Buyer

Title: Buyer
Location: Anchorage, AK

POSITION PURPOSE
The Buyer is responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing materials, equipment, and services required for the project. This role ensures cost-effective procurement and purchase order lifecycle management while maintaining quality, reliability, and compliance with industry regulations and company policies.
Ensure procurement is completed in alignment with contract compliance and strategies, following all policies to yield best value to Company. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Purchase materials according to required technical specifications, price, delivery schedule and terms, negotiating with main suppliers and periodically renewing price lists, terms, and conditions
• Oversee support provided by third party procurement services to ensure alignment with Company procedures
• Initiate purchase orders according to the purchase requisitions and in alignment with standard procedures
• Manage the complete purchase order lifecycle from creation through to closure, ensuring timely processing, accurate tracking, invoice resolution and proper documentation at each stage.
• Oversee supplier performance (on-time delivery, quality, lead time) and resolving performance issues
• Identify and qualify new suppliers together with supplier quality and engineering team members
• Align supplier orders with customer requirements in terms of content, quality, delivery, sustainability, and price
• Work closely with and provide a high degree of professional SCM support services to internal stakeholders.
• Help to monitor and ensure process compliance as it relates to SCM activities.
• Align and work closely with Logistics and Materials Management when it comes to expediting and receipting of Goods.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other buyers, sharing expertise and best practices to support their professional development.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance ways of working and actively supporting the implementation of process and technology changes within the team and across stakeholder groups. QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Education/Experience
• High School Diploma with 4 years relevant work experience; OR Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience in purchasing
• Experience in an oil & gas environment, not required but could be beneficial
• Experience working with ERP systems for procurement and supply chain management, with SAP experience preferred
• Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, pivot table, combining large data sets, and complex formula development to support procurement reporting and decision making

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.