Inventory and Purchasing Assistant

## Description
**Key Responsibilities:**

• Process and manage purchase orders, ensuring accuracy, timely submission, and follow-up
• Maintain strong vendor relationships through regular communication, performance monitoring, and resolution of procurement-related issues.
• Conduct regular inventory assessments, ensuring optimal stock levels and minimizing surplus.
• Collaborate closely with internal departments, including production, logistics, and finance, ensuring alignment across purchasing processes.
• Monitors and maintains current inventory and safety stock levels; tracks purchase orders and investigates problems.
• Records purchases and usage, maintains database, performs physical count of inventory and reconciles stock count to computer generated reports.
• Inspect shipments and shipping documents for damage, correct quantities and delivery dates.
• Match shipments to their associated purchase orders and enter receiving data on paperwork.
• Label, prepare and organize received stock for inventory.
• Perform monthly inventories and provide count data.
• Manage courier packages incoming and outgoing. (FedEx, UPS)
• Return damaged products to senders

## Qualifications
**Required Qualifications:**

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, preferred.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in purchasing and inventory management within the manufacturing industry.
• Demonstrated ability to manage vendor relationships.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in SAP
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).