Buyer/Purchasing Supervisor
Location: Charlotte, NC
Pay Rate: Starting at $24/hour
Link to apply: https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=133…
Mission-Driven Career Opportunity
One of the leading affordable housing nonprofits in the area, Habitat Charlotte Region partners with hundreds of families each year through affordable homeownership, home preservation and financial literacy training. As a Buyer & Purchasing Supervisor, you’ll play an integral role in our vision of a world where everyone has a safe and affordable place to live.
Why Join Habitat?
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Industry-leading healthcare, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts (healthcare and dependent care)
- Work/life balance supported by generous PTO
- Career development and promotion opportunities
- Casual working environment
- Retirement planning a 403(b) with 3% organizational match
Position Purpose
The position is responsible for all aspects of buying and purchasing products to include negotiating cost with vendors and suppliers, seeking new product opportunities, and maintaining existing business accounts, and working closely with ReStore managers to ensure compliance of adequate inventory measures and controls.
Essential Functions
- Sourcing equipment, goods and services and managing vendors/donors.
- Perform strategic procurement activities across multiple categories of spend, search for better deals and find more profitable suppliers
- Cycle Count Training for all members of management
- Create inventory counts for ReStores and manage compliance. Train and implement techniques as needed to control measures.
- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
- Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms including purchasing
- Assess, manage and mitigate risks
- Seek and partner with reliable vendors, suppliers, and donors.
- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries, and coordinate with ReStore staff
- Monitor ReStores stock levels and forecast upcoming levels of demand
- Comparison shop the competition to determine price points and products demand
- Monitor product demands and eliminate non-productive inventory
- Assist in maintaining a safe and clean environment for customers, employees and volunteers
- Assist in ensuring that each customer receives outstanding customer service
- Regular and reliable job attendance
- Adhere to schedule
- Maintain a presentable appearance, including ReStore appropriate attire
- Ability to adhere to Habitats Code of Conduct policies and other policies
- Dependable transportation to work
- Key and Alarm code holder
- Habitat Charlotte related tasks as requested by supervisor
Qualifications
- BS Degree in supply chain management, logistics, or business administration preferred
- Valid drivers license and dependable transportation
- Proven working experience as a purchasing coordinator or manager
Skills and Abilities
- Vendor/Supplier negotiating skills
- Ability to read, count, and accurately complete reports and all end of day documentation
- Ability to gather and analyze data and to work with figures
- Solid judgment along with decision making skills
- Strong leadership capabilities
- Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management
- Interest in market dynamics along with business sense
Behaviors
- Be an effective team member when working with staff and volunteers, ensuring the engagement and motivation of others
- Demonstrate a positive and respectful attitude when interacting with employees, customers, donors, volunteers and the public
- Ensure a meaningful volunteer experience
- Represent Habitat in a positive, professional manner to all donors, customers and others you come into contact with
Work Environment
- This position requires working in a variety of conditions, including retail stores, warehouse/dock, and driving between locations.
Physical Demands
- Ability to stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to move merchandise throughout the store, 50-60 lbs with assistance
- Ability to read, count, and write to accurately complete all documentation
- Ability to work flexible schedule, some nights and weekends
- Ability to be Forklift Certified
Estimated Time Commitment: 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday schedule.
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About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.
At Habitat for Humanity International, we embrace a history rooted in creating equity and take our mission seriously by courageously committing to a culture and workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued. As an equal opportunity employer, we realize that our success depends upon building an inclusive workforce of diverse perspectives and encourage people of varied races (which is inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, protective hairstyles and hair texture), ethnicities, national origins, tribes, religions, ages, gender identities and expressions, genders, sexual orientations, marital statuses, disabilities, veteran/reserve national guard statuses, socio-economic statuses, thinking and communication styles to work with us.
We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children), and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.