Purchasing Specialist Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Purchasing Specialist to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- negotiating prices and contracts;
- Negotiating pricing with vendors, helping in lower overall project cost;
- Building and developing key relationships with vendors;
- Working with Marketing, Engineering, and Operations to establish/define reorder points and economic order quantities;
- Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned;
- Supplier visits, location specific;
- Inventory management;
- Documents supplier performance including having a working knowledge of supplier’s organization, contractual agreements and terms;
- Manage any procurement activities including RFPs (request for proposals);
- Work with purchase orders and purchase requisition to order materials, goods and supplies;
- Interact with suppliers on daily basis;
- Assist with training new hires on all systems, processes, policies and procedures;
- Reorganize the lack of PO on invoices and documents and resolving the issues;
- Review inventories and order as required;
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Detail oriented;
- Strong experience with MS Excel, Word and proficiency with MS Outlook and Power Point as well as Adobe Acrobat;
- Noise levels ranging from quiet to extremely loud;
- SAP or other order tracking system experience;
- Mastery of all Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Including V Look up, Power Point Presentations;
- Extensive experience procuring hardware from top tier technology companies;
- Ability to drastically reduce service, operational ad capital expenses;
- Strong MS Excel skills;
- Contract management is one of the most important aspects;
- HS Diploma or equivalent;
- Ability to multi-task and maintain organization;
- Experience with inventory maintenance in an ERP system, preferably Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, Oracle;
- Oracle MRP Experience is strongly desired;
- Purchasing & Product team is set up in cross functional teams, candidate should demonstrate ability to lead and work cross functional teams;
- Experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.