Purchasing Agent & Inventory Controller

Are you an excellent communicator and negotiator? Do you enjoy analyzing trends and solving problems? Are you skilled at building and maintaining trusted partnerships? If so, we’d like you to join our dedicated team as a 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.

• Analyze product on hand and projected product sales.

• 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 cycle counts, research, and resolve all inventory discrepancies.

• Perform required file maintenance to products, buy lines, price and buy matrices; communicate with Product File Administrator as necessary.

• Negotiate and maintain profitable partnerships with suppliers and vendors.

• Monitor customer returned goods and vendor merchandise returns to ensure timely processing and credit accuracy.

• Maintain market intelligence and report changes in pricing levels and potential problem areas or conditions that could adversely affect the Company’s procurement position.

• 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:

• 1+ years of purchasing and inventory control experience, wholesale distribution experience preferred

• Knowledge of products sold in the Profit Center preferred

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.