Description

POSITION OBJECTIVE:

Responsible for acquiring materials and documents to fulfill requests for purchases, including preparing purchase orders and handling inquiries about orders. Follows through with purchase from order placement to fulfillment and ensures order arrives undamaged and on time. Ordering of all Emblems.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

--Examining departmental purchase requisitions for completeness and accuracy necessary to support the buying process

--Seeing that POs are issued, shipped, and received on a timely basis

--Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations.

--Contact suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.

--Maintain knowledge of all organizational and governmental rules affecting purchases

--Various Ad-hoc requests supporting the Center Led Procurement process

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

--Acute sense of urgency, excellent customer service skills and demeanor

--Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

--Detail oriented

--Strong command of Microsoft Word and Excel; MS Access a plus

--Knowledge of purchasing practices and procedures

EDUCATION:

--Supply Chain Management, Logistics, and Business Administration.

EXPERIENCE:

--Experienced with supplier management

--The position would require 0-2 years of experience

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)