Purchasing Coordinator

Unette Corp, located in Randolph, New Jersey, is seeking an experienced Purchasing Coordinator to join our growing team! 

The Purchasing Coordinator accepts and edits purchase requests from various departments, corresponds with suppliers for quotes, prepares purchase orders, and performs buying duties. This position adds value to the organization by maintaining records of materials, prices, inventories and deliveries.

Essential Functionsand Responsibilities:

• Maintains accurate and up to date vendor listing
• Serves as internal resource to customer service representatives, logistics department and production department to manage and reconcile customer inventory.
• Researches information pertaining to inventory, as requested, and relays information to internal personnel and/or customers.
• Administration of purchasing including obtaining price quotes from suppliers and working with supply chain on traffic.
• Maintain and update documentation to ensure accurate records are kept.
• Establish high-quality sustained vendor relationships to support purchases.
• Provide input as required in planning, policies, standards and budgets for the purchasing.
• Negotiate with vendors for broad purchase of goods and services, reviewing bids to ensure the best possible price and service guarantee.
• Manage coordination and approval of customer artwork. Obtain drawings / proofs from customers and submit them to vendors for review and approval.
• Process company’s requisitions by converting to Purchase Orders while assuring that all paperwork has the appropriate signatures for approval.
• Source materials needed for operations; negotiates pricing with potential vendors.
• Maintains Inventory Control process
• Continually work to improve the effectiveness of the quality management system through the use of the quality policy, quality objectives, audit results, analysis of data, corrective and preventive actions.

Education, Skills & ExperienceRequired:

• Ability to organize priorities and work load to complete responsibilities under time constraints.
• High School graduate or equivalent.
• Previous purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong Windows programs: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Strong skills in database and accounting programs (QuickBooks).

Communication Skills:

• Must have proven skills in effective communication both verbal and written, have excellent interpersonal skills.
• Basic comprehension of the English language: reading and writing skills to understand and complete necessary paperwork.

Work/PhysicalRequirements:

Regularly required towalk, stand, bend, twist, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, talkor hear. Good physical condition, ableto lift at least 40 lbs. Good eyesightand hand/eye coordination. Normal office environment with little exposure todust and weather conditions prevalent at the time (i.e., cold, hot/humid). Mayalso require visits to production area – while employee may be exposed tomoving mechanical parts, dust and weather conditions prevalent at the time(cold, hot/humid).

About Unette Corp.:
Unette Corp. is located in Randolph, NJ and is part of Praxis Packaging. Praxis Packaging is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI with facilities in New Jersey and Ohio. Praxis Packaging Solutions is a full service contract packaging company specializing in Secondary Packaging operations for the consumer product, cosmetics, food & beverage, over the counter (OTC) and prescription (Rx) pharmaceuticals, and promotional products industry as well as Primary Filling and Packaging of Oral Solid Dosage Tablets.
We are an independently operated subsidiary of the Huizenga Group. The Huizenga Group is a privately held firm that provides management services to a diverse group of companies. The current portfolio of companies provides products and services for the world adding automotive, pharmaceutical, military goods, medical device, consumer goods and office furniture manufacturers.
Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.