Purchasing Agent

Insero Talent Solutions has partnered with a highly reputable and growing commercial contractor to recruit a Purchasing Agent.

Position Summary:

This is a newly created position within the purchasing team and the Purchasing Manager is seeking a self-starting purchasing agent to procure materials and supplies ensuring quality, price and timeliness required by the Company to operate quickly and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Creating a network of sources with multiple vendors, ensuring the Company is purchasing products from the best sources possible pertaining to quality, price, timeliness, and customer specifications.
• Reviewing purchasing requests from various branches and departments, while executing and insuring purchase orders are set up in the system under the budgets, and time frames set per job/purchase.
• Looking for and receiving quotes for products from the supplier network as needed ensuring customer’s specifications are met while maintaining a quote log to execute purchase orders as received by the customer.
• Tracking delivery orders, ensuring timely delivery and expediting orders and following up with supplies as needed.
• Interacting closely with Branch Managers, Project Managers, Designers and field personnel ensuring customer satisfaction and jobs are costed out properly through purchase orders, manual stock sheets or price books.
• Maintaining inventory control consistent with budgets set by the Company while administering warehouse procedures.
• Processing timely labor claims and credits.
• Ensuring shipping and receiving process as it relates to material purchases.
• Processing invoices, ensuring the Company is receiving the right price and the materials and/or services were received.
• May supervise shop personnel pertaining to material inventory, shipping and receiving.

Requirements:

• Associate’s degree is required, BS is preferred.
• 2 or more years of experience in purchasing, preferably within manufacturing or construction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong customer service and negotiation skills.
• Proficient computer skills and utilizing various software and programs.
• Strong time management, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as taxes, discounts, etc.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.