Associate Buyer

Location: Huntsville, AL

US Citizenship Required

About the Role

Leidos is seeking an Associate Buyer to support our Huntsville Alabama facility. This is an opportunity to join a large established company and learn the procurement field while contributing to meaningful programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Define plans, processes, methods, and tools for ensuring supply chain management and chain of custody for government assets.
• Research and recommend cost-effective purchase arrangements.
• Support the government's purchase process and coordinate the delivery of purchases.
• Manage, track, and audit hardware recapitalization, maintenance agreements, and software licensing.
• Review purchase requisitions for clarity, compliance, detail, and completeness.
• Actively manage the procurement process from order placement through receipt of products and invoice payment.
• Manage supplier performance through communication to ensure adherence to purchase order terms and conditions.
• Participate in the invoice approval process to ensure supplier invoices align with purchase order terms and conditions.
• Resolve issues as necessary.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to effectively communicate processes and procedures to customers.
• Possess outstanding customer service skills.
• Ability to travel between local sites on occasion.
• Strong interpersonal skills to maintain effective working relationships.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Willingness to learn new skills and apply them confidently.
• Use of problem-solving techniques for unique procurement requests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and some work experience – generally less than 2 years.
• A combination of education, experience, training through employment, internships, military, or certification relative to procurement may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior procurement experience with a government contracting firm.
• Experience in executing on-time deliveries of machines, equipment, and components.
• Experience interacting with key suppliers.
• Experience dealing with the financial impacts of supplier decisions on programs.
• Experience managing, tracking, and auditing existing hardware and software inventories.
• Experience supporting procurement system compliance, materials management, prime contract flow downs, supplier quality, and supplier teaming.
• Experience working with price analysis methodologies.