Intermediate Buyer

**THE ROLE**

As a Buyer, your primary responsibilities will include managing purchase orders, negotiating with vendors, and ensuring timely materials delivery to meet customer demands. You’ll oversee inventory levels, handle vendor communications, and resolve price discrepancies on purchase orders. This is a great permanent opportunity for someone detail-oriented, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and enjoys using their negotiation and problem-solving skills to drive efficient purchasing processes while building strong relationships with suppliers. This position is located in Burlington for a medium-sized service shop.

**ADVANTAGES**
- $55k - $65k per year based on experience
- Permanent position in Burlington
- Monday to Friday from 7:30 am to 4 pm
- Opportunity for advancement and career growth
- Fantastic team of people that you get to work with
- Great benefits
- medical, vision, and dental
- Very clean and organized manufacturing plant
- Company events, great culture, and working conditions

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Enter purchase orders into the Accounting system
- Review and investigate price discrepancies on purchase orders
- Manage debit notes for vendors when items do not match purchase orders
- Investigating and determining what/how/why material came in incorrectly or damaged
- Communicate with suppliers regularly
- Assisting with physical inventory counts
- Monitoring price increases and communicating changes, as necessary
- Arrange for freight when necessary
- Utilize negotiation skills regularly
- Assist the Purchasing Manager in the yearend inventory process
- Manage costs when purchasing and for freight
- Responsible for setting up freight companies for shipping
- Update production summary report weekly for production meetings

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- High School Diploma required
- Experience in purchasing steel, including sourcing, negotiating, and managing supplier relationships is required
- Post-secondary education or certificates with a focus on purchasing or supply chain management are preferred
- Minimum 3-5 years experience working in a similar role
- Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics NAV software is an asset
- Working in a manufacturing environment is an asset
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
- Strong writing skills for creating reports, correspondence, contracts, requests, bids, and other documentation
- Sound analytical thinking, planning, prioritization, and execution skills
- Team player with strong problem-solving skills
- Fast-paced environment - must be able to work well under pressure

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $55,000.00-$65,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Procurement: 3 years (required)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2025-03-24
Expected start date: 2025-03-24