Would You Take This Job – Supply Chain Parts Buyer

Job Title: Supply Chain Parts Buyer

Company: Zunch Staffing

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Schedule: Full-time

Salary: $50,000 – $70,000 per year

What You’ll Do:
Manage procurement of parts and materials to support customer service and service technicians; create and process purchase orders; expedite orders and resolve delivery issues; prepare system reports and monthly metrics; maintain supplier relationships; and collaborate with inside/outside sales and operations to ensure timely material availability.

Required Qualifications (high level):

  • ~5 years’ procurement experience (project-management experience preferred).

  • Strong negotiation and supplier-management skills.

  • Comfortable with MRP/ERP systems and advanced Excel (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables).

  • Good communication and organizational skills; ability to work cross-functionally.

Why it’s unique:
Hands-on purchasing role with direct impact on production/service continuity, supplier relationship ownership, and opportunities to shape procurement policies in a growing supply-chain team.

Here is the link to view more job details or apply.

Would You Take This Job?
Would you take a parts-buyer role in Raleigh—managing suppliers, expediting orders, and supporting operations for $50–$70K/year? Why or why not?

In my last buyer role, a quick daily sweep of the late-POs report with the service lead cut expedites by half. If you do this, keep a simple supplier scorecard (on-time %, lead-time accuracy) for the top 5 vendors and review it monthly — it keeps parts flowing and conversations factual.

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Make sure you can pull real usage from service tickets. I rebuilt ROPs as 12‑week average weekly demand × (supplier lead time in weeks + 1 week buffer), and our expedites dropped from about 18 a month to 4 without growing total inventory.

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