Position: Buyer/Purchasing 2
Location: Clayton, NC (100% Onsite)
Pay Rate: $21/hr
Duration: 24 Months
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare and manage purchase orders for machinery, equipment, tools, parts, and services.
- Issue RFQs (Requests for Quotation) to suppliers and analyze total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Evaluate suppliers based on cost, quality, delivery, service, and overall performance.
- Present sourcing analyses and recommendations to leadership.
- Partner with Engineering to review technical requirements and supplier capabilities.
- Monitor supplier performance and shipments to ensure on-time delivery.
- Resolve issues related to delayed or defective materials and services.
- Maintain purchasing, supplier, quality, and sourcing data, including purchase orders, quotations, invoices, and supplier metrics.
- Support implementation of sourcing strategies and continuous process improvements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve procurement, quality, and operational goals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of purchasing, procurement, sourcing, or supplier management experience.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience with supplier management and procurement processes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Ability to read engineering prints/drawings is preferred.
- Experience with data analysis and process improvement is a plus.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% within the U.S. and Mexico.
Company Description
At Swoon, we believe the future is built by great teams working on the technologies that keep the world running. That’s why we focus on more than just filling roles. We help companies build the right teams at the right time – teams that move big ideas forward.
Across the US and Canada, leading organizations trust us to leverage our expertise to help them build, secure, and scale the technologies that are shaping tomorrow. The result isn’t just successful hires. It’s a hiring journey that’s as rewarding as the outcome: teams that thrive, cultures that grow stronger, and results that exceed expectations.
Because at the end of the day, we exist to help companies and people achieve their boldest ambitions.