Purchasing Specialist

Job Description

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 35,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

In Raleigh - Durham, North Carolina, Lilly is constructing a new and cutting-edge pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. This plant will be one of Lilly’s most technically advanced manufacturing sites and will include highly automated material flows and automated material storage and retrieval systems. The Supply Chain will be highly integrated, minimizing inventory holding, utilizing reusable/returnable containers and pallets in closed loop system design.

Reporting to the Director of Supply Chain and Logistics, the Purchasing Specialist is responsible for purchasing support to the Research Triangle Park (RTP) site. The Purchasing Specialist primarily supports analysis of purchasing needs, placing orders with suppliers, ensuring proper inventory levels are maintained, and general support of the supply chain and logistics team, including Shop Floor Control, Material Requirements Planning, and Purchasing processes. This role interfaces with both internal and external teams to achieve key site objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze inventory levels of items within SAP and act as needed (placing purchase orders, etc.)
• Place purchase orders (PO) with vendors providing proper lead time to allow production orders to be released on-time
• Monitor and adjust PO quantity and delivery dates as needed
• Build strong relationships with external vendors and internal team
• Forecast and manage material expirations and revisions to prevent production schedule disruptions and minimize destructions and obsolescence
• Oversight of material data, such as reorder points, safety stocks, lead times, and lot sizes
• Setup new material data in SAP
• Proactively manage dispatch list and communicate production needs to support groups using Anticipated Delay Reports (ADR’s)
• Work closely with production planners/schedulers to ensure production needs are met
• Troubleshoot receiving issues with POs and communicate to vendors on documentation needed to perform receipt
• Track and report purchasing metrics, including On-time deliveries, On-time PO release, Past due POs, and On-time Incoming inspection
• Project leadership and participation for process improvements, material revisions, launches, etc.
• Partnership with finance/procurement on evaluation of materials for slow-moving/obsolete inventory (SMOI) and obsolete inventory for destruction
• Process material destructions
• Coordination of test materials for project support
• Completion of investigations and tasks in TrackWise
• Support the start-up of the RTP site, partnering with quality, planning, and procurement to purchase raw materials required for both start-up activities and routine operations
• Create procedures / processes for the purchasing process

Basic Requirements:

• Experience in manufacturing, procurement, or supply chain function
• Basic SAP experience
• Ability to work independently with little day-to-day direction
• Strong communication skills
• Capability to prioritize and multi-task effectively
• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working safely and accountable for supporting all HSE objectives
• Collaborate with other functions as teams as appropriate
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 2 years work experience

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• APICS CPIM certification
• OSSCE knowledge and experience
• Advanced SAP experience
• 5+ years of work experience desired
• Experience in a pharmaceutical environment

Additional Information:

• Must be available as needed outside of core working hours as needed to support production issues
• Some travel may be required (<10%)

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As a condition of employment with Eli Lilly and Company in the United States and Puerto Rico, you must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated and provide valid proof of vaccination to the company.