Purchasing Associate
Location: St. Paul, MN (100% Onsite) Duration: 6+ Months Shift Time: 9am to 5pm Pay Range: $25/hr to $30/hr (On W2)
Job Summary
This role will require performing inventory, purchasing, and shipping/receiving activities for an R&D Product Development team working on software and computers. We are looking for inventory, purchasing, and shipping assistance.
Top Skills
- Knowledge of purchasing and inventory management in a process-oriented environment or business would translate to the activities needed for this position.
- Expertise with Excel advanced skills like pivot tables, formulas, referencing, reporting is required.
- Ideally someone familiar with computers - workstations and servers and the components that go inside a computer.
- Familiarity with barcode scanners and inventory management software would be helpful.
- Good writing and reporting skills & organized and able to deliver on-time.
Job Responsibilities
- Plan, perform, and administer purchasing activities to assure that all assigned production parts and materials are delivered within required delivery, quality, compliance, and pricing perimeters.
- Conduct and document procurement activities and negotiations to support prudent buying decisions.
- Maintain ongoing interface with various departments to assure that materials purchased meet requirements at the lowest practical cost.
- Monitor open order reports.
- Take appropriate corrective action on monthly reporting factors.
- Take an active leadership role on assigned projects.
- Frequently required to develop Excel spreadsheets as a visual reporting mechanism to management.
Education
- Associate or Bachelors degree preferred.
Purchasing Associate in st paul at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.