Purchasing Agent

SUMMARY: Coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, rentals, and advertising, for organization by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reviews requisitions. Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
Makes final purchasing decisions based on meeting delivery requirements, customer expectations of items, and cost.

Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid.
Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.

COMPETENCIES:

• Communication Proficiency: Demonstrates effective written and oral communication skills.
• Attention to Detail: Diligently attends to detail and pursues quality in accomplishing tasks. Checks work to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Researching Information: Identifies, collects, and organizes data for analysis and decision making. Knows where and how to access the right data for the assignment.
• Teamwork: Promotes cooperation and commitment within the team to achieve goals and deliverables.
• Time Management/Multitasking: Ability to manage competing priorities effectively, to be resourceful and to use time as a resource. Ability to manage multiple tasks with accuracy in a time sensitive environment.
• Solutions based: Positive attitude and willingness to work outside the box to solve problems.
• Confidentiality regarding sensitive issues.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in business or a related field and minimum of two years of experience; or two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Accounts Payable Understanding: General understanding of the AP world and how Purchasing affects it.
• Language Ability: Ability to effectively communicate and respond to questions from manager, clients, customers, and internal team.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have advanced technical knowledge of and experience with internet research, and advanced abilities in Microsoft Office software including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Trimble/Vista and or Power BI experience preferred but not required.
• Physical Presence: Regular and predictable physical presence in the purchasing office is an essential qualification for this position due to the importance of the team-related aspects of the essential duties, the aggressive timeframes under which the employee will operate, and the need for face-to-face interaction with employees in Purchasing in order to properly perform job-related functions.
• Valid Driver's License
• Ability to travel as needed.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Usual office work conditions. The noise level in the work environment is moderate. Minimum physical exertion.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

Salary: $75,000 - $90,000 per year