Procurement Specialist

Company: Champion Packaging & Distribution Inc
Location: Woodridge
Posted on: April 16, 2025

Job Description:

Description:Champion Packaging is dedicated to providing the highest quality products at competitive prices and delivering exceptional customer satisfaction while maintaining focus on minimizing impact to our environment. Champion Packaging strives to be a leader in our industry. We maintain a safe work environment, partner with carefully selected vendors, and promote a team atmosphere where new ideas from all employees are evaluated for use by the organization.
Overview:We're looking for career-minded people to make a real impact in a fast-paced, high-energy environment that promotes individual growth and rewards performance. We are offering a full-time Procurement Agent position. This individual must be proficient with Microsoft Office and SAP, or another ERP program. In addition, this individual must possess previous purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment. We are seeking to fill this role with a self-starter who strives for improvement and has an eagerness to learn beyond their list of duties.
Responsibilities: - Monitor and analyze key performance indicators related to procurement, such as supplier performance, cost savings, order fulfillment rates, lead times, and inventory levels. - Utilize data analytics tools and techniques to generate reports and insights that help identify trends, opportunities for cost reduction, and areas of improvement in the purchasing process. - Evaluate and track supplier performance metrics, working closely with the team to address issues and drive improvements. - Collaborate with inventory and supply chain teams to forecast future demand, ensuring optimal purchasing decisions are made based on historical data and market trends. - Develop and maintain profitable purchasing strategies using multiple data sets - Monitor supplier performance to maintain timely delivery and compliance to terms of contracts - Collect, analyze and summarize data and trends. Use this data to create forecasts, plan purchase orders and maintain inventory levels of hundreds of raw materials - Prepare purchase orders using MRP recommendations, while verifying necessity, specifications and price - Obtain purchased items on time to meet production demands by working closely with suppliers; either by forwarding new purchase orders or monitoring existing orders for potential requirement changes. - Work closely with Scheduling and Sales departments to ensure raw material availability for customer forecasts as well as internal production plans - Verify receipt of items, and resolve any discrepancies with suppliers - Work with the Accounts Payable department to resolve pricing discrepancies with suppliers - Keep information accessible by logging activity within open documents, saving files in an organized manner and communicating pertinent information to other departments - Creating Bill of Materials from customer supplied specifications - Special projects and other duties as assigned
Benefits:--- - - - -401(k)--- - - - -401(k) matching--- - - - -Dental insurance--- - - - -Employee assistance program--- - - - -Flexible schedule--- - - - -Flexible spending account--- - - - -Health insurance--- - - - -Life insurance--- - - - -Paid time off--- - - - -Retirement plan--- - - - -Vision insuranceSchedule:--- - - - -8-hour shift--- - - - -Day shiftEducation:--- - - - -High school or equivalent (Preferred)Experience:--- - - - -Microsoft Office: 2 years (Preferred)--- - - - -SAP Manufacturing: 2 years (Preferred)--- - - - -Purchasing: 2 years (Preferred)Work Location: In person
Requirements:Qualifications: - 3+ years of purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment - 5+ years of Microsoft Office experience and general computer skills - Moderate proficiency in Excel - SAP experience strongly preferred - MRP experience strongly preferred - Excellent understanding of the manufacturing process as it pertains to inventory - Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills - Strong research and analytical skills - Strong documentation and organizational skills - Excellent attention to detail - Strong communication and negotiation skills - Must be eligible to work in the US - Required to pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check - Full-time position - A high school diploma or GED is required - College degree strongly preferred





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