About this role:
The Buyer manages sourcing and purchasing for assigned commodities and services, securing materials at the best total cost while ensuring supply continuity. This role negotiates with suppliers, manages purchase orders and partners with Planning and Quality to resolve supply issues.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manages purchasing for assigned materials, components and services.
- Negotiates pricing, terms, contracts and lead times with suppliers.
- Places and manages purchase orders and monitors supplier delivery performance.
- Identifies and executes cost-savings and supplier-development opportunities.
- Partners with Planning to resolve shortages and with Quality on supplier non-conformances.
- Maintains accurate purchasing data and parameters in the ERP.
- Ensures compliance with Carrier's sourcing policies and trade requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree.
- 5+ years of purchasing/procurement experience.
- Experience negotiating supplier pricing, terms, and contracts.
- Experience managing purchase orders, supplier performance tracking, and maintaining accurate data within an ERP system.
- Experience conducting cost driver analysis and identifying cost-reduction opportunities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or a related field.
- Experience with manufacturing/direct-material procurement.
- Proficiency in SAP ERP.
- Experience with engineering change management across engineering, manufacturing, and external suppliers to ensure timely implementation.
- Working knowledge of U.S. trade compliance and USMCA sourcing rules.
- Professional procurement or supply chain certification (e.g., CPSM, APICS/ASCM CPIM, or CSCP).
Pay Range
The annual salary for this position is between $79,000.00 - $158,000.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. The pay range will not be below the minimum wage applicable to the jurisdiction in which the applicant is to be employed.
Other Compensation
Thisposition may be entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.
Benefits
Employees are eligible for benefits, including:
Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives
Retirement Benefits
Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation
Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
Tuition Assistance
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Application Deadline
Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days fromJobPosting Date: 25 September 2026
Use of AI
Technology-enabled tools may support parts of the recruitment process, with oversight by people.
