Buyer III

Position Summary / Job Purpose

The incumbent is responsible for sourcing, analyzing and negotiating goods and services for an area in which they specialize such as food, beverage, technical, IT, etc. They require comprehensive knowledge of specialized commodities in order to influence customers and suppliers in procurement decisions of complex/critical goods and services.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Research suppliers from a variety of usual and unusual sources.
• Develop a procurement and negotiation strategy based on few variables.
• Perform moderately complex price analysis based on few variables and confer with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Negotiate price, availability, and work with Logistics to define transportation and delivery schedule (i.e., ordering and storing schedule).
• Manage supplier performance to ensure consisten...