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Purchasing Manager
All, Any · ManufacturingWork from your home office for a company that specializes in the manufacture and distribution of a variety of municipal waterworks products – pipes/valves and fittings. Dynamic and entrepreneurial group.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Responsibilities
- Consumable sourcing to optimize purchased goods savings
- Vendor negotiation and relationships /tactful communication ability
- Purchased goods price sourcing and comparison
- Maximizing vendor paid freight and knowledge of shipping costs and options (LTL, FTL, Rail, Air etc.)
- Ascertaining vendor lead times to pass on to our sales team for furtherance to customers
- Following up on supplier back orders
- Creating purchase orders
- Receiving goods
- Updating vendor pricing
- Knowledge of billing cycles/terms to optimize purchasing/payables
Qualifications
- Experience in SAGE 50 Quantum Accounting or similar software, specifically
- Good proficiency in Excel, Word, Teams, and Outlook required
- Knowledge of waterworks products an asset – pipes & fittings
- Good analytical skills for determining optimal vendors
- Good judgment and fiscally responsible
- Focused on cost savings for the company at every step
- Strong attention to detail
- Highly organized, adaptable, & efficient.
- Innovative and creative
- Ability to work in an intense, fast paced environment
- Ability to follow direction, work independently and/or in teams
- Understanding of foreign exchange transaction in both US$ and EUROS