Truecrest Safety is a growing distribution company of safety wear and general merchandise with establishment history of 40 years. We are currently recruiting experienced candidates to our Purchasing team.

Essential Job Duties

– Work with CEO and purchasers to develop new products

– Source on-trend product and locate factories/vendors

– Assist with vendor allocations, communication, and price/term negotiations

– Manage sample requests and follow up

– Work with graphic designers for packaging and implementation

– Request and maintain necessary samples, tracking/tracing, as well as price/quality comparison

– General procurement

– Order cycle management

– Identifies and recommends vendor by investigating sales trend, researching for new product trend, market, requests, etc.

– Indentify and evaluate potential suppliers.

– Communicate with new and old vendors for new product development, price negotiation, delivery, quality assurance, etc.

– Negotiates final terms and conditions of purchase, and administers the procurement contract to conclusion. Maintain accurate lead times for assigned area. Issues purchase orders and agreements that accurately reflect price, schedule, terms, and conditions as negotiated with suppliers.

– Monitors and evaluates supplier performance. Resolve shipment quality discrepancies by mediating supplier/manufacturing issues. Facilitate inspections, substitutions, and standardization by arranging and participating in conferences between suppliers and company personnel.

– Negotiates and settles damage claims, rejections, loss, return of materials, over-shipments, cancellations and engineering changes with suppliers.

– Monitors and evaluates supplier’s ability to meet all company and government or commercial procurement requirements and ensure that the pertinent technical and quality issues receive adequate attention in order to assure compliance.

– Prepares complex reports and analyses by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.

– Applies continuous improvement techniques and methods to internal processes and systems. Develops, coordinates, and implements improvement initiatives with key suppliers. Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses. Analyze proposed changes in methods and materials. May lead or be assigned to a special project team.

Qualifications:

– Bachelors degree (BA) in Business Administration, related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience which has provided both theoretical and practical knowledge in the field.

– 5 years or more in Import production, purchasing, or related field.

– Computer Literate, knowledge in Excel

– Plus if knowledgeable in QuickBooks

– Excellent Communication skills

Job Type: Full-time