Purchasing Associate

Responsibilities

Purchasing Associates supports the business through inventory planning, purchasing, and supplier coordination while delivering excellent internal and external customer service. This role ensures inventory is optimized to meet service goals, improve turns, and reduce excess stock by leveraging data and supplier performance to issue timely purchase orders. The goal is to drive solutions and success that improve customer satisfaction, maximize customer retention, and increase profitability.

Qualifications

• Typically requires bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or Business-related field, or equivalent experience.
• About two years of experience in purchasing, planning, or inventory management preferred.
• This position requires a highly focused, detail-oriented, analytical results-driven individual that has the ability to work with a variety of analytics tools.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required, with aptitude to learn new computer applications.
• Experience with Eclipse is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and enjoys working in a team environment.

Physical Demand

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee spends significant time sitting, or standing, walking the facility and is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste or smell; and lift up to 50 pounds.

Benefits

• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Safe Harbor 401(k) – 100% employer match up to 5% of base pay and immediate vesting
• Holiday pay – we recognize and pay our employees for 7.5 holidays per year
• Paid Parental Bonding Time
• Employer subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans
• Voluntary long-term disability, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution; Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• Wellbeing program with opportunity to earn reduced medical costs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you, and your family
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee referral bonus program
• Employee service milestone recognition program

Company Values

• Safety: Always prioritizes safety, both at work and at home, while ensuring those who work for you work safely.
• Customer Focused: Take the perspective of those we serve, anticipate their needs, and respond quickly.
• One Team: We win together by collaborating with each other, focusing on the common goal, and leveraging the strengths of the team.
• Own It: Take the initiative, act with a sense of urgency and pride, do things right the first time, and always act with integrity.
• Innovate: Embrace and create change that drives continuous improvement and customer-valued solutions.

Pay Range

$60,000.00 - $65,000.00/Yearly

Shift

Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm