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Our client is seeking a Senior Buyer to support spare parts purchasing for its Radford facilities. This role will manage supplier sourcing, procurement, negotiations, and supplier performance while driving cost savings and supporting long-term supply chain objectives.

• Identify, qualify, and onboard global suppliers to support business objectives and sector offset targets.
• Manage the RFQ process, evaluate supplier bids, perform cost and price analyses, negotiate terms, and make sourcing decisions.
• Develop and implement long-term sourcing strategies and supplier agreements.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and suppliers on quality improvements, cost reductions, and design changes.
• Monitor global market trends and mitigate supply shortages and pricing changes.
• Build supplier relationships and manage supplier performance throughout the procurement life cycle.
• Partner with program teams, commodity managers, and tactical buyers to develop approved sources and support purchasing needs.
• Analyze forecast data and identify innovative technologies and processes that improve margins and service delivery.
• Apply continuous improvement methods to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
• Maintain procurement compliance documentation and promptly close completed purchase orders.
• Follow applicable safety policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and four years of relevant work experience, or equivalent experience.
• Experience purchasing multiple commodities.
• Working knowledge of RFQ/RFP development, contracts, financial analysis, negotiations, and purchase order documentation.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering requirements, blueprints, schematics, and component drawings.
• Experience managing data, analytics, and reporting within an ERP system.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Strong communication, analytical, and supplier relationship management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Defense industry experience.
• Familiarity with ITAR restrictions and FAR/DFARS requirements.
• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).
• Experience conducting supplier audits.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• 401k

 

Pay Range: $44.00 - $49.00 per hour (Depending on experience and qualifications)

 

 

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• In charge of identifying, qualifying, and onboarding global suppliers with consideration of achieving the sector offset targets and other business objectives • Demonstrate technical capability in order to communicate effectively with design / component engineering on quality improvement topics and cost reduction / design change opportunities both internally and within the supply base • Exhibit good interpersonal skills in order to grow supplier relationships in order to support our business needs • Identify and collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to introduce new and innovative technologies and processes to improve margins and service delivery • Monitor and evaluate global markets trends, intervene to manage/mitigate the impact of supply shortfalls or price adjustments, or market opportunities • Responsible for leading and implementing long-term strategic projects and executing long-term strategic supplier agreements • Drives strategic initiatives, manages and fully executes the RFQ process, analyzes supplier bids and makes sourcing decisions • Development of suppliers approved for quote while collaborating with program and category teams • Enhance and strengthen supplier relationships • Further the development and implementation of long-term strategic projects and engage in a high degree of collaboration and communication with commodity managers, tactical buyers and other integrated supply chain areas • Ability to analyze forecasted data and suppliers' bids • Applies continuous improvement techniques and methods to internal processes and systems to increase efficiency and reduction of cost • Ensure appropriate cost or price analysis is performed to determine the reasonableness of the supplier's bid or to develop a negotiation position to ensure that all compliance documentation requirements are met • Responsible for the prompt close-out of completed orders • Responsible for total supplier performance throughout the life cycle of procured materials and services • Maintains a safe work environment and ensures compliance with safety objectives and policies • Shares responsibility of self-development with immediate supervisor • Working knowledge with developing RFQ/RFP, contracts, preparing financial analysis, negotiations, and PO documentation • Working knowledge of engineering requirements, terms, and blueprints • Ability to manage data, analytics, and reporting in ERP
Experience with purchasing multiple commodities • Experience with reading and interpreting schematics and component drawings • Experience working with cross-functional teams • Experience utilizing MS Office Suite (Excel)
• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years' work experience or equivalent experience

PGS Worldwide is seeking Senior Buyers in Radford, Virginia for an approximately six-month onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. These positions will support procurement of facility spares, strategic sourcing, supplier development, negotiations, and supplier performance across multiple commodities.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of relevant purchasing, procurement, supply-chain, or sourcing experience, or equivalent experience.

• Experience purchasing multiple commodities.

• Experience developing and managing RFQs/RFPs, contracts, negotiations, and purchase-order documentation.

• Experience performing financial, cost, or price analysis in support of sourcing decisions and negotiations.

• Working knowledge of engineering requirements, terminology, schematics, blueprints, and component drawings.

