Senior Buyer

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Position:Senior Buyer

Location: Burnaby, British Columbia

Job :2303

# of Openings:0

Ballard’s Supply Chain Group has an immediate opening for a Senior Buyer.

This role serves as the primary commercial interface between Ballard and a portfolio of strategic global suppliers across complex and multi-category commodities. The position ensures reliable supply, optimized inventory, and competitive total cost structures across multiple manufacturing facilities and product lines.

You will be accountable for on-time delivery (OTD) of critical and technically complex materials while balancing supply risk, inventory turns, working capital, and total cost of ownership.

This role plays a key part in supporting both new product development and ongoing production of hydrogen fuel cell engines, working cross‑functionally with Planning, Quality, Engineering, Finance,…