Buyer Team Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Buyer Team Lead Job Description

The Buyer Team Lead provides day-to-day guidance and mentoring to the buyer team, ensuring plant material availability and inventory requirements are balanced and aligned with production needs. The role supports and executes supply chain strategies in partnership with commodity management, while tracking and supporting performance metrics related to procurement and buying activities in the plant.

• Provide guidance and mentoring to the buyer team.
• Ensure plant material availability and inventory requirements are balanced with production needs.
• Support and execute supply chain strategies with commodity management.
• Track and support performance metrics related to procurement and buying activities.
• Own supplier relationships and manage supply chain performance.
• Generate and manage purchase orders in SAP.
• Proactively resolve material shortages and delivery risks.
• Drive supplier KPIs and ensure on-time delivery.
• Support supplier setup and qualification.
• Ensure compliance with procurement tools and guidelines.
• Lead non-conformance resolution with quality and engineering teams.

• Purchasing and supervision experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in procurement or supply chain.
• Experience with SAP.
• Strong communication and Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel.
• Customer-focused, collaborative, and adaptable.
• Self-starter with problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Ability to analyze inventory and monitor supplier performance.
• Capability to generate and analyze key purchasing metrics.
• Experience in issuing purchase orders and expediting deliveries.
• Collaborative work style with production planning leadership and supervisors.

This position requires on-site presence five days a week.

This is a Permanent position based out of Wendell, NC.

The pay range for this position is $75000.00 - $120000.00/yr.

Health Dental Vision 401k

This is a fully onsite position in Wendell,NC.

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 3, 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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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.