Researches and evaluates materials, components, vendors, costs, quality, specifications, availability, and lead times. Maintains purchasing information, enters data into proprietary software, supports purchase order preparation, generates quotes and proposals, and communicates with suppliers, manufacturers, purchasers, and account management. Prioritizes order requests and ensures supply commitments meet business needs.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Job Summary
The Procurement Specialist is a crucial resource for researching and facilitating the practical ordering of products and services and ensuring that supply commitments and business needs are met. They will support a variety of employees within the organization. This role will help to clarify requirements and evaluate and assist with determining suppliers. They will generate and format quotes as needed to meet customer requirements.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Learn to evaluate material order content and applications; determine if there are any missing or incorrect components needs.
- Compare materials and components on cost, quality, specifications, availability, and lead time with vendors and manufacturers.
- Familiarize themself with active approved vendors and identify new potential vendors.
- Accurate data entry into our proprietary software.
- Provide Purchasers the accurate information for placing orders
- Generate proposals and submit to account management for submission to customers (As Needed)
- Able to communicate with the purchasing team and various suppliers and manufacturers effectively and decisively.
- Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.
Desired Skills, Certifications, and Education
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced department and be able to prioritize order requests.
- Knowledge of creating and maintaining purchase orders and quotes.
- Extreme attention to detail, organizational and robust judgment skills
- Use of analytical abilities to problem solve and anticipate departmental requirements
- Possess a strong proficiency in computers, including an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Minimum of one year of clerical, audit, secretarial, purchasing, or inventory control experience or comparable time in college, trade, or business school
- Preferred: A background in either HVAC, Refrigeration, Inventory, or Parts Ordering
- Purchasing: 3 years minimum requirement
- Be an honest team player, growth-oriented, and able to do whatever it takes; safely!
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions
- Regularly required to sit, stand, and walk; occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds; noise level is usually moderate.
- All employees may be required to visit a customer site and complete a ride along with a field technician.
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