Procurement Buyer

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LiftOne invests in people, facilities and innovative technology as part of the essential role we play in supporting our country’s supply chain and enabling critical goods to be delivered to homes and businesses. We’re a privately held company, and pair our scale with a strong foundation in our culture and values. This combination gives us a competitive advantage in the market and helps make us a trailblazing organization that is built to last.

We’re looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential. We offer great benefits, competitive salaries and opportunities for advancement to all our employees.

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Summary

As a Procurement Buyer for LiftOne, you will report into the newly developed Supply Chain Management team at LiftOne. You will help to deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and efficient on-time procurement of goods and services through effective order execution and the end-to-end performance management of the delivery of purchased goods and services. ? You’ll also be a partner to key business leaders and other internal stakeholders to understand current state requirements, help to identify and mitigate any supply-based pain points, and achieve excellence through key performance indicators that will help to promote the future state of the department. You will help to support new Supply Chain department initiatives to drive customer and employee satisfaction. 

The Procurement Buyer is a dual-function role responsible for both tactical purchasing execution as well as incorporating strategic sourcing and category support within LiftOne’s growing Supply Chain team. This position will manage purchase orders (POs), vendor communications, operational requirements, and day-to-day procurement workflows, while also aiming to contribute to cost savings initiatives, category development, and supplier performance improvement. This role is ideal for a procurement professional who can shift seamlessly between the details of PO accuracy and the bigger picture of vendor strategy and category optimization.

Essential Functions

Tactical Procurement & Operational Execution:

• Manage full lifecycle of assigned categorical purchase orders. Execute Purchase Orders, process purchase requisitions, conduct marketplace RFx, maintain proficient lead times, achieve on-time delivery levels, and manage expedites, escalations, and exceptions of any assigned LiftOne vendors/category goods and services.
• Monitor and maintain data accuracy across POs including pricing, lead times, delivery dates, part numbers, and supplier information.
• Expedite urgent and delayed orders; escalate issues to internal stakeholders and resolve delivery or quality discrepancies.
• Support P2P and invoice reconciliation by addressing PO mismatches, pricing variances, and receipts in coordination with the Accounts Payable team.
• Process vendor returns and coordinate credit resolutions.
• Maintain documentation and audit trail for all vendor communications.
• Ensure purchasing compliance with LiftOne policies and SOPs.

Strategic Category & Supplier Management:

• Support assigned category strategies with vendor analysis, spend tracking, and contract data management.
• Manage overall efficiency of procurement performance metrics of assigned LiftOne vendors/categories.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to execute sourcing strategies including RFx processes and vendor evaluations.
• Assist in vendor reviews; monitor KPI data that supports vendor scorecards and action plans.
• Identify opportunities to improve vendor performance, lead times, and pricing.
• Build strong relationships with vendors to foster accountability and responsive support.

Process Improvement & Analytics:

• Support procurement reporting and dashboards for spend, compliance, and performance.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings to improve upstream and downstream supply processes.
• Monitor market price levels, identify and negotiate annualized cost savings opportunities. 
• Responsible for executing/supporting performance data analytics and relevant KPIs.? 
• Participate in vendor performance reviews. 
• Support A/P department with invoicing issues. 
• Other departmentally professional duties as assigned as the department grows.? 

Other duties as assigned. 

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• 3-5 years of professional procurement buying experience in a related field or an accredited degree in Supply Chain Management. 
• ERP experience preferred; SAP S4/Hana a plus. 
• Strong problem solving and communication skills. 
• Collaborative work environment mindset. 
• Strong analytic capabilities. 
• Ability to work under pressure effectively and professionally, in a team-oriented environment, with frequent changes in deadlines and priorities. 
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.?

Workplace Requirements

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Employee must operate equipment in a safe manner.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We’re committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

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