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Buyer/Purchasing
Aditi Consulting
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- 21 hours ago
- $22 – $23 / hour
- Excel
- Outlook
- ERP
- AI
- Pension
21 hours ago
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
This indirect buyer will support the EPD Plant by purchasing non-production goods and services needed to keep plant operations, maintenance, facilities, tooling, safety, and business support activities moving. The role will convert approved requisitions into accurate purchase orders, obtain competitive quotes, confirm delivery dates, resolve invoice and receipt issues, and maintain clear communication with internal requestors and suppliers.
Typical Task Breakdown:
- Review approved requisitions and confirm scope, specifications, supplier, pricing, account information, and required delivery date.
- Create and maintain accurate purchase orders in M2M and other applicable purchasing systems.
- Follow up on open orders, past-due commitments, acknowledgements, and urgent requests until closure.
- Resolve invoice, receiving, damaged material, return/RMA, quality, and supplier performance issues.
- Maintain clear documentation and communicate status, risks, and required actions to stakeholders.
- Years of experience: 2-4 years of purchasing, procurement, supply chain, operations, finance, or closely related experience.
- Open to Master’s with at least 1 year of experience
- Open to associated degree with 6 experience
Top 3 Skills:
- Purchasing execution and supplier follow-up: accurate PO creation, acknowledgement, delivery tracking, expediting, and closure.
- Commercial judgment: quote analysis, total-cost evaluation, negotiation, and selection based on price, quality, service, lead time, and risk.
- Communication and ownership: prompt updates, attention to detail, organized documentation, and disciplined follow-through across multiple priorities.
Additional Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and Teams.
- Experience using an ERP, MRP, or purchasing system to create and maintain purchase orders.
- Ability to analyze quotations, pricing, lead times, order status, and basic financial or technical information.
- Working knowledge of procurement controls, supplier documentation, and purchase-to-pay processes.
- Experience with M2M/Aptean or a comparable manufacturing ERP system.
- Indirect, facilities, tooling, service, or plant procurement experience.
- Experience resolving invoice discrepancies, returns/RMAs, and receiving issues.
- Exposure to supplier performance tracking, cost savings, and competitive bidding.
Soft Skills:
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Sense of urgency and consistent follow-through.
- Organization, accuracy, and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Professional supplier and stakeholder relationship management.
- Problem-solving and willingness to escalate risks early.
- Self governance /working independently
- Continuous-improvement mindset and curiosity about plant operations.
- Confidence working independently while collaborating across functions.
Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $22.00 - $23.00/hr. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.
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