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Purchasing / Inventory Specialist
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We have an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented and self-motivated Purchasing & Inventory Specialist. Our company is a small, friendly and quickly growing high-tech manufacturer with an extensive, internationally sourced, inventory.
Job overview:
The ideal candidate will not only be responsible for the procurement of materials at optimum price-performance levels, he/she will also manage the procurement department as a vital profit center within the company. This is a full time position.
Specific responsibilities:
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies that lead to significant cost savings
- Source high-quality materials/products at the lowest price possible
- Negotiate purchasing agreements with vendors and service providers that yield the maximum return on investment
- Produce measurable results both in lowered cost-to-produce and decreased failure rates in purchased products
- Manage procurement activities related to the purchasing of products and services for the production of our proprietary products
- Take ownership of the procurement process and design process enhancements as necessary
- Create purchase orders and schedule production runs
- Responsible for vendor management activities including identifying and evaluating potential vendors
- Nurture relationships with various vendors and service providers
- Tracking RMA status
- Upkeep of logs and schedules
- Weekly reporting
- Provide backup support in inventory management
- Other duties as assigned
The ideal candidate is a:
Detail-oriented person who enjoys overcoming challenges and being responsible for a deadline-driven process. The candidate should be flexible in approach as well as team spirited and comfortable in a start-up environment.
Qualifications:
- Excellent negotiation and people persuasion skills
- High degree of thrift awareness and cost sensitivity
- Purchasing / Inventory experience
- Well organized and technically minded
- Good interpersonal and communications skills
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with vendors and suppliers
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple responsibilities
Significant pluses:
- Experience handling electronic parts
- Vendor management experience
- Database experience (MS Access)
- Familiarity with start-up environment
- Familiarity with Peachtree accounting
- Foreign Languages
The position offers:
- Competitive salary
- Medical, dental, vision
- Vacation, sick leave
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About the Company
VSS monitoring (www.vssmonitoring.com) is the industry's leading innovator of distributed network traffic collection targeting the evolving requirements of the world's most security conscious network professionals in telecommunications, government and enterprise. We create hardware-driven network systems that significantly advance network monitoring architectures by saving costs, expanding analyzer/IDS visibility and elevating response time efficiency. To this end, we are a leading developer of Distributed Taps and currently maintain the largest product portfolio of any vendor in the space. We are distinguished internationally as the only tap vendor providing distributed solutions with a brand known for quality and performance.
Founded in 2003 and based in Silicon Valley, California, VSS monitoring has a global reach that is supported by over 35 sales partners worldwide. The company's acronym, "VSS", stands for "Visibility, Stealth and Security".
How to apply:
Please send resumes to careers@vssmonitoring.com or click on the apply button at the bottom of this page. Please indicate job title in subject line.
Principals only. EEO.
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