Purchasing Agent & Inventory Controller

Description

• Meet or exceed the Profit Center targets for fill rates/service levels, in stock rates, annual inventory turns, and slow-moving/devalued/overstock inventory levels.
• Create, process, and expedite vendor Purchase Orders to maintain desired product mix, optimum shelf quantities, and satisfy projected product sales.
• Effectively use Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel) to communicate via email, to maintain vendor contact files and appointment calendars, and to analyze vendor purchases and sales data.
• Be responsible for procuring merchandise for resale, and for inventory management.
• Negotiate and maintain profitable partnerships with suppliers and vendors.
• Perform required file maintenance to products, buy lines, price and buy matrices; communicate with Product File Administrator as necessary.
• Monitor vendor shipments and receipt of merchandise to ensure that they are within acceptable parameters established by the Profit Center Manager.
• Analyze product on hand and projected product sales.
• Maintain market intelligence and report changes in pricing levels and potential problem areas or conditions that could adversely affect the Company's procurement position.
• Successfully complete required safety and compliance training programs as assigned.
• Monitor customer returned goods and vendor merchandise returns to ensure timely processing and credit accuracy.
• Enthusiastically negotiate with vendors to obtain the best pricing, delivery, and terms of purchase ensuring optimal order fill rates and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Knowledge of plumbingproducts preferred
• Be able to build and maintain influential relationships with vendors, customers and co-workers.
• Be energetic, self-motivated and able to work independently.
• 1+ years of purchasing and inventory control experience in wholesale distribution
• Be able to learn and operate the computer related systems used to create, process and expedite purchase orders, to control inventory, and to produce reports for analysis.
• Possess excellent verbal communication and negotiation skills.
• Read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Possess a proper and valid driver's license
• Be able to analyze sales and procurement data and understand market trends to make the best purchasing decisions.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance