Join My Pet Chicken, a family-owned leader in the backyard chicken industry, as our Purchasing Specialist. You'll keep a busy e-commerce catalog stocked and healthy, working with suppliers across the country and around the world, and there is always something new to figure out: a product to research, a better price to find, a smarter way to buy. It's a great fit for someone who enjoys learning and growing their skills, and who takes pride in getting details right. If you're looking for a role that offers flexibility, autonomy, and real responsibility in a small business, we welcome you to apply!
We're currently able to hire in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. If you live outside those states, we can't move your application forward.
Why Join Us:
- Remote Work Flexibility: Embrace the convenience and comfort of working 100% remotely, allowing you to say goodbye to commuting.
- A Fun Industry: Backyard chickens are a joyful, rewarding hobby, and they're the focus of everything we do. If you already keep chickens, or think you might like to, you'll fit right in.
- Positive, Supportive Culture: We're a fun-loving team in a small, family-owned business. Your work is visible, your teammates back you up, and this is not a typical corporate work environment.
- Clear Ownership: After onboarding, you'll own the routine purchasing workflow and be expected to keep open work moving without repeated reminders.
- Impactful Contribution: Keep our products in stock and our inventory dollars working. When you do this job well, the whole company feels it.
- Modern Tools: You'll work alongside AI tools daily. Our forecasting software drafts reorder recommendations, and you verify them before orders go out.
Role Overview:
The majority of this job, especially at the start, is routine purchasing execution done well: building purchase orders and recording receipts, keeping records accurate, checking reorder recommendations, and following up with suppliers until questions are closed. It's detail work, some of it repetitive, and it matters. Our software, suppliers, and fulfillment channels change often, so there is no single playbook to follow: you'll need to adapt when things change without losing accuracy or leaving threads open. If you need the process to stay the same month to month, this isn't your job. Alongside the core work, you'll own defined sourcing problems, researching options and bringing a recommendation. The owner handles negotiations and major commitments; your job is to bring the facts and a point of view. Hours flex with our seasons, and you'll work with a supportive, fun team that likes getting things right.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the purchase-order cycle end to end in Finale, our inventory system: create, issue, update, receive, and close POs, keep supplier item numbers, costs, invoices, and receiving records current, and handle builds and stock transfers so inventory lands in the right location.
- Verify our forecasting software's reorder recommendations before any order goes out: check demand, seasonality, lead times, minimum order quantities, and what's already in transit.
- Monitor vendor price changes, keep costs current in our systems, and flag increases that affect margins for review.
- Follow up with suppliers until things are resolved: by email, by phone, and again if needed. When a vendor goes quiet, you close the loop or escalate with a recommendation.
- Review a vendor's full catalog when building a PO and surface sensible top-ups.
- Verify PO receipts against what the warehouse actually received, and drive inbound discrepancies to resolution.
- Coordinate inbound freight and delivery timing, from choosing cost-effective shipping methods to working with our customs broker on imported orders.
- Watch turnover, shelf life, and slow-moving inventory, and bring recommendations before product ages out.
- Keep teammates informed on product and order status: back-in-stock and discontinued updates, inbound shipments, and the product details our fulfillment and marketing teams need to do their jobs.
- Keep deadlines, recurring checks, and next actions visible in ClickUp, and raise risks before a stockout or price change becomes irreversible. Bring the problem, the evidence, your options, and a recommendation.
- Own a sourcing project through to the recommendation stage. Current examples include finding filler SKUs to round out truckload orders and consolidating overlapping supplier lines.
Candidate Profile:
- Hands-on experience with purchasing, inventory, operational ordering, or closely related work is preferred but not required. We care more about what you personally owned and can demonstrate than your title or number of years. The closest match is broad scope in a small, privately-owned business: ordering, records, vendor follow-up, and inventory decisions that were yours to get right, whether that was a store, a restaurant, a clinic, a construction office, a farm, or a business you ran yourself.
- Strong attention to detail, with a track record of keeping records accurate and following through on open threads.
- Resourceful: you research answers yourself before handing a problem back, and you bring options rather than open questions.
- Comfortable with spreadsheets and ready to learn our systems (Finale, ClickUp, Google Workspace). Comfortable working with AI tools, or genuinely willing to learn; you'll use them daily.
