Job Description – Collabera

Contract: Bellevue, Washington, US

Salary Range: 24.00 - 26.00 | Per Hour

Job Code: 363430

End Date: 2025-08-02

Days Left: 24 days, 17 hours left

Title: Buyer I

Location: Bellevue, WA

Duration: 12 months

Pay range: $24 - $26/hr

Job Description:

The Buyer will assist the Buying Team in expanding selection by setting up new vendors and items, maintaining the product catalog and managing pricing.
Job responsibilities include new product launch & coordination, maintaining product cost, retail price, content and images, vendor relations, and assisting with special projects.
Successful candidates will be highly organized, self-motivated, detail-oriented and have strong computer skills (Excel, Word, Access, Power Point). An understanding of data management and databases is also a plus. The candidate must be able to work in a highly demanding, but collegial environment where teamwork is a must.
They will be responsible for requesting and reviewing quotes, negotiations, working with ordering team to place orders, manage supply readiness and escalations.
They’ll also communicate with vendors to provide product ETAs to our customers as required.
Based on a 40-hour work week, we expect them to use 10% of their time on requesting quotes, 20% on quote evaluations, 20% on negotiations, 40% on Supply Readiness and 10% on managing escalations.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in management or related field.
3-5 years of buyer experience, (electrical or compressor industry) preferred
Advanced MS Excel (pivot tables, vlookups) 2 - 4 Years
Data analysis – use tools to get averages of data, checking opinions on the data sets. Looking at which codes are higher.2 - 4 Years
General contractor construction – knowledge of how to troubleshoot any issues that arise. (permit issues or other industry standards) 2 - 4 Years
Good negotiation 2 - 4 Years

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Recruiter

Phone

Sidharth Sethi

sidharth.sethi@collabera.com

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