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About the Role

Base is seeking a Buyer – Indirect Procurement to manage the acquisition of indirect goods and services, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness. This role involves managing purchase orders, coordinating with suppliers, resolving procurement issues, and enhancing the internal customer experience. You will act as the primary point of contact for procurement, prioritizing requests, ensuring adherence to negotiated pricing and contracts, and supporting sourcing strategies. Additionally, you will contribute to the implementation of Base's new Ramp Procurement platform and the development of scalable processes.

Responsibilities

Create and manage purchase orders for indirect goods and services, ensuring accurate and timely approval and issuance.
Validate that POs reflect the latest approved pricing, quotes, contracts, and negotiated terms before release.
Serve as the primary intake point for procurement requests, prioritizing by business impact and escalating when needed.
Partner with stakeholders throughout the procurement process, communicating updates and ensuring smooth handoffs for sourcing or contract negotiations.
Monitor open POs, expedite critical orders, and proactively resolve supplier issues and delivery risks.
Build strong supplier relationships while holding suppliers accountable for pricing, delivery, and performance.
Partner with Receiving, Accounts Payable, and suppliers to resolve invoice, receiving, and PO discrepancies.
Help implement and optimize the Ramp Procurement platform, building scalable workflows and best practices.

Requirements

High ownership – you follow through and get things done, with speed and accuracy.
Proven success in a high-volume, transaction-intensive environment (procurement, purchasing, operations, finance, or customer service).
Strong organizational and prioritization skills in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Sound judgment and independent decision-making.
Customer focus with strong communication and relationship-building skills.
Analytical and problem-solving mindset, with curiosity to learn new systems and processes.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Procurement systems experience (Ramp Procurement or similar) a plus, not required.

Location

Onsite

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Not specified

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

About the Company

Base is America’s next-generation power company, rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system.
Our supply chain team sources components, manages manufacturing, and builds the vendor relationships needed to produce and deliver the lowest-cost, highest-quality home battery systems at scale — optimizing landed costs, ramping domestic manufacturing, and developing supplier partnerships that hold up under pressure.
Homeowners across the country rely on Base for whole-home backup and below-market electricity rates, while our aggregated storage supports grid stability as demand accelerates from AI infrastructure, electrification, and extreme weather.
We're building the supply foundation to keep pace — manufacturing in-house and expanding nationally at speeds and costs incumbents can't match.
Our Values: First Principles Thinking, Operate at Base Pace, Give & Get Feedback, Everyone’s an Owner, Strong Opinions, Loosely Held, Committed to the Mission, Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit.