Job Description
Job Title: Purchase Coordinator
Duration: 08 Months Contract to get extend or permanent
Work Location: Onsite at Milwaukee, WI 53208
Pay Rate: $27.00 – $30.00 per hour
Job Type: W2
Email ID: pcarter@veteranssourcinggroup.com
Phone Number: 773-245-1558
Job Description:
· This role exists to create Purchase Orders in a SAP R/3 and SRM (from request to buy forms, SAP purchase requisitions, department specific forms and free-text shopping carts) and to reconcile the POs to the appropriate supplier and price.
· They will assist with adding contracts and new vendors, maintain contract files, process change POs and work with Supply Managers to continuously improve the procure-to-pay process.
· Creating purchase orders, basic financial analysis, processing requisitions, assisting in invoice-PO reconciliations, maintaining contract files and working closely with Supply Managers to manage millions of dollars of MillerCoors spend.
· Bachelors’ degree in business, finance, supply chain or operations preferred, but open to other areas of study
· Procurement experience is a plus (but not required)
· Demonstrates understanding of basic business cost drivers to collaborate with suppliers to ensure optimum pricing, quality, value, and customer service and product availability
· Demonstrates an openness to learn
· Strong communication, problem solving skills are required
· Exhibits effective use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other tools to perform job duties
· Understands and applies some basic continuous improvement methodologies to daily job
· Seeks and acts on feedback from others
· Creates purchase orders in SAP R/3 or SRM (from request to buy forms, SAP purchase requisitions and free-text shopping carts).
· Reconcile PO's with Accounts Payable department
· Determines the appropriate preferred supplier for a request to buy or shopping cart; may assign supplier or have to determine correct pricing for item(s).
· When no supplier is available, discuss with Supply Manager.
· Work with stakeholders to achieve self-sufficiency.
· Works with Supply Manager to ensure continuous supply to functional departments; May reside in functional departments outside Strategic Sourcing.
· Have good understanding of commodities that are assigned and policies around these.
· Understand where to pull commodity specific data.
· Assists with adding contracts and new suppliers, maintain contract files, process change POs
Data Governance Analyst experienced with SQL, SQL Server, PL SQL, Postgres SQL, Data Visualization, Web Intelligence, Data Modelling and reporting for a financial services organization in New York City