Purchasing Specialist
Purchasing Specialist
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Job Description
The Purchasing Specialist operates as an intermediary coordinating and facilitating the successful purchase of all material needs (OEM and Raw) to ensure production schedule fulfillment and order on time delivery. The position location is in-person at our Eden NC manufacturing facility.
Now is an exciting time to join our team - a team dedicated to saving lives!!!
Responsibilities:
- Regularly engage with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of purchased items
- Creation of purchase orders for needed materials goods and services
- Issuing purchase orders to appropriate suppliers
- Manage purchase order lines with key focus on maintaining up to date information and expected delivery date
- Monitor reports to identify orders with specific requirements and proactively engage with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure purchase order compliance
- Serve as a point of contact for all purchase order information
- Monitor and influence on time delivery based on supplier scorecards
- Manage email traffic and data entry for the procurement team
- Manage Item cards and supplier price lists
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree preferred
- Purchasing experience in a manufacturing setting preferred
- 2 years experience with purchase order management within and ERP system
- Practical understanding of negotiation and pricing
- Advanced experience in Microsoft Office Programs to include but not limited to: Excel Word Outlook
- Microsoft PowerBi experience preferred
Physical Demands:
- Required to sit for long period of time; infrequent light physical effort required.
- Occasionally lifting up to 25 lbs.
As a federal Contractor Armor Express abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a) 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race color religion creed age marital status sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin citizenship status or any other status protected by state or local law and compensation inquiries discussions or disclosures. Moreover these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race color religion creed age marital status sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin citizenship status protected veteran status disability or any other status protected by state or local law and compensation inquiries discussions or disclosures.
Qualified individuals with a disability have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. Please contact Human Resources at for more information.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
