AML Oceanographic Job Board
Purchaser - Electronics
Description
The Purchaser - Sensors & Accessories is a proactive, relationship-driven supply chain professional responsible for ensuring AML has the right parts, at the right time, at the best price. This role is accountable for managing their part portfolio and the relationships with their assigned suppliers. Purchasers are responsible for driving supplier accountability, maintaining supply continuity, improving inventory performance, and negotiating effectively within AML’s approved supplier framework.
Success in this role requires strong judgment, operational discipline, and the ability to influence outcomes across suppliers, engineering, inventory, and production teams. The ideal candidate is commercially minded, highly organized, and motivated by solving problems before they impact operations or customers.
The mission of this role is: “Ensure uninterrupted part availability and healthy inventory performance through disciplined supplier management, proactive purchasing, and continuous operational improvement.”
Why AML?
At AML, we’re always on the hunt for passionate team players who want to make a difference. AMLers commit their hands, their heads, and their hearts to their position. There are no sidelines.
This is not corporate marketing: Glassdoor ratings score AML at 4.70 on 5.00. Our eNPS numbers are equally impressive, with a +62 response to the question: “Do you enjoy working at AML?”
AMLers cite five main reasons why they choose us:
- our culture,
- the people,
- our growth trajectory,
- transparency,
- and workplace flexibility.
AML designs and manufactures ocean-sensing solutions — sensors, instrumentation, and deployment systems — for customers on all seven continents. We have a market reputation for going to the ends of the earth to make our customers successful, enabling them to focus on oceanography, not the equipment.
As a hi-tech manufacturing business, our technical team includes experts and engineers with experience in the acoustic, mechanical, electrical, software, and embedded software domains. We operate from locations at either end of Canada.
What You’ll Do
Own Supplier Cost & Performance: Manage purchasing outcomes for assigned suppliers and part portfolio within AML’s approved supplier framework. Drive strong commercial performance through disciplined negotiation practices, supplier relationship management, secondary quoting, and market awareness.
Ensure Supply Continuity: Maintain uninterrupted availability of parts required to support production and customer commitments. Anticipate supply risks early, coordinate mitigation plans proactively, and resolve disruptions with minimal operational impact.
Optimize Inventory Health: Make purchasing decisions that balance operational resilience, lead times, demand variability, and inventory investment. Support healthy inventory turns while minimizing shortages, excess inventory, and reactive purchasing.
Build Strong Supplier Relationships: Develop productive long-term supplier relationships that improve responsiveness, delivery reliability, communication, and commercial outcomes.
Maintain Accurate ERP Data: Ensure purchasing and supplier data remains accurate and actionable within ERP systems, including pricing, lead times, minimum order quantities, and replenishment parameters.
Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify root causes, improve purchasing processes, strengthen supplier performance, and contribute to operational improvements across the supply chain.
Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with engineering, inventory, production, and operations teams to align purchasing priorities with changing business needs and operational realities.
Performance Expectations
An A-level performer consistently demonstrates all of the following:
Commercial Performance & Negotiation: Achieves purchase cost reduction targets or demonstrates systematic, active, and impactful negotiation practices that improve pricing, responsiveness, delivery performance, and supplier accountability.
Inventory Performance: Maintains healthy inventory turns or proactively identifies root causes and drives specific corrective actions when performance falls outside target.
Supply Continuity: Prevents avoidable stockouts through proactive planning and supplier management or resolves supply disruptions with negligible customer or operational impact.
Quality of Work: Produces consistently accurate, reliable work and demonstrates strong learning agility by identifying root causes, implementing corrective actions, and avoiding repeat mistakes.
Competencies
Negotiation & Commercial Acumen: Able to negotiate effectively while building sustainable supplier relationships and long-term commercial value.
Ownership Mentality: Takes initiative, identifies issues early, and proactively drives solutions within operational and cross-functional constraints.
Supply Chain Judgment: Understands the tradeoffs between availability, lead times, inventory investment, operational risk, and supplier performance.
ERP/MRP Fluency: Comfortable using ERP systems to manage purchasing activities, supplier data, replenishment signals, and inventory decisions.
Communication & Relationship Building: Builds trust through clear, proactive, and professional communication with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement Mindset: Learns quickly from mistakes, improves systems proactively, and contributes to stronger operational performance over time.
Company culture is paramount and we’re looking for like-minded individuals to join our team.
Experience Level: Intermediate (3-5 years of relevant experience)
Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Compensation
$58,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year