Senior Buyer & Category Manager

Company Overview

Powerflex Supply is growing businesses serving livestock producers, fencing professionals, ranchers, and rotational grazing customers across North America. Powerflex is an e‑commerce and distribution company offering fencing, grazing, livestock‑management, and agricultural products. Our success depends on having the right products available, maintaining competitive value, and managing inventory with discipline.

Powerflex is seeking a hands‑on Senior Buyer & Category Manager to take ownership of the products we sell and the inventory required to support growth. This is not a traditional corporate procurement role. We need a commercially minded buyer who understands retail, distribution, and e‑commerce. This person will manage product categories from supplier selection and purchasing through inventory, pricing, promotion, and final sale.

The role requires balancing customer demand, product availability, supplier lead times, margins, freight costs, and inventory investment. You will work directly with the CEO, CFO/COO, Operations, Sales, and Manufacturing teams.

• Manage assigned categories with accountability for sales, margin, inventory, availability, and growth
• Evaluate product performance and recommend additions, replacements, or discontinuations
• Identify new products, brands, suppliers, and category opportunities
• Build assortments, bundles, and complete‑system solutions that meet customer needs
• Partner with Sales and Marketing on seasonal plans, promotions, and product launches

• Forecast demand using sales history, seasonality, marketing plans, and supplier lead times
• Establish reorder points, safety‑stock levels, and purchasing schedules
• Manage purchase orders, inbound inventory, and product availability
• Identify stockout risks early and develop corrective plans
• Improve inventory turns while reducing excess, aging, and obsolete inventory
• Coordinate product arrivals with marketing and promotional activity

• Develop strong supplier relationships and conduct regular performance reviews
• Negotiate product costs, payment terms, freight, lead times, minimum orders, rebates, and promotional support
• Resolve supplier, shipment, quality, pricing, and availability issues
• Identify alternate sourcing options to reduce risk and improve service
• Hold suppliers accountable for delivery, quality, and agreed‑upon terms

• Monitor product costs, landed costs, freight, retail pricing, and gross margins
• Recommend pricing that balances customer value, competitiveness, and profitability
• Identify margin opportunities through negotiations, freight improvements, product mix, and pricing actions
• Work with Finance to ensure accurate costing and margin reporting

• Partner with Marketing to ensure products are accurately and effectively presented online
• Help organize products into clear categories, collections, bundles, and complementary items
• Support product content, specifications, compatibility information, and launch readiness
• Monitor online product performance, availability, conversion, and sales velocity
• Ensure marketing efforts are aligned with inventory that is available to sell

• Work closely with the CEO, CFO/COO, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Manufacturing
• Provide regular reporting on inventory, purchase orders, supplier issues, category performance, and risks
• Support Sales and Customer Service with substitutions, availability, and product knowledge
• Help build practical purchasing and inventory processes for a growing business
• Take ownership of problems and drive them to resolution

• Category sales and gross margin
• In‑stock rate and stockout reduction
• Inventory turns and days on hand
• Excess and obsolete inventory
• Forecast accuracy
• Supplier on‑time delivery
• Product cost and landed‑cost improvement
• New‑product performance
• Working‑capital efficiency

• 5+ years of experience in buying, category…