Senior Buyer / Purchasing Agent - International Purchasing & Inventory at Brimar Industries -

Brimar Industries is seeking an experienced Senior Buyer / Purchasing Agent to join our procurement team. This is a senior, hands-on purchasing position within a small team, working closely with our Director of Strategic Sourcing.
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We're looking for someone who can take ownership of t
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he purchasing process from beginning to end, including personally creating and managing purchase orders, negotiating with suppliers, coordinating international inbound shipments with freight forwarders and customs brokers, calculating landed costs, and working with Finance on inventory-in-transit reporting.
While this position provides guidance and support to other purchasing team members, it is not solely a supervisory or strategic sourcing role. The successful candidate must be comfortable executing day-to-day purchasing responsibilities directly while serving as a senior resource to the team.
The ideal candidate is organized, analytical, detail-oriented, and proactive, with the ability to manage competing priorities, solve problems independently, and work effectively across departments.
Key Responsibilities
Purchasing & Purchase Order Management
• Personally create, place, and manage purchase orders for assigned products, materials, and suppliers.
• Evaluate purchasing requirements based on inventory levels, sales forecasts, supplier lead times, replenishment needs, and business priorities.
• Monitor open purchase orders, confirm delivery schedules, and proactively address delays, shortages, backorders, and discrepancies.
• Expedite critical orders to maintain appropriate inventory levels and support operational requirements.
• Review purchase orders placed by other purchasing team members to help ensure accuracy in quantities, pricing, terms, and delivery schedules.
• Maintain accurate purchasing records, supplier information, pricing, lead times, and order details within company systems.
• Coordinate with Operations, Warehouse, Sales, and other internal departments to address purchasing priorities and inventory requirements.
International Purchasing & Inbound Logistics
• Coordinate international inbound shipments from overseas suppliers, from order placement through delivery.
• Work directly with freight forwarders, customs brokers, overseas suppliers, and other logistics partners to facilitate timely and accurate shipments.
• Monitor international shipment schedules and proactively address delays, documentation discrepancies, customs issues, and other potential disruptions.
• Calculate and maintain landed costs for imported products, including product costs, freight, duties, tariffs, customs fees, and other associated expenses.
• Review international supplier, freight, customs, and related invoices for accuracy before submission to Accounting for payment.
• Maintain accurate international purchasing and shipping documentation, including commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, and other relevant records.
• Communicate shipment status, expected arrival dates, delays, and potential supply risks to internal stakeholders.
• Partner with Finance to ensure accurate landed-cost information is reflected in inventory costing and related financial reporting.
Supplier Management & Negotiations
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with domestic and international suppliers.
• Negotiate supplier pricing, purchasing terms, lead times, and other commercial conditions within established sourcing strategies.
• Work directly with suppliers to resolve pricing discrepancies, quality concerns, shortages, delivery issues, and other purchasing challenges.
• Monitor supplier performance, including pricing, quality, delivery reliability, and responsiveness.
• Identify recurring supplier issues and escalate significant concerns to the Director of Strategic Sourcing when appropriate.
• Support supplier evaluations, sourcing initia

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