Tactical Buyer

Company Confidential; Adairsville (GA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Company Confidential in Adairsville, GA is seeking a purchasing professional to compile requisitions, prepare POs, and track orders across departments. You will communicate with vendors and internal teams to keep orders moving and resolve any issues promptly.

The role requires negotiating skills, market analysis, and strong analytical capabilities to manage cost, supplier performance, and timelines. This position is based in Adairsville, GA and emphasizes accuracy and compliance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a purchasing role.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in purchasing, inventory, or supply chain management.
• Extensive knowledge of products.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills.
• Analytical and mathematical capabilities to compare prices and quantities and consider vendor contract terms.
• Ability to evaluate market conditions and various suppliers.
• Willingness to make quick and thoughtful decisions on behalf of the business.

Responsibilities

• Compile requests from departments for approved material requisitions and prepare purchase orders.
• Respond to enquiries about orders and ensure on-time deliveries.
• Ask price quotations to vendors and communicate them to purchasing requestors.
• Communicate with all departments on status of POs and delivery requirements.
• Follow up confirmation of order quantity, pricing, and availability.
• Resolve invoice issues in SAP and ensure audit compliance and order accuracy.
• Contact suppliers to ensure meeting delivery schedules and minimize risk of shortages.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Persuasion

Analytical thinking

Market analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in purchasing, supply chain management, or related field

Tools

SAP

Job description

To compile requests from various departments for approved material requisitions, prepare purchase orders, keep track of purchases and supplies, and respond to enquiries about orders. To ensure that the purchases arrived as scheduled and conform to specifications.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for motivating/ensuring everyone works safely and according to the stow’ QSHE standards to ensure that all work is done in a safe, efficient, and qualitative way.
• Complies with the attitude of Lean and continuous improvements in the organization.
• Responsible for ensuring that all executed activities and processes are in compliance with stow’ QSHE standards, policies, instructions, and local legislation.
• Ask price quotations to vendors & communicate them to purchasing requestors
• Creates PO’s based on Purchasing requisitions
• Communicate with all departments on status of PO’s
• Follows up confirmation of order quantity, pricing, and availability.
• Communication of orders to vendors
• Respond to supplier inquiries about clarifying orders, changes in requests, delivery requirements and cancellations
• Contact suppliers to ensure they are meeting delivery schedules and minimize the risk of missed deliveries.
• Resolve problems with suppliers to speed up deliveries and to minimize the risk of supply shortages.
• Review requisition orders to ensure accuracy and correct line item specifications.
• Solve invoice issues in SAP (missed quantities, price differences,..)
• Ensure audit compliance and order accuracy.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a purchasing role
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in purchasing, inventory, or supply chain management
• Extensive knowledge of products
• Strong communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills
• Analytical and mathematical capabilities to compare prices and quantities and consider vendor contract terms
• Ability to evaluate market conditions and various suppliers
• Willingness to make quick and thoughtful decisions on behalf of the business