Job Description
Job Description:
Support the company’s goals and objectives through proper sourcing, price negotiation, conformance to quality and product specifications, and assurance of on-time delivery.
Duties:
- Statistical and analytical thinking to maneuver in the MRP world for procuring materials.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret quantitative data.
- Attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
- Ability to choose between alternative courses of action.
- Ability to map processes of possible consequences of decisions, to work out the importance of individual factors and to choose the best course of action.
- Negotiates cost, specifications, and timelines with suppliers, ensuring beneficial agreements.
- Possess basic knowledge of supply chain activities, including transformation of natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to the end customer.
- Track and monitor inventory levels to determine what and when to procure materials required to support the manufacturing needs.
- Understand that supply and logistics is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
- Coordinate organization of purchases, scheduling, order placement, delivery, tolerances, and payment to ensure ongoing supply.
- Define, measure and track categories for spending to provide status vs. targeted goals.
- Collect and analyze organization-wide data to support cross-functional decision-making teams.
- Data input & provide updates to system for material & vendor status with regards to lead times, freight and payment terms, standard costing, specifications, and order quantity requirements.
- Communicate with vendors to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
- Maintain procurement records, such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
- Keep abreast of market trends, changes in business practices in the assigned markets, new or altered types of materials entering the market, etc.
- May work with manufacturers or persuade potential vendors to undertake the manufacturing of custom-designed items according to the user’s specific needs and specifications.
- May expedite delivery of goods to users.
- Utilize available computer system resources to carry out analysis to support management’s quest for performance improvement.
- Review and analyze information, forecasts, methods, schedules, systems, processes, and procedures.
- Determine most useful business solutions for the company.
- Recommend alternative solutions to management as to course of action that best meets the organization’s goals.
- Analyze requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing business systems.
- Confer with personnel of organizational departments involved to analyze current operational procedures and identify problems.
- Select the most appropriate analytical technique.
Requirements:
- BA/BS in business or equivalent work experience in related field within a manufacturing environment associated to the consumer-packaged goods industry.
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Proficient in Microsoft Office programs
- Deadline and detail oriented
- SAP knowledge a plus
Job Tags
Work experience placement, Work at office