Buyer

Overview:
Are you passionate about improving patient health outcomes? Would you like to join an organisation with an established history where you can work on high-risk medical devices? This role will allow you to tap into your drive, initiative, creative solutions based thinking, and negotiating abilities.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensuring that procurement activities are executed in line with category guidance, and in compliance with relevant global policies, standards, guidelines, and operating procedures
- Monitoring and measuring assigned suppliers against industry norms for procurement and working with suppliers directly to improve supply reliability and cost down initiatives
- Partnering with approved suppliers globally and locally to develop supplier relationships based on Cook Values
- Actively participating within a Cook cross functional global team to understand business requirements and execute work based on procurement processes
- Collaborating with the Category Management teams on entity supply issues as required to maintain supply
- Ensuring that supply risks are identified, and plans are in place to protect entity operations

Qualifications:
**What we need from you**:
We are seeking people who align with our company values and have a passion for providing quality solutions to our patients. To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

- Understanding in Oracle ERP and experience with Oracle Cloud Procurement desired
- Knowledgeable of procurement systems and tools a must
- Direct and indirect procurement experience needed
- Demonstrated understanding of negotiations, driving cost reduction strategies and day to day procurement operations
- CPSM or CPM or other certification desired
- Understanding of demand planning and inventory management
- Excellent time management, planning and organising skills essential
- Intermediate proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills

**Employee Benefits**:

- Work from home 1-3 days per week
- Base salary plus performance-based quarterly bonus and annual leave loading
- Prioritise your physical and mental wellbeing with access to onsite gym and our employee assistance program
- Subsidised cafeteria, wellness room, prayer room and onsite parking
- Ongoing support, mentoring and professional development
- Inclusive team culture with opportunities to join our community engagement initiatives

**About us**:
Since 1963, Cook Medical have been inventing, manufacturing, and delivering a unique portfolio of medical devices to healthcare systems around the world. We work closely with physicians to develop technologies that improve patients’ lives. Because we remain family owned, we have the freedom to focus on what we care about: patients, our employees, and our communities.

At Cook Medical, whether we service patients, customers or colleagues, we all share a culture and a set of core values. The reflection of Cook’s seven values in our daily business activities is an expectation of us all. By acting with integrity, being transparent and treating everyone with respect we can truly collaborate and be open to different ideas and perspectives.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**:
We are proud of our diverse workforce and value individual contribution. We appreciate that every employee can add value to our Organisation in their own unique way and want to ensure that our company culture stays balanced and strong.

**Community Commitment**:
Our community program seeks to have a positive, transforming impact on our people, the environment and our local community. The program has four pillars:

- Community Engagement: We support our local community through philanthropy, education and partnerships. Our employees have been at the forefront of these initiatives, and we’re proud of their contribution to making our community stronger.
- Environment and Sustainability: We are committed to being good stewards of the environment by aiming to ensure that our practices and processes are sustainable and responsible.
- Employee Engagement: We invest in our internal community through developing our employees, supporting their wellbeing and promoting an inclusive and diverse culture.
- Reconciliation: We’re exploring a pathway towards making a meaningful commitment to Reconciliation by strengthening our understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ cultures, history and diversity.