Purchasing/Inventory Controller & Marketing

   You will: 

• Be responsible for procuring merchandise for resale, and for inventory management. 

• Enthusiastically negotiate with vendors to obtain the best pricing, delivery, and terms of purchase ensuring optimal order fill rates and customer satisfaction.

• Analyze product on hand and projected product sales.

• Create, process, and expedite vendor Purchase Orders to maintain desired product mix, optimum shelf quantities, and satisfy projected product sales. 

• Monitor vendor shipments and receipt of merchandise to ensure that they are within acceptable parameters established by the Profit Center Manager.

• Meet or exceed the Profit Center targets for fill rates/service levels, in stock rates, annual inventory turns, and slow-moving/devalued/overstock inventory levels.

• Perform cycle counts, research, and resolve all inventory discrepancies.

• Perform required file maintenance to products, buy lines, price and buy matrices; communicate with Product File Administrator as necessary.

• Negotiate and maintain profitable partnerships with suppliers and vendors.

• Monitor customer returned goods and vendor merchandise returns to ensure timely processing and credit accuracy.

• Maintain market intelligence and report changes in pricing levels and potential problem areas or conditions that could adversely affect the Company’s procurement position.

About You:

• 1+ years of purchasing and inventory control experience, wholesale distribution experience preferred

• Knowledge of products sold in the Profit Center preferred

Our ideal candidate will also: 

• Effectively use Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel) to communicate via email, to maintain vendor contact files and appointment calendars, and to analyze vendor purchases and sales data.

• Be able to analyze sales and procurement data and understand market trends to make the best purchasing decisions.

• Possess excellent verbal communication and negotiation skills.

• Be able to build and maintain influential relationships with vendors, customers and co-workers.

• Be energetic, self-motivated and able to work independently.

• Be able to learn and operate the computer related systems used to create, process and expedite purchase orders, to control inventory, and to produce reports for analysis.

• Read, write, speak, and understand English.

• Be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.