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Stephen Gould Corporation•Itasca, IL

15d•Hybrid

About The Position

What makes Stephen Gould Exceptional. Founded through a passion for entrepreneurship, our success is due to the ingenuity and tenacity of our extraordinary teams, bringing people and ideas together. With Stephen Gould, everything is within reach including an exciting career opportunity. We want you to join our team and build on our incredible 80-years of excellence. Stephen Gould looks for people that want to design and develop exciting solutions for a variety of engaged and passionate clients across the globe. With headquarters in Madison, New Jersey, 40 locations throughout the U.S and operations in six countries outside the U.S, we have grown tremendously while maintaining staying true to our 5 Principles: Stephen Gould - 5 Principals Values and behaviors we look for: Strive for excellence , treat mistakes as opportunities for learning and growth . Have resilience and drive with accountability and responsibility when something doesn’t go as planned. Embrace change and be nimble though the dynamic and evolving environments . Nurture the connections you make, bolster your network with reliable and innovative ideas

Requirements

Associate degree in Business or related discipline + 2 years of experience required.
Communication, detail orientation, multitask oriented, accountability, self-motivation, and time management are key to success.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business or related discipline highly preferred.
High Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and virtual communication and collaboration tools – such as Microsoft Teams, Webex and Zoom highly preferred.
Bilingual English/Spanish highly preferred.
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system knowledge for core supply chain, manufacturing, services, financial and other processes of an organization highly preferred.
Ideally experience in a corporate sales and service environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage supplies needed for client product and business portfolios (orders).
Administer the generation of purchase orders.
Ensure supply orders are processed timely.
Work with schedulers and Customer Service Specialists to ensure supplies needed to fulfill orders are on hand.
If supplies are not on hand, work with suppliers to ensure supplies are ordered and tracked.
Support an innovative business and product solutions including, but not limited to processing and entering specs into our ERP.
Provide support through the processing of daily transactions that support logistics of supplies critical to support the sales of Stephen Gould offerings.
Generate purchase orders, maintain purchase orders and price lists.
Update schedulers and customer service specialists on supply status.
Communicate with suppliers, account coordinators and schedulers.
Interact with sales agents, project managers, branch and corporate partners and warehouse personnel.
Perform ad hoc reporting and ensure purchasing and supplier data is up to date.
Track down purchases making sure you know where product is going and when it will arrive.
Receive, process and place supply orders including scheduling shipment of goods via land, air and or sea.
Complete ad hoc reporting and data entry as needed.
Capture all supporting documentation for orders included but not limited to freight invoices and inventory management documents within the ERP system (Epicor).
Work directly with customer service specialists, schedulers and sales teams within the Sales Department.