What you will do: **The Buyer is responsible for performing purchasing activities for assigned portfolio to ensure a high level of customer service. The role will interface daily with suppliers to ensure that we have procured the right amount of finished goods or materials from the supplier and will mitigate and adjust requirements based on weekly planning reviews from supply planning. The Buyer will operate proactively in identifying supply chain risk. The role will work alongside Supply Planners, Production Schedulers and Sourcing Managers.** **Responsibilities:** + Maintain master data set up in the transactional systems, including e.g. but not limited to: supplier lead time, lot size, MOQ and buyer purchasing group. + Communicate forecast requirements to suppliers basing on information from production schedulers and supply planning. + Ensure all POs are placed accordingly to purchasing signals and ensure the Order Confirmation from supplier on timely manner. + Ensure the exception messages (pull in, push out and cancel) execution and update the system accordingly. + Act as the first line of contact with suppliers and provide information based on the current supply requirements, PO changes and quality issues communication / follow ups. Drive meeting with suppliers to review and resolve supply issues. + Work and coordinate cross-functionally to support Stryker initiatives and support activities to improve business processes and continuity, materials availability, ensure quality requirements and documentation. + Proactively prepare reports and analyze to identify supply gaps and opportunities and drive improvement activities to close them. + Represent purchasing function at meetings with suppliers and cross functional departments. + Involvement in projects to ensure the supply as capacity increases or price increases + Review of back order and safety stock health to manage deliveries from suppliers + Point of contact for Accounts Payable for invoice resolution: price mismatch, quantity mismatch etc. What you need: + Bachelor’s degree level in Business/Industrial o Materials Engineering/Supply Chain Management. + Minimum of 3 years of experience in Purchasing, Procurement, or Manufacturing. + Proficient in written and spoken English. + Good knowledge of MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, Teams + High sense of urgency, structure and attention to detail. + Team worker Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.