Negotiate purchasing contracts and agreements with service and component suppliers.
Keep track of industry pricing trends
Implement and enforce purchasing processes and inventory control.
Monitor contracts/agreements to ensure compliance with terms and conditions and determine any need for changes.
Maintain and review records of items bought, costs, deliveries, product performance, and inventories.
Maintain spend/volume reports on key components to enable volume negotiation.
Review orders for bill of materials for projects and advice of potential savings to PM
Track and expedite orders and investigate order problems as required.
Maintain serial number tracker by project.
Maintain all purchasing records and documents and work with accounting to resolve invoice discrepancies.
Manage the start-up process for new suppliers.
Understands project scope, scheduling, priority milestones, and coordination procedures.
Coordinates and cooperates with Sales & Project Managers to ensure expedient exchange of information needed to complete each project milestone.
Manages procurement POs, supply agreements, and delivery schedules.
Requirements
Technical Knowledge/experience with:
Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
Project management.
Familiar with construction and supply contracts.
Understanding of budgets and financial models.
Able to establish and maintain good relations with clients.
Solid technical background of solar systems and/or components. This includes photovoltaic modules, racking or tracking systems, inverters, balance-of-system (AC and DC), transformers, switchgear.
Fundamental Qualifications:
Experience in solar industry preferred.
Fluent in MS Office products.
Familiarity with SAP preferable.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including ability to write clear and detailed technical reports, presentations and emails.
Must be comfortable with the technical aspects of the job as well as business and client interactions.
