Purchasing Specialist

Purchasing Specialist

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• One to three years of previous experience purchasing or three to five years in related business experience. Accounting/Book keeping experience is a plus. Direct industry experience is an added plus.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and Outlook.
• Ability to perform math without the use of a calculator and general understanding of business/finance in order to make good decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written English.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Extremely detailed oriented and able to think outside the box.
• Passion for the outdoors and knowledge of outdoor activities, trends, and customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Creates purchase orders and submits them to vendors on a daily basis.
• Ensures dates, quantities and pricing on confirmations and/or invoices matches those on the purchase order.
• Manages vendor shipping performance and assists buyers in evaluating issues and opportunities.
• Tracks purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery and resolve any issues with suppliers, such as delays or discrepancies.
• Maintains PO line level ETA’s and constantly reviews and investigates past due items.
• Assists the Receiving Department in resolving shipment or vendor-related issues.
• Communicates issues with vendors and works to improve performance across the supply chain.
• Assists AP in resolving shortage issues by reviewing all VRA tickets and requesting credit memos when necessary.
• Provides administrative support by maintaining and processing the related paperwork for the buying function and other various duties as needed.
• Alerts proper teams when shipping overages and/or shortages are beyond the acceptable tolerance to resolve the issue quickly.
• Sources product from alternate suppliers as required when specific products are no longer available or backordered from the primary vendor, mostly distribution partners.
• Work closely with vendors to validate and troubleshoot drop ship purchase orders to make sure that the customer orders are shipped within the agreed upon window.
• Track marketplace shipments and returns
• Update marketplace product data to keep products available to sell
• Updates and validates the in-house product data such as status codes, descriptions, and attributes
• Maintain relationships with current suppliers to ensure they deliver products as per agreements.
• Assist the sku setup team as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct industry experience is an added plus.