Buyer

Job Title: Buyer

Job Description

The Buyer will play a key role in improving purchase order processing, reducing past due and unconfirmed lines, and strengthening vendor communication within a dynamic supply chain team. This role focuses on ensuring data accuracy and real-time visibility in the ERP system, providing immediate support on past due orders, supplier follow-ups, and purchase order execution. The Buyer will help reduce backlog, lower expedite costs, and minimize production risk while contributing directly to meaningful work that impacts production and customer delivery.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase orders quickly and accurately, including placing, releasing, and maintaining orders within the ERP system.
• Monitor, manage, and resolve past due and unconfirmed purchase order lines to improve on-time delivery and supplier performance.
• Communicate proactively with suppliers, responding to vendor inquiries and coordinating delivery commitments and order status updates.
• Provide immediate support on past due orders by following up with suppliers and internal teams to drive resolution.
• Maintain high data accuracy and real-time visibility in the ERP system to support supply chain planning and decision-making.
• Help reduce backlog and improve visibility into open orders, risks, and constraints across the supply chain.
• Work to reduce expedite costs and mitigate production risks by anticipating issues and taking corrective actions with suppliers.
• Support supplier onboarding, setup, and compliance documentation to ensure vendors meet operational and quality requirements.
• Collaborate closely with internal cross-functional teams, including planning and operations, to align purchasing activities with production needs.
• Operate effectively in a high-volume, fast-paced procurement environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
• Contribute to supply chain performance improvement initiatives, including KPI recovery and process optimization efforts.
• Multitask across multiple suppliers, commodities, and purchase orders while maintaining attention to detail and responsiveness.

Essential Skills

• Minimum of 3 years of purchasing experience in a mid-level buyer capacity.
• Hands-on experience placing, releasing, and maintaining purchase orders in an ERP system.
• Demonstrated experience managing past due and unconfirmed purchase order lines and driving timely resolution.
• Proven ability to expedite orders and coordinate supplier delivery commitments to support production schedules.
• Experience with purchasing, supplier management, and general supply chain processes.
• Strong vendor communication skills, including the ability to respond promptly and professionally to suppliers.
• Comfort working in a high-volume, fast-paced procurement environment with competing priorities.
• Ability to multitask and adapt quickly in a reactive supply chain environment.
• Strong communication skills for coordinating across suppliers and internal cross-functional teams.
• Experience with ERP systems (IFS preferred but not required).
• Experience in life sciences, medical devices, or medical instruments preferred, with openness to related industries such as defense, DoD, or electronics.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience supporting supplier onboarding, setup, and compliance documentation.
• Exposure to supply chain performance improvement initiatives or KPI recovery projects.
• Familiarity with quoting processes and supplier negotiations.
• Experience working in a mid-level purchasing role within a structured supply chain team.
• Understanding of reactive supply chain dynamics and the ability to stabilize processes over time.
• Interest in contributing to meaningful work that directly impacts production and customer delivery.
• Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with peers, planners, and other cross-functional partners.

This is a Contract position based out of San Diego, CA.

The pay range for this position is $30.00 - $35.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in San Diego,CA.

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 24, 2026.

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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