Senior Buyer​/Planner​/Commodity Specialist

Job Title: Senior Buyer / Planner / Commodity Specialist

LANTANA LED, Inc.

LANTANA LED is a San Francisco-based lighting design and manufacturing company focused on creating innovative, high-quality solutions for niche markets. We specialize in data center lighting, with over 35 million square feet under illumination throughout the United States. We design our products in-house and partner with trusted manufacturers to bring them to life. As we scale into a greenfield manufacturing operation, we are building the supply chain infrastructure from the ground up — and this role is central to that mission.

The Sr. Buyer / Planner / Commodity Specialist is a hybrid, high-ownership role that spans the full supply chain lifecycle at LANTANA LED. This individual owns three interconnected functions: strategic commodity management and sourcing, factory planning and production scheduling, and day-to-day procurement execution. As LANTANA implements Odoo as its ERP platform and builds its manufacturing operation, this role is critical to standing up planning, purchasing, and commodity workflows from the ground up.

This is a role for someone who is equally comfortable negotiating supplier contracts as they are running MRP, releasing work orders, and managing inventory. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, own your data, build your processes, and be a key contributor to the operational foundation of a scaling manufacturer.

• Develop and own commodity strategies for key spend categories — LED drivers, optics, mechanical components, PCBs, and indirect materials — aligned with cost, quality, lead time, and risk objectives.
• Identify, qualify, and onboard suppliers; maintain an approved vendor list with performance metrics and risk assessments.
• Lead RFQ/RFP processes; analyze bids, negotiate pricing, payment terms, lead times, and service agreements with suppliers.
• Monitor commodity market conditions — pricing trends, supply constraints, tariff exposure — and proactively communicate risk and mitigation options to leadership.
• Establish and manage long‑term supplier agreements, blanket POs, and consignment arrangements where appropriate.
• Drive total cost of ownership analysis across key commodities; identify and execute cost reduction and dual‑source opportunities.
• Track supplier performance against KPIs (on‑time delivery, quality, lead time, responsiveness); conduct periodic supplier business reviews.

• Create, issue, and manage Purchase Orders in Odoo for direct materials, components, and production supplies; ensure accuracy in quantities, pricing, lead times, and delivery dates.
• Monitor open POs from issuance through receipt; follow up with suppliers on confirmations, ship dates, and discrepancies.
• Maintain and update PO records as changes occur — quantity adjustments, delivery reschedules, partial receipts, and cancellations — keeping Odoo current at all times.
• Match PO receipts to supplier invoices; flag and resolve variances in coordination with Finance.
• Maintain supplier lead time, MOQ, and pricing data within Odoo to ensure planning parameters reflect current agreements.
• Support import purchasing activities including international lead time management, freight coordination, and customs documentation.

• Create and release Work Orders in Odoo based on the master production schedule; ensure WOs are accurate in quantity, routing, BOM linkage, and scheduled dates before release to the floor.
• Maintain WOs throughout the production cycle — updating status, adjusting quantities for yield or scrap, recording completions, and closing orders promptly upon final inspection.
• Monitor WO status daily; identify and elevate open orders at risk of missing schedule due to material shortages, capacity constraints, or quality holds.
• Coordinate component availability prior to WO release; confirm material is allocated or on hand before committing production to the schedule.
• Reconcile WO actuals (labor, materials consumed) against standards; flag…