- You naturally compare options before a purchase or an operational decision: weighing quality against price, counting shipping and other costs in the real total, and recognizing when the best move is to wait or walk away.
- Reliable home internet connection and personal computer hardware for remote work.
- Experience with poultry and backyard chickens is highly valued, but not required, aligning with our industry passion.
- Military logistics or supply background is a plus, and the fully remote setup works well for military spouses.
- Seeking a candidate who embodies our core values of Care & Cooperation, Enthusiasm, and Virtue, and who can integrate these values into their work and interactions with the team.
If your background doesn't match this list but you're confident you can do this work, apply anyway and use the application questions to show it. We read every application.
What We Offer:
- Pay: starting at $18 per hour. The final offer will reflect demonstrated purchasing and sourcing capability.
- Flexible working hours: 15-25 hours per week to start. More hours, potentially up to full-time, may become available as the role and business needs grow, but they are not guaranteed.
- Employee discount for your backyard chicken passion.
- As a part-time hourly role, this position does not include health insurance or other benefits.
My Pet Chicken Core Values:
At My Pet Chicken, our core values serve as guiding principles that shape our company culture and influence how we hire, evaluate, promote, and support our employees. We believe that when our team members share these values, it fosters a harmonious and thriving work environment. If you resonate with our core values and believe in their importance, you will find a seamless integration into our team. However, we understand that every individual has unique values, and if you feel that there might be a mismatch between your personal values and ours, we encourage you to explore workplace cultures that better align with your values. Our goal is to cultivate a work environment where everyone can thrive and feel genuinely fulfilled.
Care & Cooperation: We care for our customers, our co-workers, and our flocks. We are friendly, fun, and eager to help.
Enthusiasm: We strive for excellence and aim to master the knowledge and skills vital to our work. We are active in helping Henlay and My Pet Chicken continue to grow and thrive.
Virtue: Beyond honesty, we show kindness, goodness, and self-control. We can be counted on to do the right thing even when no one is watching.
Unlike our company values, each employee is not required to share the same personal passion as the company owner. As the driving force for the owner, we do want to communicate our company's purpose to all potential applicants.
My Pet Chicken Passion:
To honor and glorify God, through attitude and action, serving as a positive light for our employees, our customers, and our community.
How to Apply:
Ready to join a team that values independence, follow-through, and a shared passion for the backyard chicken market? Apply directly through this Indeed posting. Please answer all screening questions and attach your resume.
Join Our Flock:
At My Pet Chicken, we're more than just a business, we're a family. This role offers the chance to keep a growing e-commerce business stocked and running smoothly, all while enjoying the flexibility and joy of working in a field that aligns with your interests. Apply now and become part of our journey in the backyard chicken market!
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: From $18.00 per hour
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
- This role needs 15-25 hours per week. Can you commit to that range?
- Some of the work requires being reachable during normal business hours, roughly 9am-5pm Eastern, Monday through Friday, for supplier calls and coordination. Can you reliably be available for a few hours on most weekdays in that window?
- This role starts at $18/hour and does not include health insurance or other benefits. Do you want to continue with that understanding?
- Do you have a reliable home internet connection and your own computer for remote work?
- Describe the widest-scope buying or ordering responsibility you've personally owned. Which parts of the process were yours to get right (ordering, records, supplier follow-up, inventory decisions), and what happened when something went wrong? If you haven't owned buying or ordering, use the closest comparable operational responsibility you've owned involving records, deadlines, outside parties, or decisions.
- Tell us about a recent purchase, project, or operational decision where you compared multiple options. What did you compare, what costs or tradeoffs mattered, and what made you buy, wait, or walk away?
- Tell us about a time a system, supplier, or process you relied on changed underneath you. What did you do in the first week, and how did you keep your records and open work from slipping?
- Describe a time you had to get something resolved through a person or company that wasn't responding. What did you actually do, step by step, and how did it end?
- This role is 15-25 hours per week at the pay listed, and it may stay that size. What makes that a durable fit for you over the next two years?
- You're welcome to use AI tools to help with this application. If you did, list which tools you used and how. What matters is that your answers are accurate and reflect your own judgment.
- Do you keep backyard chickens now, or have you in the past? If so, tell us a bit about your setup and experience. It's not required for the role, but it's a plus.
Work Location: Remote
