Purchasing Coordinator II

Vertiv•Edinboro, PA

About The Position

In this role you will be responsible for controlling and coordinating the company’s service purchasing, inventory and logistics. The inventory aspect revolves primarily around supervision of supply, storage and accessibility of items in order to ensure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply, where the logistics aspect involves the integration of information, transportation, material handling, and packing between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of our customers. You will also proactively coordinate and deliver the requirements of the purchasing team.

Requirements

Experience of a similar inventory/warehouse/logistics background.
Require High School Diploma

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of basic planning, forecasting and stock projection principles.
Awareness of warehouse and logistic processes and procedures.
Strong focus on customer satisfaction.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
Excellent written and verbal communications.
Commercially astute with good negotiation skills.
Ability to successfully interface with various departments and personnel in potentially stressful situations.
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

Responsibilities

To ensure the ongoing & timely communication with key internal departments.
To collect and present qualitative and accurate measurements of our inventory holdings, offering clear visibility to the business.
To control the timely return of parts to suppliers.
To control our returns to factory & third party’s warehouse.
To assist with monitoring our logistics business partners/solutions, both in terms of performance and cost.
To raise Purchase Orders in a timely manner, updating the system SRs as necessary.
To assist with our cost reduction activities for process improvements, materials & other supply functions, tracking raw material costs and market trends.
To aid with reporting on supplier performance, on measurement criteria in accordance with business requirements.
To assist with ensuring that all our suppliers, contractors and subcontractors are vetted, approved and appropriate for use.
To assist where possible to minimize gas & electricity consumption, reduce landfill waste and incur no major environmental events.