Part-time Buyer (Contractor)

About the role

Part-time Buyer Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We're a fast-growing, global company building the world's best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

Responsibilities

• Issue purchase orders to procure high quality goods and services in the most cost effective manner for on time delivery.
• Review purchase orders for accuracy and completeness and obtain proper approvals as needed
• Proactively monitor vendor order confirmations, ship dates, and tracking information.
• Coordinate with suppliers regarding order revisions, damage claims, rejections, and losses, return of materials, over-shipment, cancellations, and specification changes
• Ensure that the vendor pricing is in alignment with the terms and conditions defined in the MSA while ensuring the best quality, delivery schedule, and freight costs.
• Coordinate with internal sales/customer service to ensure delivery schedules meet customer commitments.
• Familiarize with basic product specifications related to purchasing orders.
• Interact regularly with the Warehouse department to resolve discrepancies between purchase orders and incoming shipments.
• Work with Accounting on discrepancies between POs and vendor invoices.
• Solve order-related problems and communicate with Purchasing lead on a timely basis.
• Other tasks as assigned by the Purchasing lead.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience in a purchasing related field; 5 years preferred
• Demonstrates effective communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office/Google Suite
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking, the ability to self-manage

Skills

• Experience with purchasing electronic mechanical parts preferred
• Experience with Netsuite or other purchasing/ERP systems preferred

Pay

The hourly range estimate for this position depending on level of experience is $43-$48 USD