Shared Purchasing Coordinator

Winsupply • Moraine, OH

3d

About The Position

Winsupply Sourcing Services (WSS) operates ~2 million square feet of wholesaling warehouse and yard space, while offering inventory and vendor management, to be the premier vendor partner for our customer base. Our customer base consists of aspiring entrepreneurs who own and operate their own wholesale distribution businesses, now over 650 Local Companies nationwide. Therefore, this job provides the opportunity to have a direct impact on the success of entrepreneurial small businesses across the United States, and in particular, those that contract with Shared Purchasing Solutions as a service of WSS to improve their inventory levels and turnover from both outside vendors and vendors within the Winsupply Family of Companies. In this role, you would be cooperatively managing multiple local companies inventory purchasing on selected product lines.

Requirements

• B.S./B.A. in Business, Logistics, Supply Chain or related field and/or 2+ years of relevant purchasing experience.
• Prior experience with purchasing software and inventory management is preferred.
• Proficient with office technology and software.
• Detail oriented; analytical / critical thinking; data analysis; effective communication; customer-focused mindset; deadline driven.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with purchasing software and inventory management is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish regular communication and relationship trust building activities with multiple local company contacts.
• Manage the local company inventory procurement process for product lines of multiple local companies’ choosing.
• Act on behalf of the local companies to issue purchase orders to vendors.
• Maintain the WSS purchasing software suite of systems including WISE, Trucommerce/ Datalliance, and others.
• Perform initial item onboarding, then ongoing maintenance tasks and alert resolution in the various purchasing software systems to ensure that replenishment orders are generated as efficiently as possible.
• Ability to adapt and integrate the above multiple software programs to provide seamless service to local companies.
• Monitor and manage contracted product lines with regard to fill rates, stockouts, inventory turns, and days on hand.
• Review and analyze historical data to assist in developing and recommending inventory strategies to the local companies.
• Review and present key performance metrics at least annually to all assigned local companies.
• Generate reporting of suggested returns of contracted product lines.
• Actively recruit and retain local companies purchasing contract agreements.
• Implements solutions to bring performance metrics within departmental benchmarks.
• Networks with senior internal personnel to make effective business decisions.
• All other duties as assigned, including up to 10% overnight travel as necessary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level