Purchasing Coordinator
North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives
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The Purchasing Coordinator supports the purchasing function and the ongoing procurement of approved or specified materials and services. The role maintains purchasing records and order follow-up systems, processes acknowledgements, supports buyers with purchase orders and discrepancies, and coordinates with vendors and the warehouse. It reports to the Director of Purchasing and works closely with the purchasing team and accounting department.
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Description
Division : TEMA
Summary Description: To provide support services to the purchasing function and the continued development, revision, and implementation of the ongoing program of procurement of approved and/or specified materials and services.
Academic and Trade Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent required with 2 years of college or professional training and experience.
Work Experience: 2 or more years of work experience in a customer service oriented environment and direct interaction with customers/clients
Responsibilities:
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Maintains and improves upon electronic records for purchasing department.
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Maintains and improves upon an effective order acknowledgement and expediting follow-up system for purchasing orders.
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Review order acknowledgement report daily and update as necessary.
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Process order acknowledgements as they are received and update system and assist buyers in reconciling discrepancies.
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Requests quotations and/or information as directed by Director of Purchasing.
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Regularly reviews open order reports to spot past due items to start expediting.
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Monitors receiving report daily and assists with adjusting base pricing on the system as necessary.
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Assists buyers in entry and proofreading of purchase orders in preparation for approval.
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Sets up new vendor information on the system.
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Sets up new non-stock items on the system.
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Initiates adjustments with vendors at the direction of buyers involving purchasing, purchase order revisions, and cancellations.
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Works close with warehouse to reconcile shipping discrepancies.
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Place orders directly with suppliers as directed by Director of Purchasing.
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Assists with emergency work plan during severe weather as directed.
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Perform other functions or duties as required or directed.
Job Knowledge: Effective working knowledge of office procedures and purchasing procedures preferred. Most possess working knowledge of computers and office machines with good understanding of filing systems and follow-up.
Abilities and Skills: Accurate typist with at least 60 wpm with ability to type numerals effectively. Ability to operate a variety of office equipment such as computer terminal, PC, calculator, and copier / printer. Must understand and be able to compute discounts, percentages, various units of measure, etc. Must possess effective telephone and written business communication skills.
Relationships and Contacts: Reports to Director of Purchasing and works closely with Purchasing team and accounting department
Working Conditions: Normal working conditions
Company Profile : North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives ( http://ncemcs.com/about/ncemc.htm ) is the brand for the family of organizations formed to support the state’s 26 local electric cooperatives, including: North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation, the power supplier to many of the electric cooperatives; North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives, the cooperatives’ trade association; and Tarheel Electric Membership Association, Inc. (TEMA), a central purchasing and materials-supply cooperative.
North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment.
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How this job compares
Set against the 5,201 open Procurement jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$104–156K/yr81 salary ranges
- US median$25–34/hr376 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 155 open Procurement jobs in North Carolina and 5,201 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Accenture9 open
- Corning Incorporated8 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Procurement postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,099 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,561 of the 5,201 open Procurement jobs (49%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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