What are the responsibilities and job description for the Direct Purchasing Buyer position at Harvey Nash?
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- Support the Dealer Service Tool Procurement and Product teams with maintenance of parts and suppliers
- Quoting, price change, invoice discrepancies, Excel reports, high volume of emails, evaluating source changes, performing root cause corrective action of purchasing & supply chain issues, etc.
Reason/motivation for request:
- Backfill
Why Client? “Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class solutions or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Client. With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Client travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best minds in the industry, complete meaningful work and continuously grow and develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that matters.”
Why this Role?
- A growing category with a lot of opportunities
- A chance to work for a fortune 100 company
- Learn from a talented team
- Challenging Projects
Typical task breakdown:
- Sending requests for quotations
- Executing price changes
- Resolving invoice price discrepancies
- Answering a variety of email requests
- Ad-Hoc reports
Interaction with team:
- Will directly support a Category Buyer & work cross-functionally with Dealer Service Tool Product Group, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, and Accounts Payable
Team Structure
- Senior Category Manager – Category Buyer – Purchasing Analyst
Work environment:
- Typical office environment of a big company
Education & Experience Required:
- Years of experience: 5-7 of purchasing experience
- Degree requirement: BS Degree
- Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Junior Buyer, Sourcing Analyst, Purchasing Analyst, Supply Chain Analyst
Top 3 Skills
- Organization
- Detail Oriented
- Analytical
Additional Technical Skills
- Intermediate Excel/PowerPoint skills.
- Experience in Power BI/Tableau dashboards
- Data Analysis & Interpretation
- Reports, charts, and graphs
Soft Skills
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Presentations
- Self-motivated, organized and ability to prioritize workload w/little direction
- Team mindset
- Critical thinking
Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:
- No full-time experience in direct purchasing
Salary : $30 - $32