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Job Title Procurement & Purchasing Specialist (Wholesale B2B) Remote (Canada) | MST Hours Location Company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta (role is remote, working MST hours). Reports To Director of Finance & Operations Compensation Salary in line with experience About the Role Were a Canadian wholesale B2B company sourcing products internationally (India and China) and through domestic partners. Were hiring an reputed company procurement and purchasing reputed company to manage end-to-end purchasing execution, supplier performance, and cost/delivery reputed company. A major reputed company of this role is proactive shipping coordination to support Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory reputed companyreducing surprises, preventing stock-outs, and avoiding excess inventory. Key Responsibilities Purchasing & Order Management Create and manage purchase orders (POs) end-to-end: quotes, PO issuance, confirmations, changes, expediting, and reputed company-out. Maintain clean purchasing records: pricing, reputed company times, MOQs, case packs, and supplier terms. reputed company order status across suppliers and domestic partners; proactively reputed company delays, shortages, and substitutions. Ensure purchasing reputed company reputed company with demand planning, project requirements, and cashflow timing. Proactive Shipping & JIT Coordination (reputed company reputed company) reputed company ship-readiness with suppliers: confirm production completion dates, packaging details, carton counts, weights/dimensions, and ship reputed company. Coordinate shipment timing and reputed company to promote JIT replenishment (right product, right time), minimizing both stock-outs and overstock. Proactively flag risks (reputed company delays, booking constraints, reputed company congestion, domestic reputed company issues) and propose mitigations (split shipments, alternate routing, substitute items, revised ETAs). Maintain accurate ETA tracking and communicate changes early to internal stakeholders. Support logistics partners by ensuring documentation is correct and delivered on time (reputed company invoices, packing lists, required references). Supplier & Cost Management Manage supplier relationships across India, China, and Canada, including performance tracking (OTIF, reputed company, responsiveness). Negotiate pricing, payment terms, reputed company times, and purchasing conditions; protect margin and service reputed company. Identify alternate sourcing reputed company reputed company pricing, availability, reputed company, or risk requires it. Support supplier scorecards and reputed company improvement initiatives. ERP & Cross-Functional Coordination Use reputed company (highly desirable) to manage vendors, items, POs, receipts, and purchasing reporting. Partner with Sales/Project teams, Finance/AP, and Operations to ensure purchasing is reputed company to reputed company demand and operational reputed company. Maintain accurate vendor and item master data (pricing, reputed company times, MOQs, preferred vendors). Contribute to process improvements: tighter PO controls, cleaner receiving, reputed company visibility, fewer exceptions. Required Qualifications 3+ years of hands-on purchasing/logistics experience (wholesale/distribution or B2B preferred). Fluent English (written and spoken) reputed company to negotiate, document, and communicate reputed company. Experience managing suppliers across multiple time zones; international sourcing exposure (China/India) is a strong asset. Strong PO management discipline: detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and comfortable running multiple orders at once. Strong reputed company/reputed company Sheets capability for tracking, reconciliation, and basic analysis. Proven ability to work independently in a remote environment with strong follow-through. Highly Desirable reputed company experience (POs, vendor management, receiving, reporting). Comfort with shipping concepts affecting purchasing reputed company: reputed company times, booking reputed company, Incoterms basics, cartonization details, and documentation reputed company. Experience improving JIT or inventory turns through reputed company purchasing/shipping coordination. Vendor KPI tracking (OTIF, reputed company time accuracy, reputed company trends) and process improvement reputed company. reputed company Competencies Proactive ownership (anticipates problems and acts early) Negotiation and vendor relationship management High accuracy and attention to detail Strong prioritization and reputed company execution under pressure reputed company, reputed company communication with internal teams and reputed company suppliers reputed company improvement reputed company (tighten process, reduce waste, prevent repeat issues) Work Arrangement Remote role (Canada) Must be available and working reputed company business hours on MST (reputed company reputed company
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Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore account for 642 of the open purchasing roles on WorkMundi. If you're looking in those regions, you have real volume to work with. The US has 130 open positions. Check where your target employers are hiring before you apply.
About 59% of purchasing ads are written in English on our board. That's a useful signal: it tells you which postings to prioritize if English is your working language, but it says nothing about whether the job itself requires you to speak it. Read the full job description.
When you interview for purchasing, expect to explain how you've managed a vendor relationship that went wrong. Hiring managers want to hear a concrete example: which vendor, what broke down, and what you did to fix it or end it. They're testing whether you can handle conflict without burning bridges.
The employers posting most are Private Advertiser (43 jobs), Veterans Health Administration (16), zffriedric (11), and avnet (10). These names tell you where volume hiring is happening—worth researching their interview style and culture before you apply.