Material Buyer - PTS Advance
St. Paul Park, MN
About the Job
Supply Chain Associate/Buyer - Onsite
St. Paul Park, MN - Local Candidates ONLY
Start: Immediately
Contract Length: now - November 2024
Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision
Experience: 1+ year(s) of buyer or procurement related experience, and ideally, local to the surrounding area.
Responsibilities:
- Receives and reviews purchase requisitions for materials and services for completeness and proper level of approval.
- Evaluates competitive bids and quotations against purchase order commitments, maintains documentation as appropriate for all purchases.
- Purchases materials, equipment, and incidental services for assigned areas in best interests of company.
- Ensures transactions are managed in seamless process from order entry through invoice payment.
- Expedites purchase commitments to ensure on time delivery and acceptable performance by suppliers, to meet the needs of business partners.
- Ensures the proper use of tools and systems provided to monitor, verify and implement Supply Chain controls; including: supplier agreements, bidding documents, time and material rates, scope of work, supplier/contractor performance measurements, supplier/contractor qualification and approval and any other documents related to commercial management terms and conditions.
- Utilizes practices such as RFQs, bid analysis, negotiations and partnering to ensure maximum value for expenditures. Seeks new practices and methods to increase value of services.
- Utilizes proficiency in commercial analysis techniques and process improvements to support Supply Chain initiatives and maintain value laden supply relationships. Establishes, maintains, and communicates an understanding of the business partner organization.
- Liaises with other Supply Chain and legal professionals to ensure that contractual terms and conditions are acceptable and serve to minimize risk as needed during the purchasing process.
- Maintains awareness of current market conditions, new products, supply sources for assigned commodities, new technologies, assigned business units and methods that enhance value of purchasing process.
- Identifies and resolves purchase order and invoice discrepancies working in collaboration with Accounts Payable, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure timely goods receipt and payment.
- Performs moderately complex price analysis based on few variables and confers with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
Qualifications:
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree required; preferred majors include Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, and Engineering or related fields.
* Proficiencies: Applicants must be proficient with Microsoft Office 365. Experience with SAP, Ariba, Tableau, and TRACK is a plus.
* Experience: 1+ years of related experience as a buyer or related procurement role.
For immediate consideration, please send your resume to Samantha.Turrubiartes@PTSAdvance.com.
Source : PTS Advance
