Buyer

Aston Carter; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Aston Carter is seeking a Contract Buyer to join our Vancouver procurement team. The role focuses on maintaining purchase order integrity, ensuring vendor compliance with quality standards, and supporting the procurement lifecycle.

You will generate and process purchase orders, manage ERP-related messaging, collaborate with supplier quality teams, monitor inventory, and identify new suppliers to meet customer delivery expectations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a buyer or procurement position.
• Experience using ERP systems.
• Intermediate Excel skills, including pivot tables and formulas.
• Ability to read engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Generate, document, issue, review, and receive purchase orders and requisitions for material orders.
• Maintain purchase order integrity in alignment with ERP systems and manage exception messages.
• Collaborate with the supplier quality assurance team to ensure all vendors adhere to the Quality Management System.
• Provide vendor management to ensure all material orders meet customer requirements and delivery expectations.
• Communicate inbound and outbound shipment statuses to appropriate departments and identify delays.
• Distribute procurement information to other departments and coordinate material movements.
• Adhere to material spend and inventory goals.
• Identify new suppliers and foster long-term relationships.
• Monitor material inventory levels and determine purchasing demands.

Skills

Procurement experience

ERP systems

Excel pivot tables

Reading engineering drawings

Education

Post-secondary degree in supply chain management or related field

Job description

Job Title: Buyer

Job Description: Join one of Canada's largest growing companies as a Buyer within our dynamic procurement team. The Buyer will be integral to maintaining purchase order integrity, ensuring vendor compliance with quality standards, and supporting the procurement lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Generate, document, issue, review, and receive purchase orders and requisitions for material orders.
• Maintain purchase order integrity in alignment with ERP systems and manage exception messages generated by these systems.
• Collaborate with the supplier quality assurance team to ensure all vendors adhere strictly to the Quality Management System.
• Provide vendor management to ensure all material and resource orders meet customer requirements and delivery expectations.
• Communicate inbound and outbound shipment statuses to appropriate departments and identify any potential or realized delays.
• Distribute procurement information to other departments and coordinate all material movements.
• Adhere to material spend and inventory goals.
• Identify new suppliers and foster positive, long-term relationships.
• Monitor material inventory levels and determine purchasing demands.

Essential Skills

• 2+ years of experience in a buyer or procurement position, including dealing with suppliers, managing purchase orders, expediting, and PO invoice reconciliation.
• Experience using ERP systems.
• Intermediate Excel skills, including proficiency in pivot tables and formulas.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in the manufacturing industry
• Post-secondary degree in supply chain management or a related field.
• Ability to read engineering drawings.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, BC.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $31.25 - $36.05/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, BC.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Vancouver,BC.

À propos d'Aston Carter

Aston Carter fournit des solutions de talent de classe mondiale à des milliers de clients à travers le monde. Spécialisés dans la comptabilité, la finance, les ressources humaines, lacquisition de talents, les achats, la chaine dapprovisionnement, et certaines professions administratives, nous étendons les capacités des entreprises à la pointe de lindustrie. Nous nous appuyons sur notre profonde expertise en matière de recrutement et sur notre vaste réseau pour répondre aux besoins évolutifs de nos clients et de notre communauté de talents avec agilité et excellence. Avec des bureaux aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Asie et en Europe, Aston Carter est au service dun grand nombre dentreprises du classement Fortune 500. Nous sommes fiers davoir remporté la désignation « Prix Platine » dans le cadre des prix Best of Staffing® Client et Talent décernés par ClearlyRated.

Aston Carter est un employeur souscrivant au principe de légalité des chances et accepte toutes les candidatures sans tenir compte de la race, du sexe, de lâge, de la couleur, de la religion, des origines nationales, du statut dancien combattant, dun handicap, de lorientation sexuelle, de lidentité sexuelle, des renseignements génétiques ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi.

Si vous souhaitez faire une demande daccommodement raisonnable, tel que la modification ou lajustement du processus de demande demploi ou dentrevue à cause dun handicap, veuillez envoyer un courriel à [e-mail] ([e-mail]) pour connaître dautres options daccommodement.

Ordonnance sur légalité des chances de San Francisco: Conformément à lOrdonnance sur légalité des chances de San Francisco, pour tous les postes situés dans la ville et le comté de San Francisco, nous examinerons les candidatures des personnes qualifiées ayant un casier judiciaire ou des antécédents criminels.

Utilisation de lintelligence artificielle (IA): Nous pouvons utiliser lintelligence artificielle (IA) pour soutenir certaines étapes de notre processus dembauche, notamment la recherche, la présélection et lévaluation des candidatures. LIA aide à analyser les candidatures et les qualifications, mais les décisions finales sont prises par notre équipe de recrutement. En soumettant votre candidature, vous reconnaissez et acceptez que celle-ci puisse être examinée à laide doutils dIA.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email [e-mail] ([e-mail]) for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.