Purchasing Agent Job in Louisville 40223, Kentucky Us
RecoverCare LLC is the nation's leading distributor of wound care, bariatric and safe patient handling equipment and solutions to healthcare facilities nationwide via 115-Plus service centers. We currently operate in 48 states, with the corporate office based out of Louisville, KY
The Company serves acute care hospitals, long term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation facilities, hospice centers and home care patients.
We are seeking an experienced Purchasing Agent in our Louisville Corporate Office
This position reports to the Sr. Purchasing Agent and will be responsible for assisting the Sr. Purchasing Agent in procurement and purchasing activities for the company. Utilize standard purchasing forms, bid requests, material requisitions, logs, and trend reports. A high degree of professinal integrity, ethics and confidentiality is required.
- Track and monitor supplier delivery performance for timing, quanity and quality.
- Assist as needed in negotiating pricing, delivery, discounts and terms with suppliers and transportation carriers.
- Issue purchase ordres to selected suppliers via e-mail / web / phone / fax.
- Actively monitor all open PO's for on time deliveries and follow up with supplies when expected ship dates are not achieved.
- Communication of all delviery delays or back orders to customer service, sales, and warehouse operations personnel that are affected.
- Responsible for responding to price requests from the Contracts Department.
- Clearly and precisely documents the terms and conditions on all purchase orders
- Discuss defective or unacceptable goods and/or services with suppliers to determine source of trouble and corrective action.
- Work with Accounts Payble Department and suppliers on invoice discrepancies.
- Follows policies and procedures established by Inventory/Purchasing Manager.
- Maintain professionalism throughout all verbal and written communications with management, co-workers, suppliers, and customers.
- Perform related duties as assigned by supervision.
The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear, on occasion lift up to 25 lbs.
Specific vision abilitites required by this job include distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perceptionk and the ability to adjust focus.
RecoverCare offers a complete benefit package to all fulltime employees and is an EOO employer
- Must be able to work in a schedule-driven environment. Timing is a critical function.
- Ability work independently and also as a team member.
- Prefer at least 2 years experience using MSOffice, including, MSWord, Excel, and Outlook in a business setting.
- Ability to read and comprehend simple and complex instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to wrote simple and complex correspondence
- Ability to effectively present information one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all unites of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed involved written or oral instructions.
- Ability to deal with problems involving concrete variable in standardized situations.
- Clean Criminal background with the ability to pass a pre-employment drug and alcohol screen