• Experience reading and interpreting technical drawings and specifications.

• Experience managing supplier data, analytics, and reporting within an ERP system.

• Experience working with cross-functional engineering, procurement, quality, and supply-chain teams.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.

• Strong supplier-management, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Aerospace or defense industry experience.

• Knowledge of ITAR requirements.

• Familiarity with FAR/DFAR requirements.

• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).

• Supplier-audit experience.

What You'll Do

• Identify, qualify, and onboard suppliers supporting facility-spares requirements.

• Develop and execute RFQs and evaluate supplier bids.

• Perform cost and price analyses and establish negotiation positions.

• Make sourcing recommendations based on technical, cost, schedule, quality, and supplier-performance considerations.

• Negotiate and administer supplier agreements and purchase orders.

• Develop and strengthen supplier relationships.

• Monitor supplier performance throughout the lifecycle of purchased materials and services.

• Analyze forecast data, supply-market conditions, pricing trends, and supply risks.

• Partner with engineering teams on quality improvements, cost reduction, and design-change opportunities.

• Support development of new suppliers and expand the approved supplier base.

• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives and long-term supplier agreements.

• Apply continuous-improvement methods to procurement processes and systems.

• Ensure required procurement and compliance documentation is complete.

• Support timely closeout of completed purchase orders.

Work Schedule / Shift

• 9/80 schedule

• Approximately 8:00 AM 5:00 PM

• Full-time onsite in Radford, Virginia.

Pay

• $43.10 per hour.

Job ID: 7758

Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.

Our client, a manufacturer of large-scale fabricated and machined components for the hydroelectric power industry, is hiring a Senior Buyer to source fabrication and machining commodities for a growing North American operation. You'll work closely with suppliers and internal teams to keep complex, technically demanding projects moving on cost, quality, and schedule.

Senior Buyer Responsibilities

• Identify and select qualified vendors, and bring in new or alternative suppliers when the business needs them
• Review technical data, designs, prints, and manufacturing and quality requirements to build accurate purchasing specifications, working with internal teams to confirm delivery needs
• Evaluate the manufacturability and value of engineered components
• Source welded fabrications and machined parts
• Manage RFQs from early project stages through completion
• Purchase and manage assigned commodities to hit quality and cost targets within company policy
• Build supplier relationships that drive quality improvement and cost savings over time

Senior Buyer Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• 1 to 5 years of experience in purchasing or supply chain management
• Strong communication skills in English, written and verbal
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Manufacturing industry experience, SAP experience, and French language skills are all a plus

Senior Buyer Additional Details

• Compensation: $90k annually 
• Location: York, PA | Onsite | Direct Hire
• Some domestic and international travel required
• Direct exposure to complex, engineered manufacturing projects, with the chance to shape sourcing strategy for a specialized commodity group

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Job Summary: The Senior Buyer is responsible for purchasing, stocking, inventory management, and supplier relationships. Core responsibilities range from procurement tasks (e.g., generating purchase orders, supplier qualification) to contract negotiations (e.g., pricing agreements, terms ). This role reports to upper management ( VP and President) and advises them on the company's procurement needs.
Must Have:

• Manufacturing Purchasing/Procurement (Medical Devices)
• Prior Small Company Experience (50 Employees or less)
• Ability to read and interpret Technical Drawings and Bill of Materials
• Experience working with ERP systems, Preferred (Great Plains/Sage)
• Candidate must live within 45 mins of the facility, or is relocating at their expense

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Payables.

Key Responsibilities:
Purchase Order Management:

• Assign purchase orders to trained staff and review purchase orders generated by others.
• Generate purchase orders as needed and submit them for review.
• Perform or assign follow-ups to ensure purchase orders are accepted and fulfilled as specified.
• Take remedial actions with suppliers when necessary to ensure timely fulfillment of purchase orders.

Supplier Management:

• Manage backordered supplies to ensure staff can fulfill customer orders.
• Maintain supplier performance metrics, drive on-time delivery, and execute corrective actions as needed.
• Verify product quality in accordance with ISO standards.
• Take corrective action with suppliers to address non-conforming materials, contractual non-performance, or other compliance issues.
• Maintain and update the supplier scorecard.
• Prepare and conduct annual or ad-hoc supplier reviews.
• Negotiate pricing agreements for purchased materials.
• Identify and qualify new suppliers based on company requirements.
• Oversee the new vendor approval process.
• Conduct supplier site visits periodically to ensure compliance with quality agreements.
• Optimize supplier workload distribution to maintain timely product deliveries.

