Buyer

About the Role

Salamander Solutions, Inc. is seeking an experienced Buyer to join our growing business. The Sr. Buyer is accountable for delivering end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay services for direct/indirect materials categories and services in a manufacturing and operations environment. This role offers high visibility and impact, providing an opportunity to expand your knowledge of procurement and supply chain management while applying it in a dynamic environment with a diverse set of stakeholders. This position requires on-site presence.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end Procurement, including PO execution and management, expediting, Invoice remediation, and PO close-out.
• Coordinate purchasing demand and delivery priority in close collaboration with business partners, ensuring alignment with group best practices.
• Monitor status of open purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery of all materials, including timely resolution, communication, and mitigation of potential issues.
• Expedite or defer orders as required based on schedule requirements.
• Coordinate vendor on-boarding process to ensure all documentation is provided and entered for set-up in MRP and accounting systems, keeping stakeholders updated on progress.
• Setup and maintain vendor catalogues enabling low-touch fast-track PO placement for commodity products.
• Compliance with delegation of authorities and signing authorities as defined for Salamander.
• Facilitate and manage Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA’s) with suppliers and service providers with support from Legal.
• Ensure conformance with project and department cost codes and financial requirements.
• Accountable for tracking delivery ETAs, ensuring goods receipt in the system, and following through with PO close-out upon invoice payment.
• Collaborate with Engineering to create item numbers/descriptions for ERP and build high-level bill of materials for each project.
• Coordinate and support direct negotiations with shortlisted suppliers.
• Collaborate with Finance and Legal teams to ensure resulting contracts capture commercial intent while minimizing risk exposure through use of proper terms and conditions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or logistics. Advanced degree is a bonus.

Skills

• Experience in Procurement, purchasing across the complete Procure-to-Pay cycle.
• Demonstrated experience in industry-standard Procure-to-Pay systems such as Ariba, Coupa, D365, or Medius.
• Demonstrated understanding of delegation of authorities and signing authorities.
• Procurement experience across multiple categories including Raw Materials, MRO, Fabrication, Electrical, and Engineered equipment.
• Ability to work proficiently across global teams and multiple jurisdictions is highly desirable.
• Strong stakeholder communication, influencing, and written skills with attention to detail.
• High-level problem-solving, coordinating, organizational, and time management skills.
• Effectively able to maintain discretion and confidentiality of company, customer, and vendor information as appropriate.
• 2-4+ years of related procurement experience, preferably supporting manufacturing and operations in Oil and Gas.
• English language proficiency.

Additional Qualifications

• Supply chain or purchasing certification (ISM or equivalent) is a bonus.
• Experience with ERP Procurement (Dynamics 365 a huge plus).