Procurement Specialist

****This is a 4 month contract to hire in Tampa (33614) paying $19/hr for the first 4 months then will increase to $27/hr at the first 4 months***

One of Insight Global's Beverage Manufacturing clients is looking to hire a Customer Supply Chain Specialist position for an upcoming 4 month contract to hire in Tampa (on site 4 days, 1 remote). This person will be in charge of managing accounts while handling all customer related inquiries.

Key Accountabilities:

· Responsible for timely and accurate order management assigned to Region Commercial Team, communicating directly with the account’s buyers.

· Perform daily audit of open orders, including research and rescheduling of orders that are still open from previous day.

· Review orders for completeness and accuracy. Acquire needed information and/or approvals prior to releasing order for shipment (i.e.: pricing discrepancies, approval to ship close-dated cases).

· Schedule dock appointments for CPU customers and maintain appointments within scheduling application

· Management of delivered orders through in-house Transportation Department.

· Coordinate with Customer Experience Manager, Production Planner, Demand Planner, Warehouse Manager, Materials Manager to ensure additional product requirements (promotion planned, new DC/store) are received from customer contacts communicated and understood.

· Directly responsible for determining whether substitutions / date changes are required for order fulfillment based upon projected shortages.

· Confidently build strong customer relationships while supporting sales personnel in identifying customer order practices that are inconsistent with service level agreement.

· Reviewing aged inventory and discontinued items at company owned bottling operations and at co-packer locations.

· Maintain requirements in customer’s vendor sub-systems.

Review SAP T-Code for pricing discrepancies and follow written SOP.