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 5 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• A university degree is preferred.
• Experience in lean philosophy and root cause analysis is an asset.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is required; any other language is an asset.

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.

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