Job Description
The Buyer & Product Specialist is responsible for sourcing products and materials, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring all products meet applicable safety, regulatory, quality, and compliance requirements. This role serves as the primary liaison between suppliers, testing laboratories, and internal stakeholders to ensure products are delivered on time, within budget, and in full compliance with applicable regulations. This role serves as NIHF's primary resource for consumer product safety, regulatory compliance, product testing, and supplier quality assurance. The position works closely with domestic and international suppliers, third-party testing laboratories, and internal stakeholders to ensure all products meet applicable safety standards, including ASTM F963, CPSIA, CPSC requirements, and related regulatory obligations. Position Responsibilities:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Credentials and Experience:
Why Join the National Inventors Hall of Fame?
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | North Canton, Ohio |
| Industry | Nonprofit Charitable Organizations |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
About Company
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is a dynamic nonprofit organization that offers its employees, interns, and volunteers the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to inspire creativity and innovation in America. Through our programs we have encouraged nearly two million people to explore, create, and invent. We honor the greatest inventors whose inventions have changed our world through induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, recognize college-level inventors through the Collegiate Inventors Competition, and inspire a new generation of innovators through education programs including Camp Invention, Invention Project, and Club Invention. We have an entrepreneurial culture that rewards creativity and ambition. We also understand the value and importance, both professionally and personally, of providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package. We are committed to providing competitive benefits including health benefits, retirement savings, professional development opportunities and more.
Skills
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Business Administrationunmatched
- Cargo/Freightunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Flexible Spending Accountsunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Insuranceunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Documentationunmatched
- Product Reviewsunmatched
- Product Safetyunmatched
- Product Testingunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Safety Complianceunmatched
- Safety Standardsunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)unmatched
- Supply Chain Managementunmatched
- Test Labunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
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