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SalaryAct as the Liaison between the company and Vendor, as well as working as a resource for the Commercial Team. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Supervise efficient procurement of all materials to maintain inventory and update all purchase orders. Maintain and update vendor relationships, terms and conditions, projects, and special agreements between the company and the vendor on all purchasing and delivery of materials. Coordinate and expedite the flow of work between departments according to the production schedule as needed.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Confer with personnel and vendors to coordinate supplier production schedules or shipping activities and resolve complaints and eliminate delays
- Examine documents, materials or products and monitor work processes to assess completeness, accuracy and conformance to logistics, standards and specifications
- Developing and sustaining long-standing relationships with company-approved vendors
- Responsive to internal customers through prompt follow-up to order need, inquiries and issues
- Engage necessary resources to resolve purchase order fulfillment issues when they arise
- Provides insights to vendor and any crucial changes or issues
- Create guidelines and standards for a scorecard to make sure that all metrics are being followed by the vendors
- Establishing standards by which to assess the performance of approved vendors
- Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain management or equivalent technical school certification
- Alternatively, 5 or more years of experience in a customer-facing role identifying and addressing customer needs within relevant industry experience
- Skills & Abilities
- Demonstrate understanding and compliance with all applicable quality standardization procedures and processes
- Knowledge of valves and related products
- Intermediate understanding of the chemical, refining, and power markets
- Established relationships with relevant vendors
- Successful completion of Negotiation Skills: completed through LinkedIn learning path
- Assist in the coaching, mentoring, and development of other staff
- Problem solving (Six Sigma Green Belt) preferred
- Ability to perform job function without supervision
- Acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases
- Successful completion of Communication Skills: done thorough LinkedIn learning path
- Successful completion of Terms and Conditions: done through LinkedIn learning path
- Travel: 25%
- Lifting up to 20 lbs
- Bending, stooping, walking, sitting
