Purchasing Agent

4 weeks ago

durham, United States Medasource Full time

Purchasing Agent

Client: Large Pharmaceutical Client of Medasource

Duration: 12-month contract, high likelihood of extension or conversion to full-time

Location: 100% onsite, Durham, NC

Shift: Day Shift, M-F (opportunity for overtime)


Responsibilities:

  • Analyze inventory levels of items within ERP systems and act as needed (placing purchase orders, expediting, and deferring deliveries etc.)
  • Place purchase orders in SAP and Ariba with suppliers with sufficient lead time to enable on time deliveries to facilitate support of production orders.
  • Monitor and adjust purchase order quantities and delivery dates as needed and maintaining SAP with current accurate data.
  • Build strong relationships with external vendors, internal CLIENT SITE team and other CLIENT sites Manage material expiration and revisions to prevent production schedule disruptions and minimize destructions and obsolescence.
  • Support creation and maintenance of material master data, MRP parameters, reorder points, safety stocks, lead times, and lot sizes etc.
  • Work closely with Production Planning, Scheduling, Quality, Warehouse & Logistics, CLIENT Joint Process Teams as well as project teams to ensure material needs are met.
  • Troubleshoot receiving issues with purchase orders and communicate to suppliers regarding documentation needed to perform receipt and/or invoice payment.
  • Track and report purchasing metrics, including on time delivery, past due purchase orders, releasing purchase orders on time, etc.
  • Forecast and manage material expirations and revisions to prevent production schedule disruptions and minimize destructions and obsolescence.
  • Run reports on a timely basis including Open Order Reports and purchasing metrics, including On-time deliveries, On-time PO release, Past due POs, and On-time Incoming inspection.
  • Work with Supply Chain team to streamline processes and implement quality improvements.
  • Partnership with finance/procurement on evaluation of materials for slow-moving/obsolete inventory and obsolete inventory for destruction
  • Support the start-up of the SITE site, partnering with quality, planning, and procurement to purchase GMP and Non GMP indirect materials required for both start-up activities and routine operations.
  • Maintain close communication with all operations areas supervisor regarding all customer issues and concerns.


EDUCATION:

  • Four-year college degree is preferred. Experience on the job in lieu of a degree may be considered.


EXPERIENCE

  • 2-5 years of work experience
  • Experience in manufacturing, procurement, or supply chain preferably a GMP environment
  • SAP experience.
  • Knowledge of Indirect and/or MRO materials
  • Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology or other regulated environment experience.
  • Ability to work independently with little day-to-day direction.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills up, down and across the organization
  • Capability to prioritize and multi-task effectively with the ability to change direction quickly.
  • Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working safely and accountable for supporting all HSE objectives.
  • Collaborate with other internal and external teams.
  • Computer literacy – Ariba, Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office


Additional Information:

  • Occasionally need to provide support outside core working hours to assist with operational issues.

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