Purchasing Agent
Insero Talent Solutions
- Rochester, NY
- $40,000-50,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Creating a network of sources with multiple vendors, ensuring the Company is purchasing products from the best sources possible pertaining to quality, price, timeliness, and customer specifications.
- Reviewing purchasing requests from various branches and departments, while executing and insuring purchase orders are set up in the system under the budgets, and time frames set per job/purchase.
- Looking for and receiving quotes for products from the supplier network as needed ensuring customer’s specifications are met while maintaining a quote log to execute purchase orders as received by the customer.
- Tracking delivery orders, ensuring timely delivery and expediting orders and following up with supplies as needed.
- Interacting closely with Branch Managers, Project Managers, Designers and field personnel ensuring customer satisfaction and jobs are costed out properly through purchase orders, manual stock sheets or price books.
- Maintaining inventory control consistent with budgets set by the Company while administering warehouse procedures.
- Processing timely labor claims and credits.
- Ensuring shipping and receiving process as it relates to material purchases.
- Processing invoices, ensuring the Company is receiving the right price and the materials and/or services were received.
- May supervise shop personnel pertaining to material inventory, shipping and receiving.
- Associate’s degree is required, BS is preferred.
- 2 or more years of experience in purchasing, preferably within manufacturing or construction.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong customer service and negotiation skills.
- Proficient computer skills and utilizing various software and programs.
- Strong time management, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as taxes, discounts, etc.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.