MRO Purchasing & Inventory Specialist

Henkel group • Bowling Green, KY

2d • $21 - $24 • Onsite

About The Position

This position is with our Consumer Brands business unit – where we empower our employees to bring the best Laundry & Home Care and Hair products to people around the world. At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow. Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.

Requirements

• Strong cross-functional communication skills to support maintenance and production execution and inventory control.
• Ability to independently analyze and resolve conflicts, material constraints, and operational issues and implement proactive solutions.
• High attention to detail in SAP data management, inventory tracking, and reporting.
• Ability to work independently in a structured environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Solid understanding of maintenance processes, stock movements.
• Experience with SAP and Microsoft Office Excel, for purchasing, inventory, and material management.
• Must be a team player, excellent analytical skills, and strong organizational skills with high attention to detail with the ability to accurately manage and analyze large volumes of data.

Responsibilities

• Verify accuracy of purchase requisitions and accurately place purchase orders, such as OTP (one-time-purchases), limits, internal order-linked, expedited, and services.
• Communicate with supplies for RFQs (request for quotes), ETA, expediting, and delivery discrepancies. Update the reorder report and Open PO tracker accordingly.
• Communicate with requestor of the PO placement and delivery; keeping them informed of any supplier delays, obsolescence, or substitutions.
• Verify accuracy and approve invoice payments; communicate with AP as necessary.
• Obtain and file all relevant documentation according to document retention policies.
• Coordinate with Material Planners to address constraints and support on-time order fulfillment.
• Identify and resolve purchase order discrepancies, material shortages, and capacity issues with cross-functional teams.
• Perform routine stock cycle counts to maintain accurate inventory levels.
• Support SAP data maintenance, process improvements.
• Communicate production updates, schedule changes, and constraints to production and key stakeholders.
• Investigate outages, process goods issued to cost centers, perform RTS (return-to-stock) transactions in SAP.
• Monitor make-in-house material; perform physical and systematic inventory adjustments.
• Participate in daily cycle counting and year-end full inventory.
• Perform all relevant transactions in SAP for reconciliation.
• Check repair cart daily; retrieve and prep material for shipment.
• Communicate with internal maintenance repair personnel and with external repair suppliers.
• Notify vendor and obtain RMA; tag, measure, weigh and package material.
• Complete all proper documentation (out-for-repair forms, carrier shipping forms); transport material to Logistics.
• Place repair POs accordingly and/or execute inventory adjustments as needed.
• Update repair log and repair/warranty tracker.
• Download daily TBM (Time-Based- Maintenance) and HYG (hygiene) work order requests report.
• Update daily WO tracker utilizing SAP and various reports such as Vendor-Master, Stock Report, and Open PO Report.
• Determine availability of requested material to fulfil kits; pick and pack material; perform goods-issue movement in SAP; stage kit accordingly, and update location in SAP and daily tracker.
• Follow strict guidelines for the sanitization and packaging.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Work-Life Balance: Paid time off including sick time, vacation time and holiday time
• Financial: 401k matching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
• Family Support: 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
• Career Growth: skill development programs, promotional opportunities and tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

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