Part-Time Renewables Purchasing & Inventory Coordinator

About The Andersons, Inc.

As a North American leader in agribusiness and renewable fuels, The Andersons operates in a unique space, bringing together agriculture, energy, and global markets. From the farm to customers around the world, we help move food, feed, and fuel where it’s needed most. Our business spans the full value chain, which means the work we do directly supports farmers, customers, and communities every day.

Whether it’s helping producers succeed, delivering essential products, or advancing more sustainable energy solutions, our impact is both local and global. What truly sets us apart is how we work together. We are a performance-driven, people-powered organization where employees are owners, sharing in our success and helping shape our future. We invest in our team through development opportunities, meaningful career paths, and a culture that encourages growth, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

At the core of everything we do is our Statement of Principles. We are committed to providing extraordinary service to our customers, helping our employees improve, supporting our communities, and increasing the value of the company for our shareholders.

About The Andersons, Inc. The Andersons, Inc., is a North American agriculture company that conducts business in the agribusiness and renewables sectors. Guided by its Statement of Principles, The Andersons is committed to providing extraordinary service to its customers, helping its employees improve, supporting its communities, and increasing the value of the company. For more information, please visit

The Renewables Purchasing & Inventory Coordinator position oversees the purchasing of critical goods, equipment, supplies, and materials for a Renewables plant while managing purchase orders through resolution of invoicing, supplier quality, and returns-related issues. The role partners closely with vendors to ensure product availability, mitigate supply disruptions, and communicate solutions to internal stakeholders. It also identifies and implements opportunities to improve sourcing strategies, supplier performance, product quality, cost effectiveness, and delivery reliability.

Additionally, the position manages inventory processes and collaborates with procurement teams to optimize inventory levels, support working capital objectives, and provide training on purchasing systems and policies. The ideal candidate is a highly organized, analytical, and proactive professional with strong supplier relationship management skills, inventory expertise, and a continuous improvement mindset.

• Purchases complex/critical goods and materials
• Issues PO’s, manage and resolve issues regarding PO to invoice discrepancies, returns or quality problems with suppliers
• Work with vendors and suppliers to ensure availability of products; proactively find solutions, resources for supply shortages and communicate effectively to teams
• Responsible for exploring new products, materials, suppliers, and processes to achieve the best possible quality, reliability, prices, continuity, and delivery
• Establish procedures and maintains inventory levels
• Collaborate with other plant procurement departments to optimize inventory levels to manage working capital
• Plant resource to provide training and support to department personnel on company purchasing policies, procedures, and systems

Has developed specialized skills or is multi-skilled through job related training or considerable experience Completes work with limited degree of supervision Likely to act as an informal resource for colleagues with less experience Identifies key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions

• Collaborates
  - Builds partnerships and works cooperatively with others to achieve shared objectives
• Ensures Accountability
  - Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Being Resilient
  - Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations
• Customer Focus
  - Builds…