Purchasing Coordinator

Our Paragould facility manufactures a wide range of food packaging solutions and is a leader among food packing companies. We safely produce quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

About the role

The Purchasing Coordinator supports sourcing, purchasing, and replenishment of raw materials, packaging materials, and other assigned categories. This newly created role supports Purchasing and Supply Chain projects, maintains accurate ERP purchasing data, and helps ensure supplier follow-up, inventory availability, and on-time delivery.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase requisitions and purchase orders to ensure materials, supplies, and services are ordered accurately, timely, and in alignment with approved suppliers, pricing, inventory needs, and delivery requirements.
• Monitor open purchase orders, supplier acknowledgements, delivery schedules, backorders, and past-due items to support supplier performance and on-time, in-full delivery.
• Support inventory replenishment by reviewing inventory levels, supplier lead times, usage trends, order status, and material availability to maintain appropriate supply levels.
• Maintain accurate purchasing records in the ERP system, including supplier data, purchase order details, pricing, lead times, item setup support, and other purchasing-related data.
• Collaborate with internal departments to understand material requirements, service needs, timing expectations, and potential supply risks that may impact operations.
• Investigate and support resolution of supplier, receiving, invoice, quantity, pricing, and delivery discrepancies in partnership with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Partner with Quality and suppliers to support resolution of quality concerns, complaints, corrective actions, and documentation requests related to purchased goods and materials.
• Compile, validate, and summarize purchasing, supplier, inventory, pricing, and delivery information to support reporting, performance reviews, and business decision-making.
• Identify and communicate opportunities to improve cost, supplier performance, process efficiency, data accuracy, and service levels; support implementation of approved improvements as assigned.
• Perform purchasing activities in accordance with company policies, approval requirements, safety expectations, and applicable regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Support purchasing-related projects, process changes, system updates, and other departmental initiatives as assigned.
• Provide support for the upcoming SAP implementation, including purchasing data review, process validation, testing support, and user transition activities as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum of three years of experience in purchasing, procurement, supply chain, or a similar role.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field.
• ERP system experience (e.g., SAP or Oracle).

Benefits

Our goal is for each employee and their families to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, ADD, and disability coverage.
• Retirement plans.
• Paid vacation and time off.
• Educational assistance.
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance (eligibility criteria apply).

Benefits may vary by geographic region. Everyone has individual work and personal needs, and we seek to enable the best work environment to help you and the business work together to produce superior results.