Purchasing Specialist
EVERSANA Company, Memphis, TN, United States
Purchasing Specialist
The Purchasing Specialist will be creating purchase orders, managing client invoicing, tracking client associated expenses and ordering operational supplies for the Channel business unit. This role will collaborate across departments to ensure that all purchases follow general procedures for procurement and responsible for providing administrative assistance to facility related operations in the local office. This role will work closely with facilities for maintenance and building operations as well as other management for administrative duties. Essential duties and responsibilities include creating of purchase orders, tracking client related costs, communicating with cross functional team members, ordering of campus supplies from a variety of vendors, responsible for coding and inputting daily, weekly, and monthly invoices, serving as main point of contact for vendors and suppliers, interacting with various vendors to ensure necessary resources/supplies are stocked, providing support for company sponsored events, assisting with managing company records per the Record Retention Policy, assisting in planning, organizing, and coordinating various projects, programs, and services, demonstrating a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias, and all other duties as assigned. Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities include a high-school diploma required, some college preferred with an emphasis on finance or supply chain, 2 years of job-related experience, ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, strong customer service focus, ability to maintain confidentiality, ability to work both independently and in a team environment, ability to balance multiple projects, to quickly prioritize a variety of responsibilities, to be flexible and to adjust to changing priorities needed, demonstrated ability to be action/results oriented, ability to meet deadlines and work with limited supervision, excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, focus on results in a professional, ethical, and responsible manner when dealing with customers, vendors, team members, and others, accepts being accountable and responsible in work practices and expectations, produces deliverable items accurately and on time, fosters a collaborative, team-oriented attitude, communicates effectively with others with clarity and transparency, uses innovative critical, creative and analytical thought processes to evaluate and solve issues, seeks assistance to solve issues and acquire needed information, and strong computer skills with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
The Purchasing Specialist will be creating purchase orders, managing client invoicing, tracking client associated expenses and ordering operational supplies for the Channel business unit. This role will collaborate across departments to ensure that all purchases follow general procedures for procurement and responsible for providing administrative assistance to facility related operations in the local office. This role will work closely with facilities for maintenance and building operations as well as other management for administrative duties. Essential duties and responsibilities include creating of purchase orders, tracking client related costs, communicating with cross functional team members, ordering of campus supplies from a variety of vendors, responsible for coding and inputting daily, weekly, and monthly invoices, serving as main point of contact for vendors and suppliers, interacting with various vendors to ensure necessary resources/supplies are stocked, providing support for company sponsored events, assisting with managing company records per the Record Retention Policy, assisting in planning, organizing, and coordinating various projects, programs, and services, demonstrating a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias, and all other duties as assigned. Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities include a high-school diploma required, some college preferred with an emphasis on finance or supply chain, 2 years of job-related experience, ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, strong customer service focus, ability to maintain confidentiality, ability to work both independently and in a team environment, ability to balance multiple projects, to quickly prioritize a variety of responsibilities, to be flexible and to adjust to changing priorities needed, demonstrated ability to be action/results oriented, ability to meet deadlines and work with limited supervision, excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, focus on results in a professional, ethical, and responsible manner when dealing with customers, vendors, team members, and others, accepts being accountable and responsible in work practices and expectations, produces deliverable items accurately and on time, fosters a collaborative, team-oriented attitude, communicates effectively with others with clarity and transparency, uses innovative critical, creative and analytical thought processes to evaluate and solve issues, seeks assistance to solve issues and acquire needed information, and strong computer skills with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.