What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Powell Electronics?
Interact with vendors to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services and to handle and resolve complaints.
Responsibilities include:
Skills:
Knowledge:
Required Qualifications:
Responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining strong vendor relationships
- Maintaining inventory levels within company goals; minimizing stock out situations wherever possible.
- Obtaining costs in support of sales
- Aggregates demand and negotiates costs with vendors to enhance gross margin
- Maintains the integrity of system information, used by sales, to issue quotations
- Resolves accounting and receiving discrepancies and validates customer rejections with vendors
- Identifies critical expedite requests and escalates appropriately
- Exhibits a strong commitment to customer service; acting with a sense of urgency in responding to internal requests
Skills:
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Service Orientation
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Persuasion
- Active Learning
- Monitoring
- Social Perceptiveness
- Time Management
Knowledge:
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Clerical
- Economics and Accounting
- Mathematics
- Computers and Electronics
- Administration and Management
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in related discipline.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to prioritize and multitask in fast paced environment.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate technical details and requirements.
- Previous work history with SAP preferred.
