Purchasing Specialist at Careers Integrated Resources Inc

Job Title: Purchasing Specialist
Location: King Of Prussia, PA
Duration: 5+ months, possible extension

Shift: 8 am – 5 pm / Mon - Fri

Pay range: $27.00/h on w2.

Job Summary (include Context and Environment)
Provide a high-level overview of the role, level, and Product of responsibilities. The summary should provide a basic understanding of the role that includes 1) “why the job exists?” 2) level, Product of role: geography, revenue, volume, number of sites where applicable and team size, 3) % of travel anticipated.
This position reports to the Procurement Manager, Process and System Support. Responsible to coordinate day to day procurement activities for a major team, ensuring the efficient, accurate, and compliant acquisition of materials within the policies and guidelines established by management.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities with % Breakdown:
Identify the major activities or responsibilities of the job (usually 4 to 6). Using a short phrase name or list each activity; estimate the percentage of time spent on each one. Then describe each activity in detail, and how it is done. Use increments of 10% and higher.

Duties:
• Execute the creation and maintenance of SAP Outline Agreements Maintain to support plants covered under the special project.
• Maintain high level of accuracy while creating and verifying material pricing information to ensure variable margins are not compromised.
• Manage the integrity of company purchases through verification and maintenance of all required purchasing documents; {contracts, vendor set up, pricing, payment terms, etc.}
• Resolve all invoice exceptions. Work directly with suppliers to review/resolve invoice discrepancies for a portfolio of total spend of $1B.
• Ensure all credit notes and rebates are secured and posted.
• Identify suppliers that have repeated exceptions, root cause, and solve problems to reduce number of exceptions.
• Maintain a high level of accuracy on all processes managed for audit purposes.

Minimum Qualifications and Education Required
• Experienced in use of ERPS, SAP.
• Experience in Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivables.
• Experienced in use of Microsoft Office Suite, emphasis on Excel.
• Fluent in Spanish.