Product Acquisition Specialist

Brief Description

The Product Acquisition Specialist is responsible for coordinating and executing product acquisition activities from requisition through receipt, ensuring timely, accurate, compliant, and cost-effective procurement in support of business, supply chain, manufacturing, and customer requirements. This role serves as a liaison among key suppliers, internal stakeholders, logistics partners, and cross-functional teams, providing subject matter expertise in supplier coordination, inbound logistics, acquisition processes, order visibility, and issue resolution.

Must be a U.S. citizen or legally authorized to live and work in the United States.

• Coordinates complex, critical, and high-value purchase orders across multiple supplier partners while ensuring purchase requirements are clearly defined, accurately documented, compliant, and completed within required timelines.
• Partner with key suppliers, Global Logistics, Trade Compliance, internal stakeholders, planning teams, customer-facing teams, and other cross-functional partners to support product availability, order visibility, delivery lead times, manufacturing order visibility, shipment routing, delivery performance, and customer commitments.
• Monitor open purchase orders, supplier acknowledgments, lead times, shipment status, inbound activity, receipt activity, and product acquisition backlogs; proactively identify risks, delays, shortages, discrepancies, expected receipt date changes, dock date changes, and required follow-up actions needed for resolution.
• Maintain accurate acquisition, supplier, order, logistics, reporting, and documentation information in applicable systems, including ERP/MRP systems, trackers, dashboards, reports, and documentation repositories.
• Support sourcing, supplier communication, quote follow-up, pricing validation, and documentation collection to enable timely purchasing decisions and compliant transaction processing.
• Research and resolve acquisition-related issues, including order discrepancies, supplier delays, receipt concerns, documentation gaps, system or tracker inaccuracies, and internal escalation items.
• Provide timely status updates, reporting, and clear communication to leaders and stakeholders regarding order progress, supplier performance, dock date updates, shipment status, supply risks, mitigation plans, action items, customer commitments, revenue planning, and operational impacts.
• Partner with internal functions to support accurate reconciliation of purchase orders, invoices, receipts, and related acquisition records.

• High school diploma or equivalent required; degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, Logistics, or a related field preferred.
• Five or more years of related experience in procurement, supply chain, sales order administration, logistics, or related operational roles preferred; semiconductor industry experience strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of purchase order processes, supplier follow-up, lead time management, order tracking, inbound logistics, receiving activity, documentation requirements, discrepancy resolution, and backlog management.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple open orders, supplier actions, documentation requests, deadlines, and stakeholder commitments simultaneously.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, concise status updates and collaborate with suppliers, internal business partners, logistics providers, Global Logistics, Trade Compliance, Finance, planning teams, customer-facing teams, and leadership without direct authority.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, follow-through, accountability, and problem-solving skills in maintaining and interpreting acquisition, order, supplier, logistics, backlog, shipment, receipt, reporting, and documentation information.
• Experience using ERP/MRP systems, PDM systems, Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, reporting tools, dashboards, trackers, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, workflow automation, AI-enabled tools, or similar business systems preferred.
• Understanding of semiconductor product dynamics preferred, including supplier availability, lead time variability, product lifecycle considerations, and customer demand impacts.
• Ability to handle sensitive, supplier, customer, or controlled information in accordance with company policies and applicable regulations.

At Rochester Electronics, we create an excellent employee experience focused on value, performance, motivation, recognition, and career growth. Many companies say their employees are their most important asset. At Rochester Electronics, we mean it!

• Outstanding low-cost medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage;
  Rochester pays 92% of the premiums on behalf of its full-time employees
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick, and holiday
• Generous match 401K program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible spending account

And so much more!

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