# Purchasing Associate

As a Purchasing Associate, you will play a key role in the procurement process, ensuring that Group O acquires goods and services at the best possible prices and within specified times. You will be responsible for sourcing suppliers, negotiating contracts, monitoring inventory levels, and maintaining relationships with vendors. The ideal candidate for the Purchasing Associate position would be initiative-taking, meticulous, analytical, and possesses effective communication and negotiation skills, along with a commitment to ethical conduct and continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities Essential Functions: Request, generate, and process purchase orders in a timely and accurate manner, verifying product specifications, pricing, and delivery schedules. Collaborate with suppliers on expedited delivery dates, monitoring delivery, and work with suppliers on late deliveries. Generate and submit purchase orders for non-sellable items from a purchase requisition. Validate and process invoices for payment. Coordinate with internal stakeholders to understand their purchasing needs and requirements. Monitor inventory levels and initiate replenishment orders as needed to prevent stockouts and

- **Id**: 4288011
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/group-o-purchasing-associate>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Fort Worth, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T22:29:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T23:08:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2284
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Packaging & Labeling, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

## Company

- **Id**: 673250
- **Name**: Group O
- **Domain**: groupo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/groupo>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

## Salary

- **Min**: 23
- **Max**: 24
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 48000

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T22:29:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 48000
- **Is top pay**: no

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