Buyer, Business

Introduction

Are you the type of person who plans 5 steps ahead—who can juggle multiple tasks and solve problems before others even see them? Find a career where your skills are in demand.

What We Do: We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do.

We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.

Who We Are: Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.

Why You Should Join Us: You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional well‑being.

To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.

Working under minimal supervision of the Supervisor, Manager, Sr. Manager, Director, or Sr Director, Purchasing, referring only exceptional problems for management review or approval, the Buyer facilitates and processes purchasing transactions. Buyers work closely with Sales to manage customer orders and coordinate rollouts while negotiating with various suppliers for the most favorable terms and conditions (i.e., quality, inventory and delivery). Utilizing independent judgment and discretion, the Buyer authorizes purchase order placement with the approved supplier.

The Buyer ensures the purchase orders are placed in conformance with purchasing policies and procedures and acquires products and services from OEM manufacturers or OEM authorized Distribution partners. Utilizing the internal case management tool, the Buyer resolves issues with and maintains compliance with customer‑specific contract requirements throughout the lifecycle of the purchase order. The Buyer creates and maintains product SKUs.

The Buyer works with internal contracts and legal teams to onboard new vendors and serves as a subject matter expert on assigned departmental projects.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

• Utilizes best practices when purchasing goods and services to optimize the overall cost of goods by driving cost out of the order fulfillment process. Procures product at aggressive pricing through multiple sources by reviewing orders, determining contract requirements and special instructions and selecting the best supplier with the most favorable terms considering cost, delivery, holding inventory, and integration.
• Creates SKUs for sales order processing, taking into consideration vendor and customer contract supply chain requirements. Determines the best method to fulfill the orders by stocking, drop shipping, or hybrid of both.
• Prepares bids; selects bid list for proposals in compliance with contracts and purchasing specifications. Analyzes bids to determine overall cost of goods sold.
• Prepares purchase orders by auditing sales orders in accordance with state local, educational and federal regulations. Places purchase orders in accordance with company policy.
• Manages daily backorder and backlog by tracking virtual and/or drop ship inventory to support sales activity. Expedites Purchase Orders by working with both suppliers and…