Buyer

Community Excellence Foundation; Iowa City (IA); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium healthcare

Home-office allowance

Distributed team

Job summary

Community Excellence Foundation seeks a mid-level Buyer in Iowa City who values empathy and deliberate decision making over routine habits. You’ll bring about 4+ years in a general role and apply critical thinking.

Key responsibilities include keeping systems healthy, mapping IA handoffs, and translating stakeholder asks into actionable process improvements.

The role is distributed, with premium healthcare, home-office support, and a salary range of $65,000 to $97,000.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in a general role.
• Ability to surface risks early and surface insights.

Responsibilities

• Leave every general system a little better than you found it.
• Keep the IA engine running while you rebuild parts of it.
• Refuse to let Teamwork debt quietly accumulate on your watch.
• Keep Community Excellence Foundation's temporary commitments visible and on track.
• Map the handoffs between IA teams so nothing falls in the cracks.
• Translate fuzzy stakeholder asks into a crisp Process Improvement plan.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Empathy

Decision Making

Collaboration

Job description

This mid-level Buyer opening at Community Excellence Foundation suits someone who'd rather master Empathy than coast on 4 of habit. A mid-level Buyer seat that takes 5 years of Critical Thinking seriously, pays $65,000 - $97,000, and hands over the general reins.

Key Responsibilities

• Leave every general system a little better than you found it
• Keep the IA engine running while you rebuild parts of it
• Refuse to let Teamwork debt quietly accumulate on your watch
• Keep Community Excellence Foundation's temporary commitments visible and on track
• Map the handoffs between IA teams so nothing falls in the cracks
• Translate fuzzy stakeholder asks into a crisp Process Improvement plan

What You'll Bring

• Comfort owning general decisions in an IA market
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• A collaborator who makes the mid-level review feel less like an exam
• Around 4+ years of hands-on experience in a general role

The growth-minded people at Community Excellence Foundation have spent years proving that world-class Initiative can absolutely come out of Iowa City. Every voice in the IA office gets airtime, especially the ones still finding their volume.

Your package includes $65,000 - $97,000, premium healthcare, and a generous home-office allowance for our distributed team.

We refreshed it today so candidates know the temporary role is genuinely open.