Buyer - Commodity Specialist

Overview

HYVE Solutions is dedicated to enabling success for customers, partners, and employees through aligned goals, strategic approaches, shared resources, and technology. The Buyer - Commodity Specialist role focuses on overseeing procurement functions to ensure efficient and cost-effective acquisition of inventory and materials.

Key Responsibilities

• Reviewing and evaluating purchase requisitions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness.
• Coordinating purchasing efforts with manufacturing, planning, and engineering teams to secure inventory timely and cost-effectively.
• Managing purchase requisitions, change orders, and supplier quotation requests.
• Maintaining procurement system data integrity, including bills of material and parts/commodity numbers within enterprise-wide supply chain systems.
• Contributing to procurement team optimization by managing part parameters, quote tables, supplier database updates, and analyzing error reports.
• Conducting cost analysis and volume planning for key commodities such as materials, components, equipment, and services.
• Monitoring cost, timelines, and scope of subcontracts to negotiate the best quality at optimal value.
• Identifying new supply sources when current vendors become noncompetitive.
• Proposing cost-saving strategies, including make-versus-buy analyses and alternative sourcing options.
• Collaborating closely with suppliers and quality assurance teams to resolve quality-related issues.
• Supporting management in all facets of commodity management, encompassing procurement support, commodity business planning, market trend evaluations, pricing strategies, and product availability assessments.
• Applying domestic or global commodity expertise as required.

Additional Information

HYVE Solutions values its employees as key assets and encourages empowerment to drive meaningful business impact. The company embraces diversity and inclusion and commits to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.