The Buyer is responsible for executing purchasing activities for assigned raw materials, ensuring timely and accurate inbound flow to support production schedules. This role maintains RM data accuracy, coordinates with suppliers and internal teams, and supports cost, quality, and service expectations. The Buyer contributes to raw material inventory health through daily transactional activities and basic reporting.

Additional Information

The travel for this position is 10%.

This role is not remote/hybrid. This role will report to Sherwin-Williams Richmond, KYSite at 395 Boggs Lane South Richmond KY 40475.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future
• Must have a bachelor’s degree or four (4) years of work experience in purchasing, scheduling, buying, operations and clerical
• Must have at least one (1) years of work experience in purchasing, supply chain, logistic, purchasing or scheduling

Preferred Qualification:

• Have a bachelor’s degree or higher in supply chain management
• Have at least two (2) years of work experience in purchasing, supply chain, logistics, purchasing or scheduling
• Have experience with procurement transactions or vendor follow up
• Have exposure with manufacturing or materials environments
• Have experience with scheduling tools and MRP systems
• Have experience using ERP software (e.g. Oracle Cloud, SAP, etc.)
• Have at least one (1) year of experience using Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and/or Outlook)
• Execute purchase orders for assigned raw materials and monitor delivery status.
• Follow up late, at-risk, or incomplete POs and communicate impacts to site stakeholders.
• Issues supplier non conformances for quality or delivery discrepancies.
• Perform RM transactional corrections, and basic inventory verification.
• Support cycle count accuracies and annual physical inventory processes.
• Assist with inter site transfer coordination to balance RM levels.
• Support efforts to reduce demurrage/detention through timely follow-up and dock alignment.

Employee Engagement

• Be active in employee engagement initiatives.
• Exhibit behaviors consistent with S-Ws Create Your Possible and S-Ws Culture of Belonging.

Safety and Wellness

• Support safety initiatives.
• Adhere to all safety policies while working on-site.
• Participate in required safety training and promote a safety culture with all employees.