Buyer​/Planner

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Full Time Corona, CA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $75,000.00 To $90,000.00 Annually

About Us

Nexus Brands Group is the market leader in tattoo, pet grooming and beauty industries. We strive to support our professional customers who are fully committed to the lifestyle and sharing their craft to customers and enthusiasts across the globe. Nexus Brands Group represents a family of authentic brands and businesses that offer industry leading products, innovation, and service to help professionals share and perform their passion to the highest level possible.

Position Overview

The Buyer/Planner is responsible for maintaining a reliable and cost-effective supply of finished goods, raw materials, components, and other assigned items while supporting the execution of manufacturing operations. This role develops and maintains production schedules based on demand forecasts, inventory targets, material availability, production capacity, and customer requirements to ensure on-time delivery and efficient utilization of manufacturing resources. The Buyer/Planner converts demand, inventory, production, and product launch requirements into actionable production and purchasing plans and is responsible for executing the procurement process, including creating purchase orders, managing supplier commitments, monitoring deliveries, and resolving supply issues.

Working closely with Production, Demand Planning, Product Development, Sales, and suppliers, this position proactively identifies and resolves material, capacity, and scheduling constraints while balancing service levels, inventory investment, lead times, and cost. The role maintains accurate ERP data, monitors inventory health, manages supplier performance, and drives continuous improvement initiatives across purchasing, inventory management, and manufacturing planning.

This role is an Exempt role and pays $75,000-$90,000 depending on experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Monitor demand, inventory levels, open orders, lead times, safety stock, and inventory turns to identify purchasing requirements and prevent stockouts or excess inventory.
• Review purchase requisitions and planning recommendations; create and manage purchase orders through the approval process.
• Analyze proposed orders using forecasts, historical demand, current inventory, open supply, minimum order quantities, production cycles, and service-level requirements.
• Work with Demand Planning, Sales, Production, Product Development, Warehouse, Logistics, and Accounting to maintain rolling forecasts and align purchasing and production plans with business priorities.
• Determine material requirements for production schedules, product launches, product transitions, and discontinuations, ensuring timely material availability to support manufacturing operations.
• Follow up with suppliers on confirmations, delivery dates, shortages, late orders, quality concerns, and corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain professional supplier relationships; negotiate pricing, lead times, delivery terms, minimums, discounts, and other commercial terms within assigned authority.
• Monitor supplier performance for quality, cost, service, and on-time delivery, and support supplier reviews and sourcing initiatives.
• Identify and execute cost-saving initiatives across the supply chain through supplier negotiations, sourcing opportunities, order quantity optimization, freight improvements, inventory reduction strategies, process efficiencies, and continuous evaluation of total delivered cost.
• Maintain accurate items, vendor,…