Buyer

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Palatka (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC in Palatka, FL is seeking a contribution motivated Buyer to support our site in a fast-paced, high-volume purchasing environment. You will work with mill requestors to understand requirements, manage MRO, direct materials, and services from vendors, and learn about contracts and local policies.

The role is onsite with the opportunity to work 1–2 days per week from home, supporting strategic sourcing through RFQs, bid analysis, and supplier negotiations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree combined with at least 1 year of procurement experience, OR 3+ years in procurement or related fields.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite including Teams, Word, Outlook, and SharePoint.
• Intermediate Excel skills, including experience with functionality and logic formulas.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase orders from requisitions using the purchasing system.
• Negotiate price and terms with suppliers to achieve lowest total cost of ownership.
• Ensure contracts reflect payment, freight, incoterms, and other key commercial terms.
• Collaborate with internal customers to understand requirements and timing.
• Administer contractor management tools such as Ariba, ISNET, and SAP/S4.

Skills

Procurement experience

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SAP/S4

Ariba

Power BI

Microsoft Office Suite

Excel

Job description

Your Job

We are looking for a contribution motivated Buyer to support our Georgia‑Pacific site in Palatka, FL. The Palatka mill is in Northeast Florida about an hour South of Jacksonville and just minutes west of the beautiful Atlantic beaches of historic St. Augustine, Florida. The role includes purchasing activities in a high volume, time‑critical environment. The Buyer will work with the mill’s requestors to understand requirements including specifications, service needs and performance expectations. They will gain experience with Maintenance Repair and Operating (MRO) supplies, direct materials, chemicals, equipment spare parts and outside services from external vendors. The individual will learn about national, regional, and local contract agreements and ensure compliance with applicable corporate and local policies and guidelines.

This is an onsite role with the opportunity to work 1–2 days per week from home.

Our Team

Georgia‑Pacific’s Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical materials and services to support our production facilities. The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.

What You Will Do

• Ensures adherence to all safety, environmental and purchasing policies, guidelines, and procedures.


• Utilizes company’s purchasing system to process purchase orders from requisitions.


• Ensures the contractual document accurately reflects the terms and conditions of purchase, including payment terms, freight terms, incoterms, and other key commercial terms.


• Issues requests for quotations (RFQ), analyzes and evaluates quotes, negotiates price and terms, and exercises independent judgment to select suppliers based on lowest total cost of ownership.


• Knowledgeable of Company’s strategic supply agreements and utilizes these to maximize value.


• Collaborates with internal requestors to understand requirements (e.g., specifications, scopes of work, performance, and timing requirements).


• Demonstrates high level of customer focus and sense of urgency.


• Uses strong verbal and written communication skills to solve problems and provide status updates to customers and suppliers (e.g., commitment dates).


• Analyzes root causes of accounts payable exceptions and takes steps to resolve and prevent.


• Initiates changes to improve the effectiveness of the purchasing process.


• Manages own time to accomplish goals and prioritize a variety of tasks.


• Responsible for administration of contractor management tools, including Ariba, ISNET, and SAP/S4.


• Facilitates competitive bid events through Ariba and analyzes vendor’s bids to ensure compliance to requirements.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree combined with at least 1 year of procurement experience, OR 3+ years of experience in procurement or similar field (e.g., project management, warehousing, accounting, supply chain)


• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite including Teams, Microsoft Word (document creation), Outlook (email and calendar), and SharePoint


• Intermediate Excel skills, including experience with functionality and logic formulas

What Will Put You Ahead

• Buying experience


• Experience using SAP or similar ERP systems


• Familiar with Power BI


• Knowledge of purchasing process and procedures and key commercial terms such as freight payables, incoterms, delivery terms, and invoice reconciliations among others.


• Experience in negotiating contracts at a local, regional, or national level


• Experience working in a manufacturing or maintenance environment

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper‑based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia‑Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 300,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E‑Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E‑Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).