Purchasing Specialist

About the Role

We are seeking a Purchasing Specialist to serve as a key link between purchasing business processes and system solutions. This onsite role in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, involves project work related to training, tracking, and building a bridge for business users during recent system transitions and migrations for purchasing systems solutions, business processes, intelligence, and compliance. The standard expectation is onsite work in the office 5 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key link between purchasing business processes and system solutions.
• Collaborate with business representatives to ensure optimal system solutions and maintain end-to-end processes.
• Develop analytical tools and new reporting solutions.
• Create, lead, and follow up on the development and implementation of new Change Requests, including training sessions and materials.
• Perform reliability checks, data integrity, and metrics.
• Support purchasing team members with day-to-day purchasing systems issues and establish guidelines.
• Collect, visualize, and analyze data to identify opportunities or problems.
• Extract and structure data using specialized analytic tools.
• Build data models, standard reports, and tools for the user community.
• Gather and extract data from various sources, including databases.
• Ensure data accuracy, completeness, and integrity during the extraction process.
• Develop interactive dashboards using Power BI or similar tools.
• Design and implement data models to support analysis and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Maintain documentation of data sources, transformations, and processes.
• Manage and execute projects, including timelines and deliverables.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience as an SAP user and with Office 365.
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Power BI and Power Automate.
• Agile Project Management and supply chain experience.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications

• A university degree is preferred.
• Experience in lean philosophy and root cause analysis is an asset.
• Knowledge of any other language is an asset.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan.
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• On-demand training program and access to certification prep, technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure.
• Certification discounts and perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA.
• Dedicated customer service team for benefits and resources.
• Access to a certified Career Coach.