Commercial Inventory Purchasing Analyst

Interior Logic Group • Phoenix, AZ

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About The Position

The Commercial Inventory Purchasing Analyst manages purchases and purchasing procedures while maintaining proper multi-branch inventory levels across multiple categories of products. Responsible for the entire life cycle of orders: placing, maintaining, documenting, changing, receiving, canceling, and following up on, while answering questions throughout the life cycle as to status. Product is managed on a Just-in-time basis while assuring that company metrics for Inventory Balance, Aged Inventory, Freight Expenditure and Stock availability are met or exceeded.

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in Purchasing or Inventory Management, inventory analysis, supply chain, purchasing, warehouse operations, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including sorting/filtering, formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis, and formatting.
• Experience working with ERP, inventory management, or purchasing systems; SAP experience is a plus.
• Ability to analyze large amounts of data and identify discrepancies or trends.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with warehouse, purchasing, operations, vendors, and project teams.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong proficiency and accuracy in math.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in construction, building materials, flooring, cabinetry, countertops, or commercial interiors is preferred.
• Demonstrate good judgment in performing job duties while satisfying multiple conflicting priorities that are tied directly to key company metrics
• Strong sense of urgency - ability to react to changing priorities and ability to recognize key priorities and respond appropriately and multi-task while handling large volume of overlapping weekly and on demand activities.
• Requires strong verbal, written and persuasive communication skills with different departments to get/interpret information, bring a positive team-helping approach, work constructively, understand/determine the best match of needs to available options, resolve problems, encourage cooperation, give direction, and escalate where required.
• Ability to initiate requests from different departments and levels for actions and cooperation.

Responsibilities

• Inventory management and purchasing to drive industry-leading customer service and sales growth.
• Manage $2m inventory to meet ILG strategies & sales objectives while maximizing performance on Availability, Freight Cost, Inventory Dollars, and Aged Dollars.
• Purchase & provide products to meet special order product and deadline requirements.
• Consistency of professional, high quality service that supports users’ needs for solutions, information and questions.
• Work collaboratively with other areas on process improvements and teamwork solutions.
• Initiate communication with branch operations and sales at multiple levels to manage, prevent, and eliminate aging and slow-moving merchandise.
• All other job duties as assigned

Benefits

• Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, individual with disabilities, veteran status, gender identity or national origin.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed