Buyer

Overview

We want you to join our team! We need deeply compassionate, committed and highly talented staff. The Woods organization is guided by their mission to support children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential and independence through innovative and individualized approaches that promote learning and personal fulfillment.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• PTO -Paid time off
• On-site FREE medical center
• 403b retirement plan
• Continuing education programs
• Tuition-assisted program
• Career growth opportunities

Salary: Starting at $16.20 - $21 / hour - depending on experience

Job Summary

A buyer is responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and managing products or materials to ensure timely delivery, quality, and cost-effectiveness for an organization. Place and expedite purchase orders and work closely with internal departments to clarify their purchasing needs.


Responsibilities

• Buyers identify and review received requisitions. They ensure that products meet quality standards and are delivered according to demand following purchasing procurement guidelines.
• Develop alternate sources, ensuring continuity of supply, consistency of quality, and completive pricing.
• Advise management of market conditions and supplier-based activity that could affect pricing and delivery.
• Gain familiarity with the end use of assigned commodities, leading to the possibility of alternative materials or specifications.
• Review invoices when price and terms do not agree with the purchase order.
• Buyers maintain accurate records of supplier information, purchase orders, invoices, and delivery schedules. They ensure compliance with contractual agreements and internal policies.
• Month-end reconciliation of credit card transactions and expense reporting.
• Generate effective communication, good relationships and positive relationships with suppliers and co-workers, promoting professionalism, objectivity, and fairness.
• Buyers work closely with internal departments such as finance, day programs, education, and residential to align purchasing decisions with business objectives.
• Perform related duties as assigned and all other duties.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Three years' buying experience in a service related environment preferred.
• Must have knowledge of standard purchasing procedures and practices, computer skills, and effective written and oral communication skills.

About Woods Services

Woods Services is a Pennsylvania and New Jersey-based non-profit population health network and advocacy organization that along with its six affiliate organizations provides life-long innovative, comprehensive and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health and case management services to more than 22,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs.

Our Langhorne campus is home to 550 residents and provides outpatient and day programs.