What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at DigitalOcean?
We are looking for a detail-oriented Buyer to join our team, who is passionate about Procurement across multiple commodities. This role requires strong negotiation skills, the ability to manage supplier relationships, and a focus on ensuring timely and cost-effective procurement while adhering to quality and budget requirements.
As a Buyer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing.
What You’ll Do
As a Buyer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute purchasing strategies to meet the origination’s supply needs while optimizing costs across multiple commodities
- Source and identify suppliers for goods, materials, components or services evaluating price, quality and delivery targets
- Support Senior Buyer on large Capital Projects and Initiatives ensuring business objectives are met.
- Collaborate with various internal departments (e.g., Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain) to align procurement needs with business goals.
- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures during supplier negotiations and issuance of purchase orders.
- Assist in the preparation of reports related to procurement activities and cost savings
- Coordinate several projects with multiple business units to ensure accurate and timely deadlines simultaneously
- 3 years of proven experience in a Buyer Role
- Experience with procuring various commodities with a heavy emphasis on technology related purchases.
- Ability to handle multiple high priority projects simultaneously
- Experience with ERP and other purchasing systems
- Able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with staff, stakeholders and suppliers
- Good knowledge of purchasing, negotiation, commercial understanding and cost breakdown
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000 courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is $85,000 to $95,000 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
- This is a remote role
Salary : $85,000 - $95,000
