Commercial Inventory Purchasing Analyst

About the role

Looking to build your career and design your future? You have come to the right place. The Commercial Inventory Purchasing Analyst manages purchases and purchasing procedures while maintaining proper multi-branch inventory levels across multiple categories of products. Responsible for the entire life cycle of orders: placing, maintaining, documenting, changing, receiving, canceling, and following up on, while answering questions throughout the life cycle as to status. Product is managed on a Just-in-time basis while assuring that company metrics for Inventory Balance, Aged Inventory, Freight Expenditure and Stock availability are met or exceeded.

Responsibilities

• Inventory management and purchasing to drive industry-leading customer service and sales growth.
• Manage $2m inventory to meet ILG strategies & sales objectives while maximizing performance on Availability, Freight Cost, Inventory Dollars, and Aged Dollars.
• Purchase & provide products to meet special order product and deadline requirements.
• Consistency of professional, high quality service that supports users’ needs for solutions, information and questions.
• Work collaboratively with other areas on process improvements and teamwork solutions.
• Initiate communication with branch operations and sales at multiple levels to manage, prevent, and eliminate aging and slow-moving merchandise.
• All other job duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in Purchasing or Inventory Management, inventory analysis, supply chain, purchasing, warehouse operations, or a related field.
• Strong analytical