Jr. Buyer

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At SCIEX, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As part of SCIEX, you will help to influence life changing research and outcomes, while accelerating your potential. For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through ground-breaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support. You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.

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The Junior Buyer is responsible for generating purchase orders, maintenance of past due purchase orders, working with our warehouse team on receipt issues and processing defective material returned from our customers, working with the supplier to determine warranty status.  This position will drive for supplier on time delivery improvement and inventory reductions through visual and daily management practices and activities for sustained improvements. 

This position reports to the Procurement Manager and is part of the Supply Chain Team located in Carlsbad, CA and will be an on-site role. 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Review and convert daily material requirements into Purchase Orders, managing supplier communications, delivery confirmations and PO discrepancies.
• Expedite daily shortages to meet customer requirements and identify supply risk to leadership team
• Resolve inbound receiving issues by working with suppliers and our warehouse team.
• Investigate and disposition all defective material in sub-inventory Returns, As-Is and MRB (Material Review Board), working with suppliers and resolving all discrepancies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience Requirements:

• A Bachelors’ degree or 1+ years of experience in a procurement role (Distribution environment a plus)
• Familiarity with Oracle or similar ERP software.
• Proficient experience in Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent communication skills: both written and verbal.
• Detailed oriented and focused on delivering value to the customer.

Additional Requirements would be a plus:

• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a busy environment.
• Analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.

• Positive mindset & actively encourages other team members.

SCIEX, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is 63,000 - 75,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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