Procurement Specialist

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Summary:

In this role, you will be responsible for the timely placement, follow-up, receipt and mitigation of sales orders and purchase orders for Inspirity customers.

Responsibilities:

• Manage import of customer sales orders and conversion of sales order to purchase order in the Inspirity Central Office system.

• Oversee system dispatch of purchase orders to suppliers via EDI record and mitigating order failures.

• Manage purchase order EDI conformation records from suppliers.

• Follow up with suppliers on missing confirmation records and mitigate any exception issues preventing order placement or pricing issues.

• Collaborate with customers to update sales orders to ensure timely delivery and receipt of goods.

• Work with Data and Technology teams to fix root cause of EDI purchase order failures and exception issues to prevent future failures and exceptions.

• Track open purchase order lines with suppliers and/or customers, updating Inspirity ERP accordingly.

• Report back-order issues to customers for potential mitigation.

• Perform invoice matching resolution for specialty procured goods by working with payable team and suppliers: Bill Only, Consignment Purchase Orders.

• Manage product returns process, working with customers and suppliers to obtain RMAs and successful return of product.

• Oversee over-short-damaged goods issues with customers and suppliers, following up until successful resolution of issue. 

• Handle Tier 2 escalations from customers on procurement issues for Inspirity orders.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.

• 2 or more years of experience required.

• Strong computer skills.

• Experience working within Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is a plus.

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $39,100.00 to $66,500.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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