Purchasing Analyst / Supply Chain Analyst
About The Position
Mission Linen Supply is looking for a Purchasing Analyst / Supply Chain Analyst to join our existing team. Mission Linen Supply seeks an individual with strong analytic tendencies and good critical thinking skills to support a wide array of purchasing and supply chain needs, like spend analysis and PO fulfillment metrics, as well as analysis of order trends, freight costs and other details. As our organization expands our e-comm activities and online ordering activities, the Purchasing Analyst will provide support by transforming and visualizing data to provide actionable insights in support of the objectives of the Purchasing department. Purchasing Analyst / Supply Chain Analyst base salary is $20.00 to $27.50 an hour. The starting salary is based on education, experience, other qualifications, and location of assignment. The ideal candidate should have extensive, direct and advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and experience with business intelligence reporting tools. This position reports directly to the Sr. Director of Procurement and partners with Operations, Sales, and IT personnel to create a data-centric culture of continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Excellent Verbal and Written communication, high attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple competing requirements and prioritize conscientiously.
- Experience working with vendor partners to improve digital communications, and solving problems with independent and critical thinking.
- Strong comfort level with Excel, including basic sorting and mathematical formulas including calculating margin and mark-up. Candidates with advanced Excel experience (i.e. PivotTable creation, VLOOKUPs, and other Logical functions) should indicate this in their application.
- Basic understanding of Purchasing and Supply Chain activities: Requisitions, PO creation and closing (life cycle), Receiving, and Discrepancies.
- Successful candidates will also possess the following intrinsic skills: self-starter, meticulous, results driven, able to manage multiple priorities by planning and organizing, effective communicator and able to grasp new concepts and technological tools.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with basic FedEx/UPS/USPS tracking, and/or experience with Freight tracking (domestic and international).
- Experience with eCommerce solutions, like CommerceTools, Shopify, Magento, and Constant.
- Experience with PowerBI and other PowerPlatform Applications, including CoPilot and PowerAutomate.
- Experience creating dashboards, ad hoc reports and other metrics, including merging data from multiple systems.
Responsibilities
- Creates, maintains and supports a variety of Purchasing reports utilizing appropriate system report writing tools.
- Assists in maintenance and updates of Purchasing databases and systems including Pricing, Inventory, Open Orders, Shipment Notices and Invoices from multiple suppliers.
- Identify Orders with Out of Stock Items and prioritize suggestions for substitution within vendor and customer specific standards.
- Work with Accounting teams to resolve cost/price differentials that may cause delays in fulfillment or closure.
- Coordinate with stakeholders (Sales/IT/Marketing) on the monthly review of new stores/suppliers and outstanding issues with a goal towards continuous improvement.
- Validate, sort, and "clean" data from Vendor partners in a usable format for IT utilization/upload.
- Wherever possible, automate and implement technological fixes for high frequency issues.
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- a retirement savings program
- paid time off (sick, holiday, vacation)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Industry
Personal and Laundry Services
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
