Purchaser

National Seating & Mobility•Vancouver, BC

4d•$50,000 - $65,000•Hybrid

About The Position

National Seating & Mobility (NSM) provides complex rehabilitation seating, mobility, and positioning systems across Canada. They specialize in personalized mobility solutions to enhance independence, safety, and comfort for clients with mobility challenges. The Purchaser role is crucial to the client journey, involving day-to-day procurement activities and assisting in the development and implementation of governance and processes for product master data, inventory optimization, and procurement best practices. The ideal candidate is a resourceful problem-solver experienced in evolving purchasing processes.

Requirements

Strong grounding in strategic and proactive procurement principles, such as cost-value balance, margin optimization, and discount-for-volume.
Supplier relationship management.
Transparency and data-driven decisions.
Demonstrated proficiency with P2P cycle.
Proven ability to balance time-sensitive stock requests with maintaining inventory governance and cost-effectiveness.
Experience working cross-functionally with sales, operations, finance, and cross-regional procurement and supply chain team members to create and implement procurement processes and data governance improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

Issue, monitor, and manage purchase orders and inventory transfers, ensuring timely placement, optimizing order aggregation to minimize freight expense, and driving inventory utilization.
Navigate changes to PO delivery timelines or back-orders that may affect fulfillment and client experience.
Become a subject matter expert in purchasing and inventory allocation within the regional ERP system.
Manage and support procurement metric and supplier performance reporting from the applicable ERP.
Provide feedback and evaluation of current and new suppliers to support optimizing supplier performance.
Communicate supplier performance issues, back-orders, price and order form changes, and new product launches with sales and operations partners.
Resolve returns, exceptions, and non-conforming products.
Maintain awareness of inventory at alternate branch store locations to facilitate transfers.
Propose substitutions or alternate preferred suppliers.
Coordinate and manage inbound logistics and cross-border customs.
Support the enablement of procurement efficiency through the utilization of supplier online configuration and order management tools.
Champion the use of supplier online configurators within assigned branches, coordinating and supporting training as needed.
Reconcile invoice/PO pricing inconsistencies, rectifying errors with suppliers and the sourcing/supply chain team.
Create, update, and maintain product master data files with up-to-date prices, tax codes, part numbers, and descriptions.
Approve and complete inventory adjustments in a timely manner.
Ensure vendor, inventory, and PO information within the ERP system is continually up to date, ensuring accuracy and creating or deactivating expired codes.