Purchasing Specialist

Overview

At Coco, we’re dedicated to perfecting the last‑mile delivery experience. We strongly believe the delivery service industry in its current state is massively under‑serving merchants, and we are committed to creating a frictionless, reliable, consistent, and sustainable delivery experience for merchants and their customers in cities everywhere.

As a Purchasing Specialist, you’ll own the day‑to‑day procurement of the components, spare parts, and consumables that keep Coco’s robot fleet running. You’ll manage purchase orders from request to receipt, build productive relationships with domestic and international suppliers, and partner closely with our repair technicians, fleet quality, and engineering teams to make sure parts availability never becomes the reason a robot sits idle.

You’ll also help us buy smarter—tracking pricing and lead times, consolidating orders, qualifying alternate suppliers, and flagging opportunities to reduce cost without sacrificing quality or uptime.

• Create, issue, and track purchase orders for maintenance and repair components across our robot fleet.
• Manage open order books with suppliers: confirm pricing and lead times, expedite critical shortages, and resolve discrepancies in quantity, quality, or invoicing.
• Monitor spare parts inventory levels across our markets and trigger replenishment before shortages impact repair throughput.
• Source and qualify new and alternate suppliers for components, working with engineering to validate fit, form, and function.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, and order quantities with vendors to reduce per‑unit costs and improve cash efficiency.
• Coordinate inbound logistics for domestic and international shipments, including freight, customs documentation, and receiving.
• Maintain clean, accurate procurement records—part numbers, approved suppliers, price history, and lead times—so the data tells the story.
• Partner with repair technicians, fleet quality, and hardware engineering to forecast demand from failure trends and upcoming fleet changes.

• 2–4 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, supply chain, or inventory management—ideally for hardware, electronics, automotive, or another physical product.
• Working knowledge of the purchase order lifecycle: requisition, PO issuance, order confirmation, receiving, and invoice reconciliation.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail—you keep many orders moving at once without dropping any.
• Comfort with spreadsheets and data: you can build a tracker, analyze price history, and spot a trend in lead times.
• Clear, proactive communication with both internal teams and external vendors.
• A bias toward action and ownership—when a part is at risk, you chase it down.

• Experience purchasing electromechanical components (PCBAs, batteries, motors, sensors, cables, injection‑molded plastics).
• Experience working with overseas suppliers and contract manufacturers, including international freight and customs.
• Familiarity with ERP, MRP, or inventory management systems.
• Exposure to MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) purchasing or fleet‑based operations.
• Experience supporting hardware engineering teams through product changes (ECOs, component transitions, end‑of‑life parts).
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