Departmental Buyer
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The Departmental Buyer supports purchasing operations by securing bids, developing supply sources, preparing purchase-order documentation, and assisting with product and service sourcing. The role also handles ProCard records and reconciliation, provides contract pricing and procedural guidance, maintains order information in university databases, and backs up other purchasers as needed.
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Full job description
Secure bids via telephone and email, award, and make award recommendations.Develop sources of supply.Prepare necessary documentation complying with UT and federal regulations to effect a Purchase Order. (Including but not limited to maintaining the ProCard files, posting information to the Procard Transaction Log as issued by UT Office of Accounting to track charges and assist in voucher preparation.)Prepares, submits, and reconciles Procard as required by the UT Accounting Office.Assist in locating products and services required to meet contractual requirements.Provides pricing for contract cost estimates and planning.Provide advance planning and guidance concerning approvals and procedures.Ensures database provides accurate and current order information.Responsible for data entry, retrieval, and use of information from the ARL:UT IRIS database as well as the UT DEFINE/POINT PLUS System.Responsible for accurate and thorough data entry retrieval and use of information on 1) the ARL:UT database for record keeping, order tracking, and status reporting, and 2) UT DEFINE and POINT PLUS System.Provide back-up support to one or more purchasers within the Purchasing Office via meetings, telephone, database (Tickler), or email.Regular rotating assignments and/or other special projects at the direction of the Senior Departmental Buyer or Office Manager.Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,235 open Buyer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$66–102K/yr24 salary ranges
- US median$30–34/hr141 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 91 open Buyer jobs in Texas and 1,235 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- SpaceX8 open
- Applied Materials5 open
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- Experience
- Buyer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (910 postings).
- Education
- 390 of the 1,235 open Buyer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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