Purchasing Coordinator
DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.
Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.
We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.
The Purchasing Coordinator is part of our global purchasing team that is responsible for managing the full procurement lifecycle across a wide variety of assets, with a heavy emphasis on technology products. In this role, you’ll collaborate with the Purchasing and Logistics teams on placing orders, order follow up and managing our Mobile Device program for all of North America.
What you’ll do in this role:
- Facilitate the complete requisition approval process, including application of our cost allocation methodologies for tangible items
- Lead mobile wireless management for all of our North American offices
- Procure all of the firm’s external training and conferences for individual employees
- Place stock reorders and backfills for our most used technology consumables
- Work closely with the Logistics teams on order follow up and ETA updates
- Reconcile monthly credit card purchases
- Assist with shipping invoice allocation and control
- Build and manage vendor relationships
- Negotiate with vendors to get the best value for the firm
- Manage assets / inventory and facilitate repairs, maintenance, or auctions for used products
- Provide efficient and accurate solutions to client inquiries
Required Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 1 year of purchasing or sales experience (in IT or Telecom related discipline would be an asset)
- Experience in negotiation and vendor management (building and maintaining vendor relationships)
- Have excellent knowledge of MS office suite, collaboration tools and web-based tools
- Are resourceful and have a proven track record for developing solid supplier relationships
- Experience with applications such as JIRA, Wrike etc. is very valuable
- Knowledge in the area of electronics and an aptitude for learning new technologies
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Foster a rapid procurement process and continually identify opportunities to improve
- Unafraid to challenge consensus, ask questions and demonstrate ownership
- Intelligence and creative thinking are celebrated and vital assets
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