Job Description
Job Description
Summary : For our Georgia & Massachusetts warehouses, provide procurement support on departmental spend categories, ensuring competitive cost sourcing of quality goods and services.
Procure parts / products / services to either resell to customers or use in everyday operations. Ensures the most efficient and accurate processing and documentation of transactions, with the overall goal of minimizing the total cost of transactions and meeting inventory goals without impacting service levels.
Normal business hours are 8 : 30am to 5 : 00pm.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned) :
- Manage the day-to-day business relationship with key suppliers through supporting activities including ordering, communication of demand / volume / delivery time changes, issue resolution, sharing of end-user feedback, follow up on backorders, etc.
- Develop a strong understanding and knowledge of local suppliers and capabilities.
- Responsible for tracking and documenting all warranty product returns.
- Manage supplier relationships to ensure continuity of goods and services that meet the quality, service, and price performance standards of the company.
- Working with the Departmental managers to implement and enforce polices that increase spend visibility and meet their product and service expectations.
- Document cross reference of parts between vendors for same / like products as well as link complimentary products across all parts.
- Set and meet cost savings initiatives for domestically procured products.
- Interface with in-house job shop for purchasing raw materials, coordinating secondary processing on parts and tracking completed assemblies.
Qualifications : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education / Experience :
An Associate’s degree is preferred with a minimum of 1-2 Years purchasing / buying experience in a manufacturing environment.