Job Description
Pilot Company would like to add a Purchasing Agent to our Purchasing Team to provide product and services sourcing as well as store support encompassing response and resolution to store needs and problems. Join our talented and fun team to recommend and collaborate in vendor evaluation, selection and negotiation process! We offer competitive benefits, tuition reimbursment onsite gym and cafeteria!
WHAT YOU WILL DO ON THIS TEAM:
- Lead product and services administration and store support including sourcing, testing, and selecting new products, programs, and services; respond to store needs and solve store problems
- Compile and send out bid packages to potential vendors, analyze returned packages, negotiate contract terms and review, and analyze and edit contracts
- Recommend and collaborate in vendor evaluation, selection, and negotiation process; establish and maintain contractual and business relationships with the vendors, and adjust sourcing strategies based on supplier performance business unit input
- Conduct pricing analyses and total cost models as well as ad-hoc and standard reports
- Organize, review, and analyze company data to identify trends, create meaningful reporting, and develop action items
- Remain current with market trends through relationship with vendors; perform market research and identify new solutions to company’s key problems
- Identify, develop, and implement strategies to achieve process improvements and secure reductions according to implementation plans including post-bid invoice review to verify and track attained savings
- Model behaviors that support the company’s common purpose; ensure guests and team members are supported at the highest level
- Ensure all activities are in compliance with rules, regulations, policies, and procedures