Associate, Procurement & Warehouse Mgmt

Build the function, do not just maintain it.

Planet Networks is seeking an analytical, hands‑on Associate to help build and scale our procurement operating model while strengthening how inventory, equipment, materials, and fixed assets are managed across New Jersey and Virginia. This is not simply a transactional purchasing or warehouse role. You will help turn evolving processes into scalable ways of working supported by practical controls, reliable data, meaningful KPIs, and thoughtful use of technology.

We are intentionally open to exceptional recent graduates and early‑career professionals. You do not need to arrive as a procurement or warehouse expert. We care most about strong analytical ability, structured problem solving, ownership, learning agility, sound judgment, and the willingness to work both strategically and hands‑on.

Build the procurement operating model

• Help standardize the full purchasing lifecycle, including request intake, approvals, sourcing, purchase orders, receiving, invoice exceptions, and supplier performance.
• Support competitive bids, supplier comparisons, commercial analysis, and sourcing recommendations across construction materials, network equipment, customer equipment, fleet, technology, professional services, facilities, and administrative spend.
• Participate in supplier discussions and negotiations under the guidance of the Vice President of Finance & Procurement, and help improve pricing, payment terms, sourcing discipline, spend visibility, and continuity of supply.
• Help build approved‑vendor, preferred‑supplier, alternate‑source, contract‑renewal, and supplier‑performance processes.

• Draft procurement policies, SOPs, work instructions, approval matrices, and exception procedures.
• Help design usable controls across requesting, approving, purchasing, receiving, invoice processing, and payment, including appropriate segregation of duties and compensating controls.
• Monitor off‑process purchasing, recurring exceptions, pricing discrepancies, and other breakdowns, then help address root causes.
• Partner with Accounting to support accurate classification, capitalization, accruals, cutoff, inventory, and fixed‑asset reporting.

• Help standardize receiving, tagging, storage, issuance, vehicle stocking, transfers, returns, repairs, retirement, and disposal across New Jersey and Virginia.
• Improve chain‑of‑custody and record accuracy for fixed assets, construction materials, customer equipment, tools, spare parts, fleet and field‑service equipment, and other company property.
• Help build risk‑based cycle‑count and physical‑inventory processes, investigate variances, and reconcile records to supporting documentation and financial records.
• Analyze usage, lead times, field requirements, and construction schedules to improve material availability while avoiding unnecessary working‑capital investment.

• Support Net Suite workflows for requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, receiving, supplier records, inventory, fixed assets, and reporting.
• Explore practical automation such as barcode scanning, mobile receiving, asset tags, serial‑number tracking, warehouse‑location tracking, vehicle inventory tools, and electronic approvals.
• Build or support recurring analysis and dashboards using Excel, Net Suite, Power BI, and other approved tools.
• Help establish actionable KPIs and use data, process mapping, observation, and stakeholder feedback to improve cost, service, controls, inventory accuracy, and operational execution.

• Procurement requests, approvals, sourcing, purchasing, and receiving become more standardized, visible, and controlled.
• Supplier decisions consistently balance cost, quality, lead time, reliability, working capital, and operational continuity.
• Warehouse and fixed‑asset records become reliable enough to support operational planning and financial reporting.
• Stockouts, missing assets, receiving issues, unlogged movements, and recurring exceptions decline.
• You progressively grow from an analytical contributor…