Associate Purchasing Specialist

Associate Purchasing Specialist

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Business Administration or other related field with 1+ years of purchasing or similar administrative experience
• High School Diploma and 3+ of purchasing or similar administrative experience
• Strong team player
• Self-motivated and work under pressure to balance conflicting deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Basic experience with MS Office: Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Effective communicator and problem solver
• Highly organized
• Ability to listen and understand the customer requirements
• Time management and planning
• Ability to change in a fast-moving environment
• Professional attitude

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all orders are accurately processed and in a timely manner for all assigned customer business groups.
• Assist in the completion of work instructions and SOP’s to deliver a standardized level of support
• Support training of new team members
• Resolve any missing PO numbers and follow up on any back orders.
• Closely monitor all invoices and process within the agreed time frame. This will include invoice discrepancies/credit note processing/process documents/goods receipting and approve/reject/code invoices.
• Responsibility to challenge cost saving/cost avoidance & obtain bulk quotes to maximize savings, pricing & stock availability.
• Capture cost savings and cost avoidance to align with strategic sourcing and account savings initiatives
• Provide cross regional support working agile as required
• Continuous improvement of the purchasing team ways of working
• Ensure users/customers are kept informed of progression & status of their orders.
• Use agreed procurement systems to process customer orders.
• Log any cost saving/avoidance and report any anomalies. Keep all orders directed to customer preferred suppliers. Follow customer procedures and challenge users going outside this policy.
• Single point of contact for all purchasing enquiries.
• Comply with all site Health & Safety regulations.
• Provide relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to the PerkinElmer management team on the procurement service provided to the customer groups.
• Identify opportunities to give time back to science and capture evidence to align with account initiatives
• Maintain training and compliance in areas of health and safety, security, environmental and operational aspects of daily activities in the working environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior purchasing experience in a customer-facing scientific environment.
• Prior experience working with vendor representatives
• Strong IT and Analytical Skills
• Knowledge of databases and purchase ordering systems
• Bachelor Degree