purchasing assistant - Full-time / Part-time

This is a very exciting Purchasing Assistant Opportunity with one of the leading nutritional product organizations! This will be a supply chain/project coordinator oriented position that will give candidates the opportunity to gain valuable experience and build relationships within the organization.

Skills:

• 2+ years of purchasing experience
• Experience with SAP
• Experience with project coordination/project management

This person will be primarily dealing with a project within the procurement team in order to automate the Purchase Order creation and submission process for all packaging material. Packaging materials represent 30% of the number of purchase orders that they create and submit. Currently, the process is completely manual and they do not have a clear process with buyers and with the people involved at the plants.
This person will work as a project coordinator and will implement, coordinate and complete the automation process. They will be responsible for defining the project, scope and objectives of the project as well as measuring the performance.

• Ensure that all steps of the project is delivered on-time and within scope
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
• Manage changes to the project scope and schedule using appropriate verification techniques
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Establish, manage and maintain relationships with all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Create presentations detailing the steps of the project and present to stakeholders
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members
• Use and continually develop leadership skills
• Attend conferences and training as required to maintain proficiency
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs

About Aerotek:

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