Procurement Specialist

Holland is a leading international distributor of materials, service and solutions to the thermoplastics industry, providing suppliers with the most strategic channels to market, offering innovative sourcing and supply chain solutions to its clients, and providing talented people with rewarding career opportunities.

This role is responsible for planning inventory, purchasing materials, collaborating with others, supporting peers, and developing themselves to meet the overall objective of having the right inventory in the right place, at the right time.

Key responsibilities include:

• Generating purchase orders, managing changes, and ensuring order confirmation with all required timeliness.
• Suggesting changes to the ERP/Master Data configuration, customizations, and data.
• Reviewing and analyzing reporting to ensure inventory targets, service goals, aged goals, and logistics expense goals.
• Completing monthly root cause analysis on inventory, aged inventory, obsolete inventory, and service trends.
• Monitoring aged and obsolete inventory and developing a plan to mitigate accordingly.

Vendor Tracking:

Monitoring and analyzing reporting on vendor performance, performing root cause analysis and corrective action for performance outside of control limits.

Analyzing purchase requisitions versus inventory targets, service considerations, demand and sourcing options prior to generating PO's.

Validating, revising and/or recommending changes to system data via interaction/communication with Product Managers and suppliers.

Communicating vendor backorder issues to client experience, product managers, and supply chain managers.

Demonstrating commitment to continuous learning by building skills, earning credentials, and increasing responsibilities.

An undergraduate degree is required for this position, and an advanced degree would be considered an asset.

Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel is required, including functions, inserting charts, pivot tables, Solver/Data Analysis tool.

Basic understanding of the distribution business, the procure-to-pay process, and purchase or supply chain planning is required.

Knowledge of Database Applications (Access or Business Objects) is required.

Minimum of 1 year of experience purchasing or inventory management experience with increasing levels of responsibility in a distribution, commodity-based, or a closely aligned sector in North America is required.

We adhere to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, or marital status.