Lights Core Buyer
About this role
Position Summary
As a Lights Core Buyer, you'll be responsible for actively sourcing and purchasing automotive light cores from individual vendors, shops, recyclers, and suppliers across a designated region. This is a sales-centric, field-based role built around building relationships, negotiating purchases, and securing light cores to support remanufacturing operations — requiring local in-person vendor visits and price negotiation.
The ideal candidate is comfortable with a physically demanding role in a warehouse environment and regular travel, has strong interpersonal skills, and is familiar with the automotive industry.
What you'll do
- Vendor Sourcing & Negotiation
- Conduct in-person negotiations, pricing discussions, and deal closings with vendors.
- Build and maintain strong vendor relationships to ensure a consistent pipeline of light cores.
- Secure competitive pricing while maintaining quality standards and supply continuity.
- Actively prospect new vendors through market research, cold outreach, and on-site visits.
- Represent the company professionally as a primary point of contact for core buying.
- Travel the assigned region to identify, source, and purchase automotive light cores from vendors, recyclers, body shops, and other suppliers.
- Logistics & operations
- Coordinate payment and logistics, including scheduling pickups or deliveries to remanufacturing locations.
- Transport cores in a company Sprinter van and prep light cores for shipping.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to availability, quality, delivery timing, or vendor concerns.
- Reporting & cross-functional partnership
- Maintain accurate records of purchases, pricing, vendor interactions, and deliveries.
- Monitor regional market trends, pricing fluctuations, and competitor activity.
- Partner with internal procurement, logistics, and remanufacturing teams to align purchasing with operational needs.
What you'll bring
- Minimum 2 years of experience in automotive repair, sales, procurement, or core/material buying, preferably automotive-related.
- High School Diploma/GED required.
- Demonstrated success in face-to-face sales or purchasing negotiations.
- Familiarity with automotive cores, specifically lights (remanufacturing experience a plus).
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport quickly.
- Comfortable working independently and managing a travel-heavy schedule.
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple vendor relationships and transactions.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and basic purchasing or CRM tools.
Company at a glance
BBB, Inc. is the global headquarters and governing body of the Better Business Bureau network, uniting more than 90 local BBB organizations across the United States and Canada, the BBB Institute for Marketplace Trust, and BBB TrustCore. BBB, Inc. establishes the standards, governance framework, technology, and shared operating infrastructure that power one of the world’s most recognized and enduring credibility networks.
Each year, more than 200 million people turn to BBB.org for trusted marketplace intelligence covering more than 5.8 million businesses. More than 380,000 Accredited Businesses commit to and are held accountable under the BBB Standards for Trust. Thousands of professionals embedded in local communities translate those standards into real oversight, dispute resolution, consumer protection, and business credibility every day.
For more than a century, BBB has defined how trust functions between businesses and consumers. Through tools such as BBB Scam Tracker and a steadfast commitment to transparency, ethical conduct, and marketplace integrity, BBB helps prevent fraud, elevate responsible businesses, and protect consumers at scale.
Today, BBB, Inc. is reintroducing BBB to the world through a renewed global brand and BBB TrustCore, its next-generation technology platform. TrustCore unifies the network’s data, systems, and marketplace intelligence into a single operating platform designed to modernize consumer and business experiences while enabling mission-aligned, data-driven services and partnerships.
With unmatched local presence, international coordination, and more than a century of earned credibility, BBB stands uniquely positioned to translate trust into measurable marketplace accountability. As trust becomes the defining currency of the digital economy, BBB is setting the standard for how trust is built, verified, and sustained in the AI era and for the century ahead.
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