Purchasing Specialist

Purchasing Specialist

Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (Onsite)

Role Overview

We are seeking a Purchasing Specialist for a role focused on being a key link between purchasing business processes and system solutions. This position involves project work related to training, tracking, and building a bridge for business users during recent system transitions and migrations for purchasing systems solutions, business processes, intelligence, and compliance. The standard expectation is onsite work in the office five days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a key link between purchasing business processes and system solutions.
• Collaborate with business representatives to ensure optimal system solutions and maintain end-to-end processes.
• Develop analytical tools and new reporting solutions.
• Create, lead, and follow up on the development and implementation of new Change Requests, including training sessions and materials.
• Perform reliability checks, data integrity, and metrics.
• Support purchasing team members with day-to-day purchasing systems issues and establish guidelines.
• Collect, visualize, and analyze data to identify opportunities or problems.
• Extract and structure data using specialized analytic tools.
• Build data models, standard reports, and tools for the user community.
• Gather and extract data from various sources, including databases.
• Ensure data accuracy, completeness, and integrity during the extraction process.
• Develop interactive dashboards using Power BI or similar tools.
• Design and implement data models to support analysis and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Maintain documentation of data sources, transformations, and processes.
• Manage and execute projects, including timelines and deliverables.

Required Qualifications

• Technical Skills: Hands-on experience as an SAP user and with Office 365, as well as experience with data analysis tools such as Power BI and Power Automate.
• Experience: Agile Project Management and supply chain experience.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.