The posting
Position: Purchasing Assistant
Number of hours: 40 hours/week
Job duration: 1 month minimum
Schedule: 7:00AM-3:30PM, EST
Tasks required:
- Perform vendor research and selection to enhance profitability, reducing operating costs and boosting efficiency
- Maintain cordial working relationships with vendors and supervising vendor activities
- Sign and review purchasing agreements with vendors, monitoring their performance and renegotiating contracts
- Use quarterly and annual data to determine purchasing needs and performing inventory management
- Manage purchase orders, overseeing shipping schedules and maintaining purchase records
- Work with warehouse staff to compare deliveries with purchase orders to identify discrepancies
- Conduct ongoing market research to identify beneficial purchase agreements and potential vendors
- Other ad hoc tasks that would be assigned
Requirements:
- Proven work experience as a purchasing assistant or relevant role is required
- In-depth knowledge of purchasing functions, inventory and supply management systems
- Working knowledge of Precoro is required
- Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Direct experience with spreadsheet computer applications
- Experience in the woodworking/manufacturing/construction industry is a huge advantage
- Ability to use purchasing software
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
- Proficiency in the English language, both verbal and written
- Self-disciplined and organized; able to consistently perform with limited supervision



