conditions and state of the art advancements which may have an affect on design, lead time, cost.
  5. Acquire a broad knowledge of supplier qualifications encompassing such items as sales and distribution policies, procedures, research and development support in order to ensure desired quality and delivery of assigned commodities.
  6. Analyze and evaluate all elements of cost and all procurement transactions of assigned commodities for maximum cost improvement.
  7. Maintain a general knowledge of technical requirements involved with assigned commodity responsibility so that our Division requirements are fully understood by suppliers.
  8. Provide management with forecasts of market conditions, price trends, and potential problem areas. Communicate detailed and sometimes technical information to internal customers to advance best practices and decision making. Assist purchasing management in training lower classified personnel.
  9. Knowledge of Energy and Facilities contracts.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS

I. KNOWLEDGE

  • Have a sound working knowledge of purchasing principles within a manufacturing environment including the ability to research, analyze, negotiate, and close various types of purchase efforts within the guidelines of good business and ethical practices.
  • B.S. Degree and five (5) years experience in Purchasing or related fields including Strategic Sourcing, Logistics, Inventory Management, Supplier Relationship Management, or Materials Management.
  • C.P.M. or C.P.S.M. certification a plus

II. PROBLEM SOLVING

  • Assuring a timely delivery of quality raw materials and components requires the proper choice of supplier.
  • Maintaining consistent pricing and cost improvement requires the creativity of product review, new supplier search, departmental interface for redesign and the ability to negotiate the needed price.
  • Responding to all levels of managerial requests requires the flexibility of dealing with new situations and demands while maintaining normal activities.

III. RESOURCE RESPONSIBILITY

Responsible for selecting suppliers, placing orders based on scheduled requirements, monitoring quality and delivery, and assuring accuracy of payment. The primary impact is that it allows manufacturing to produce and marketing to sell towards their individual and collective objectives.

IV. COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Contact with current and potential suppliers, from sales and technical representatives to ownership; and corporate interface from inter-departmental conferences through business unit personnel to corporate managerial levels require multi-level skills of communication. In different situations it can be necessary to teach, explain, negotiate, sell, correct, and convey attitudes or information and clarify positions to further organizational goals.

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:

  • Group health coverage (medical, dental, & vision)
  • Retirement plan with employer match
  • Company provided life insurance
  • Voluntary benefits at a discounted rate
  • 12 paid holidays and as well as generous vacation and sick time

About Sumitomo Electric Group

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. is a recognized global technology leader with over 280,000 employees working at around 400 group companies in 40 countries. Building on more than 120 years of innovation, today Sumitomo Electric is engaged in diversified business activities that support people’s daily lives and industries in five business segments: automotive, infocommunications, electronics, environment & energy, and industrial materials. To learn more about Sumitomo Electric, please visit https://sumitomoelectric.com. You can watch videos from our past interns and corporate profile from our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/SumitomoElectric/). Follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/sumitomo-electric).

SEL is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Sumitomo Electric Group's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Sumitomo Electric Group's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Sumitomo Electric Group's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.