Buyer – Intermediate

82185
Houston, Texas
Contract
3 days ago

Job Title: Buyer – Intermediate

Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)
    
Estimated Duration: 12 Months

Buyer

We’re looking for a detail-oriented Buyer with strong procurement experience to lead sourcing activities from requisition to delivery. This role plays a key part in optimizing procurement processes, ensuring compliance, and supporting project and operations teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end procurement of goods and services, including vendor sourcing, evaluation, and negotiation

  • Lead competitive bidding processes (RFPs, RFQs, RFIs) and conduct commercial bid evaluations

  • Coordinate with internal teams (Engineering, Legal, Risk, Project Management) and external suppliers

  • Create and manage purchase orders, maintain accurate records in SAP, and ensure compliance with procurement policies

  • Monitor PO status and provide timely updates to stakeholders

  • Resolve invoice discrepancies and support supplier qualification efforts

  • Serve as the primary contact for procurement activities within assigned scope

  • Continuously seek opportunities to improve procurement processes and strengthen supplier relationships

Requirements

  • SAP Buyer experience is required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field

  • 3–10 years’ experience in purchasing, contracts, or project procurement

  • Knowledge of strategic sourcing, supplier management, and Incoterms

  • Strong communication, customer service, and organizational skills

  • Proficient with MS Office and comfortable working independently and in teams

  • Analytical mindset with keen attention to detail

  • Demonstrated integrity and ability to work under tight deadlines

Preferred

  • Experience in the oil & gas sector

  • Commercial negotiation skills

  • Familiarity with Power BI

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is between $30.00 and $33.00

Our benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and 401k.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.

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Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Information Technology and Engineering staffing and consulting services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. Rather than continually trying to sell to new clients and companies and simply filling databases with candidates, we focus on developing stronger relationships and deeper knowledge of our existing clients’ challenges and opportunities.  We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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