Inventory & Procurement Strategy:

• Work closely with Imaging management on costing projects and inventory strategy.
• Perform administrative tasks, including the filing of purchasing documents.
• Record and manage purchasing data in ERP and Salesforce software.
• Generate stocking reports and take necessary actions to maintain inventory levels.
• Collaborate with the Production Manager to streamline order workflows based on demand.
• Coordinate inventory counts with the production team and ensure accuracy in stock levels.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Perform other duties as required to support the procurement and supply chain functions.

Basic Qualifications: To succeed in this role, the candidate must meet the following requirements:
Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Logistics, or a related field.
• APICS certification or a related industry certification (preferred).

Experience & Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in a related procurement or supply chain role.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.
• Experience working with MRP systems.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, graphs, and VB automation.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints.

Soft Skills:

• Strong interdepartmental communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• High drive for organization and structure.
• Personally accountable for workload management.
• Ability to think systematically to solve problems and optimize workflows.

About the Company

Our client is an e-commerce retailer selling on Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Temu and other online marketplaces. We've been doing this since 2018, we represent more than 100 brands, and we're one of the largest online retailers in the health, household and grocery space. We run our own warehouse in New Jersey, which means we control fulfillment rather than renting it.

The business is three things. We buy direct from brands and their authorized distributors and resell across our marketplaces. We take select brands exclusive and run their entire Amazon presence, listings, pricing, advertising and enforcement. And we manage marketplace operations for a small number of outside brands.

We got here on sourcing. Not ad spend, not storefront design. This business grows when someone opens a door that wasn't open before and the numbers behind it hold up.

That's why this role exists. We've built a dominant position in health, household and grocery. We're hiring the person who does it again in the categories we're not in yet.

The role

This is not an order-processing job. You're not inheriting someone else's accounts and clicking restock. You find brands nobody here has talked to, get in the door, negotiate the wholesale terms, and close. Then you run what you built.

Because we also take brands exclusive and manage their entire Amazon presence, you walk into a brand conversation with more to offer than "we'd like to buy from your wholesale"

What you'd own

• Finding and opening new brands, distributors, and authorized suppliers
• The full cycle: outreach, negotiation, close
• Pricing, MOQs, payment terms, and exclusivity where it's available
• Vetting the numbers before we commit. Keepa, margin math, sell-through velocity
• Growing the relationships you bring in
• Trade shows

Where this goes

We're not trying to fill a buyer seat.

The first job is to build your own book. Brands and distributors you opened, that you own, that you run. Once that book is real, you stop being the only person working it. You hire buyers underneath you, you set how they source, and you're running an engine instead of a territory. From there, the path is owning the entire sourcing and buying side of the business.

The title and the money grow together, and that's deliberate.

The position grows. Senior Buyer, to leading a team, to owning the function. We'd rather promote the person who built the book than hire a manager to sit on top of them.

The compensation grows, and it keeps growing. Your earnings are tied to purchasing volume, not to a one-time bonus for signing a name. A brand you open this year is still buying next year, and the year after, and you're still paid on it. The book compounds, and your income compounds with it. There is no ceiling where that stops being true.

That's the whole design. We're not trying to buy your time. We're trying to back the thing you build.

Requirements

• At least a year in Amazon FBA wholesale, marketplace buying, or reselling
• You can read a product cold and tell us whether it makes money
• You can negotiate, and you're comfortable being the face of a company to a brand owner

This isn't for you if

• You've never sourced a brand yourself
• You want to process POs someone else landed
• You're coming from high-ticket. This is high-volume, thin-margin wholesale, where the wins come from throughput rather than ticket size. That's a real adjustment

Benefits

The compensation

$100,000 to $200,000 total, uncapped. The performance side is tied directly to the purchasing volume you build, and the ramp is set up so you're earning on top of base from month one.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Seven paid company holidays
• All trade show and vendor travel covered by the company