Purchasing Assistant
$52k - $62.4kElwood Staffing
Purchasing Assistant
Launch your supply chain career with this growth minded Salt Lake City Purchasing Assistant opportunity!
What's in it for you?
- Medical/Vision/Dental
- Holiday Pay
- 401k
- And More!
Purchasing Assistant Details:
- Direct Hire position
- $ 52,000.00 to $ 62,400.00 / annually
- First Shift
- Work at the center of a multi-million-dollar purchasing operation, using product, sales, and inventory data to support smart buying decisions.
- Analyze large product and sales data sets to identify trends, forecast needs, and translate findings into what should be purchased and when.
- Calculate order quantities, pallet counts, and truckload optimization using product dimensions, sales history, and branch needs.
- Maintain purchase orders, product information, and pricing data accurately in the ERP system.
- Investigate errors, cost drivers, data trends, and order discrepancies rather than simply processing transactions.
- Communicate with vendors, customers, and internal teams to confirm availability, pricing, timelines, order status, and shipment details.
- Grow into a more strategic purchasing role over time by learning the business, improving processes, and building strong product knowledge.
Purchasing Assistant Qualifications:
- Strong Excel skills, including comfort with pivot tables, lookups, and building analysis from large data sets.
- Quantitative and analytical thinker who can reason through numbers and turn data into a clear business answer.
- Able to complete practical Excel-based tasks such as forecasting product needs from monthly sales data and calculating pallet or truckload capacity from product dimensions.
- Detail oriented at volume, with the ability to stay accurate while working through large amounts of purchasing, product, and pricing data quickly.
- Capable of learning complicated, multi-step purchasing processes and executing them reliably.
- Positive, growth-minded, and interested in building a long-term career in purchasing, inventory, supply chain, or operations.
- Experience with purchasing, inventory, supply chain, data analysis, ERP systems, order-management systems, or customer/vendor communication is preferred.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and celebrate diversity at all levels of our organization.
Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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