Part-time Buyer

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

Responsibilities:

• Issue purchase orders to procure high quality goods and services in the most cost effective manner for on time delivery.
• Review purchase orders for accuracy and completeness and obtain proper approvals as needed
• Proactively monitor vendor order confirmations, ship dates, and tracking information.
• Coordinate with suppliers regarding order revisions, damage claims, rejections, and losses, return of materials, over-shipment, cancellations, and specification changes
• Ensure that the vendor pricing is in alignment with the terms and conditions defined in the MSA while ensuring the best quality, delivery schedule, and freight costs.
• Coordinate with internal sales/customer service to ensure delivery schedules meet customer commitments.
• Familiarize with basic product specifications related to purchasing orders.
• Interact regularly with the Warehouse department to resolve discrepancies between purchase orders and incoming shipments.
• Work with Accounting on discrepancies between POs and vendor invoices.
• Solve order-related problems and communicate with Purchasing lead on a timely basis.
• Other tasks as assigned by the Purchasing lead.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience in a purchasing related field; 5 years preferred
• Demonstrates effective communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office/Google Suite
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking, the ability to self-manage

Good to have:

• Experience with purchasing electronic mechanical parts preferred
• Experience with Netsuite or other purchasing/ERP systems preferred

Our DE&I Philosophy: Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.

Our Compensation Philosophy: Our goal is to ensure that all Lunar Energy employees are fairly compensated. Please note that the hourly range information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position provided pursuant to the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act for California applicants. The hourly range estimate for this position depending on level of experience is $43-$48 USD

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package will be at the company’s sole discretion, and determined by factors including but not limited to years of experience, job level, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. The company also reserves the right to amend or modify this job description, employee perks, and benefits at any time.