Job Description
Are you an excellent communicator and negotiator? Do you enjoy analyzing trends and developing strategies? Are you skilled at building and maintaining trusted partnerships? If so, we'd like you to join our dedicated team as a Senior Purchasing Agent and Inventory Controller.
About the Role:
You will:
Be responsible for procuring merchandise for resale and for inventory management.
Enthusiastically negotiate with vendors to obtain the best pricing, delivery, and terms of purchase ensuring optimal order fill rates and customer satisfaction.
Develop and implement long-term strategies for inventory control and purchasing that align with profit center business objectives.
Identify and evaluate trends and best practices in inventory management to enhance purchasing strategies.
Help create and enforce inventory and purchasing policies and procedures to ensure efficiency, consistency, and compliance.
Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with key suppliers and vendors.
Conduct negotiations and manage contracts with suppliers to secure the best possible terms and pricing.
Analyze product on hand and projected product sales.
Mentor teammates on inventory and purchasing procedures, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
Develop and implement contingency plans to ensure business continuity with inventory needs.
Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis to support decision making.
Create, process, and expedite vendor Purchase Orders to maintain desired product mix, optimum shelf quantities and satisfy projected product sales.
Monitor vendor shipments and receipt of merchandise to ensure that they are within acceptable parameters established by the Profit Center Manager.
Meet or exceed the Profit Center targets for fill rates/service levels, in stock rates, annual inventory turns, and slow-moving/devalued/overstock inventory levels.
Perform required file maintenance to products, buy lines, price and buy matrices; communicate with Product File Administrator as necessary.
Successfully complete required safety and compliance training programs as assigned.
Perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.
About You:
4+ years of purchasing and inventory control experience, wholesale distribution experience preferred
Knowledge of products sold in the Profit Center preferred
Resides in one of these states: NY,CT, NJ, MA, PA
Our ideal candidate will also:
Effectively use Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel) to communicate via email, to maintain vendor contact files and appointment calendars, and to analyze vendor purchases and sales data.
Be able to analyze sales and procurement data and understand market trends to make the best purchasing decisions.
Possess excellent verbal communication and negotiation skills.
Be able to build and maintain influential relationships with vendors, customers and co-workers.
Be energetic, self-motivated and able to work independently.
Be able to learn and operate the computer related systems used to create, process and expedite purchase orders, to control inventory, and to produce reports for analysis.
Read, write, speak, and understand English.
Be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | red lion, PA |
| Industry | Wholesale Trade/Import-Export |
| Company Size | 2,500 to 4,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1858 |
| Website | https://hajocacareers.com/ |
Benefits
Flexible Spending Accounts, Retirement / Pension Plans, Life Insurance, Paid Sick Days, Prescription Drug Coverage, Professional Development, 401K
About Company
In 1858, one enterprising individual invested his life savings of $200 to start a business grinding key stops for plumbers in Philadelphia. More than 150 continuous years of service later, that business is known as Hajoca Corporation. Hajoca has a robust history of helping to shape advances in plumbing. But we attribute our success to two simple truths - a unique business philosophy and talented people.
If we seem big, please take a closer look. Our roots run very deep.
Hajoca blends the clout of a large company with the opportunity of a small one. We understand that tastes and styles are different from place to place, so a "one size fits all" approach does not work. Our businesses have the freedom to operate like any local company and our managers conduct themselves with the focus and passion of business owners, right down to the products they carry and the people they hire.
Entrepreneurs welcome...and sought.
Good customer service means quality of work; exceptional customer service means quality of people. Members of our team are enthusiastic, driven to excel and singly steadfast in their commitment to service, integrity and reliability. They're also your neighbors and friends. They understand your unique needs because they've lived in your community for years.
Our locations are called Profit Centers and not branches, reflecting this independence. Our teammates have the opportunity to take home a share of the profits made in their Profit Center. Our decentralized culture gives each Profit Center Manager the same high degree of responsibility, autonomy, and accountability as an owner.
The National Support Centers in Lafayette Hill, PA, and Baton Rouge, LA, are dedicated to enabling the success of our Profit Centers. Teammates at these locations and throughout the US provide services that are essential for our Profit Center Managers to have a playing field on which they can succeed through their own efforts and ideas.
The company will continue to grow and prosper because our fundamental business philosophy works: emphasis on entrepreneurial spirit, expert knowledge, strong incentives for our teammates, and devotion to Hajoca’s proven business principles.
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