[Hiring] Senior Purchasing Agent and Inventory Controller @Hajoca Corporation

Role Description

Hajoca is looking for a Senior Purchasing Agent and Inventory Controller to join their East Division Purchasing team. This is a remote position.

About the Role:

• 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.
• Develop and implement long-term strategies for inventory control and purchasing that align with profit center business objectives.
• Identify and evaluate trends and best practices in inventory management to enhance purchasing strategies.
• Help create and enforce inventory and purchasing policies and procedures to ensure efficiency, consistency, and compliance.
• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with key suppliers and vendors.
• Conduct negotiations and manage contracts with suppliers to secure the best possible terms and pricing.
• Analyze product on hand and projected product sales.
• Mentor teammates on inventory and purchasing procedures, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
• Develop and implement contingency plans to ensure business continuity with inventory needs.
• Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis to support decision making.
• 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 required file maintenance to products, buy lines, price and buy matrices; communicate with Product File Administrator as necessary.
• Successfully complete required safety and compliance training programs as assigned.
• Perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of purchasing and inventory control experience, wholesale distribution experience preferred.
• Knowledge of products sold in the Profit Center preferred.
• Resides in one of these states: NY, CT, NJ, MA, PA.

Requirements

• Effectively use Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel) to communicate via email, maintain vendor contact files and appointment calendars, and analyze vendor purchases and sales data.
• Analyze sales and procurement data and understand market trends to make the best purchasing decisions.
• Possess excellent verbal communication and negotiation skills.
• Build and maintain influential relationships with vendors, customers, and co-workers.
• Be energetic, self-motivated, and able to work independently.
• Learn and operate the computer-related systems used to create, process and expedite purchase orders, control inventory, and produce reports for analysis.
• Read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Benefits

• Competitive starting wage.
• Profit-Sharing Program that provides each team member with an opportunity to earn a direct share of the profits on an annual basis.
• Full-time benefits (for team members working 30 or more hours per week):
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
• Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and critical care coverage.
• Life insurance and Long Term Disability.
• Pre-tax accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuter benefits.
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time (sick time also offered to PT team members as required by state law).
• Paid pregnancy and parental leave.
• Paid day of community service.
• Full-time and part-time benefits:
• 401(k).
• Retirement cash account with company contributions.
• Targeted training programs focused on personal and professional growth.
• Company wellness program.
• Employee discounts.
• College tuition benefits.