Job Description
Job title: Buyer l
Location: College Park, GA 30337
Duration: 6+ months on contract (Possible extension depending upon your performance and client need)
Pay Range: $27- $30 /hr on W2
Job Summary:
Coordinates activities involved with procuring, tracking, and expediting goods and services such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts and supplies at a competitive price, delivery, and quality via the issuance of a purchase order.
Responsibilities:
- Schedules and tracks the material deliveries based upon production schedule and other program requirements.
- Confers with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
- Prepares purchase orders and bid requests.
- Basic negotiation and administration of agreements with suppliers and other representatives within scope of authority.
- Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
- Analyzes price proposals, financial reports and other data and information to determine reasonable prices.
- Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance and inventories.
- Support achievement of department metrics.
- Enters purchase orders into MRP system and issues to supplier via internet, fax or e-mail.
- Maintains purchase order status and follows up on unconfirmed and past due orders plus requirements due in coming weeks.
- Arbitrates claims and resolves complaints generated during performance of purchase order or contract, escalating issues to the Purchasing Manager as appropriate.
- Interacts with Engineering, Planning and Production to ensure any changes in production requirements are flowed down to suppliers.
- Maintains professionalism in developing collaborative relationships with internal customers, partners and suppliers.
- Liaise with planners to control scheduling of parts to ensure stock levels meet demands while achieving site level/corporate financial targets.
- Evaluates defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control, users, vendors and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
- Updates suppliers with engineering changes and drawings.
- Actively manages supplier performance.
- Develops commodity/market knowledge and maintains roster of available supply sources.
- Approves invoices for payment within scope of authority.
- Expedites delivery of goods to users.
Experience: 1-3 years of experience in purchasing is required.
Entry level job with little or no prior relevant work experience
Acquires basic skills to perform routine tasks
Work is prescribed and completed with little autonomy
Works with either close supervision or under clearly defined procedures
Education: College degree is preferred (Preferably a degree in Supply Chain management or related field) or comparable experience.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | College Park, GA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $27 |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills
- Bid Analysisunmatched
- Billingunmatched
- Corporate Financeunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Engineering Drawingunmatched
- Financial Reportingunmatched
- Internet Faxunmatched
- Materials Trackingunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Order Processingunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Procedure Developmentunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Production Scheduleunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Resolve Customer Issuesunmatched
- Sales Managementunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
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