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Buyer

Who are we?

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com.

Lumentum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Individuals with Disability

What will you do?

Lumentum is looking for a self-motivated professional Buyer who is an expert in Oracle for day-to-day purchasing activates. This position will be responsible for working closely with internal and external customers on processing and placing PO’s. This customer oriented position will help guide Lumentum global best practices in the area of supplier development, global commodity, lean purchasing, and technology-driven innovation leveraging established procurement policies, procedures and tools to generate cost savings, reduce risk and improve service delivery. Using data and strong process controls, advance supplier partnerships through the creation of long-term supply agreements that ensure fair, ethical, and compliant purchasing practices.

In This Position You Will Include

• Review all PR’s prior to processing for cost savings.
• Process and maintain PO.
• Work with internal customers on all BPO.
• Purchase inventory, work closely with material planners.
• Work with end user and/or category manager for contracts for PO.
• Work with AP and suppliers on all invoice holds.
• Data management, maintain supplier list.
  

You will be accountable for, but not limited, to the following tasks:

• PO process turnaround and past due orders
• Order acknowledgement
• Expediting
• Clearing AP holds.
• Tracking shipments
• Working directly with logistics teams
• Working with auditors as needed
  
  

Requirements

• 4+ years Global Purchasing experience and related disciplines
• 4+ years MRP systems experience and Oracle expertise mandatory
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field with major coursework in Supply Chain management or equivalent
• Experience with root cause determination through Oracle tools and reporting
• Proficient in Excel –manipulating data, exporting and extracting data for the purpose of report creation
• Power point and Agile knowledge