Industrial Buyer

Overview

Job Summary:

Consider joining the Metal Exchange family as an Industrial Buyer for our Moulton, AL location. We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Industrial Buyer to support outreach and relationship-building efforts with industrial partners, manufacturers, and suppliers to secure scrap metal for our facility. This role blends procurement expertise with sales acumen—you're not just buying scrap; you're selling our service as the preferred buyer.

This is a remote opportunity with required travel to customers and potential customers. Travel to our facility in Moulton, Alabama is also required. Candidates should live in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, or Tennessee.

A successful Industrial Buyer will be personable and capable of soliciting, developing and growing relationships with our suppliers. The Buyer will also possess analytical skills to make decisions that are good for the company and our suppliers. The Buyer should have negotiating skills that combine the characteristics of a good relationship. This will ensure a professional and well-developed strategy, a sense of fairness and a good understanding of our needs.

Essential Duties of the Role:

• Assists in maintaining current industrial supplier relationships and pursues new business by visiting and calling manufacturers, fabricators, and industrial operations.
• Maintains up-to-date business contacts and favorable relations with current customers (scrap dealers, peddlers, and other suppliers) by regularly keeping in contact to assure meeting plant requirements for ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal.
• Builds and maintains long-term partnerships with suppliers to ensure consistent aluminum scrap flow.
• Travels to current and prospective suppliers at their facilities. Performs inspection of materials to ensure quality.
• Attends viewings of ferrous and non-ferrous metal bids and auctions.
• Stays up to date on information pertaining to buying/selling prices and trends in local and regional markets.
• Promotes our company’s purchasing capabilities, logistics support, and competitive pricing to prospective sellers.
• Partners with internal team economical transportation of materials to the plant, ensures efficient handling of materials (maintains strong communication and working relationship with transportation department and operations).
• Partners with the Operations Department concerning accurate grading based on quality of scrap metal delivered to the plant.
• Communicates with scale operations to accurately input purchases across the scale.
• Enters and updates internal software system, ensuring that supplier information and purchase contracts are entered into the system in a timely and accurate manner.
• Provides customer service by efficiently and economically resolving quality claims and/or other discrepancies between MX Holdings and the suppliers.
• Attends industry events to keep up with current market trends. Creates a cadence for contacting customers to maintain and develop those relationships.
• Industrial Buyers may be assigned to special projects or may be required to perform other duties not listed above, which may vary from time to time as determined by management, to meet company needs.

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

Education

• High School Diploma or the equivalent.
• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.

Experience

• 1 year of Industrial Buying or Selling experience or 2 years of buying or selling in any environment.
• Waste industry account representatives will also be considered.

Other required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a persuasive, consultative approach.
• Ability to work with others and be part of a high performing team.
• Demonstrates resilience and professionalism when facing rejection or pushback; capable of handling objections and navigating setbacks with composure and persistence.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Ability to travel 35% of the time.
• Strong negotiation skills with a focus on achieving mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Good business sense and uses good judgement when representing Metal Exchange.
• Proactive and able to make…