Procurement Assistant
Lombard, Illinois
Type: Temporary
Job ID: 7829
Management
Salary: $30$0 Per Hour
Posted Date: 10/29/2024
Job Description
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PROCUREMENT ASSISTANT
Procurement Coordinator / Construction
Our PROCUREMENT ASSISTANTS are responsible for the INITIAL ONSET OF OUR RFQ/RFP PROCESS AND SUPPORT OF OUR CORPORATE BUYERS. Candidates must have a minimum of 0-3 years of solid ASSISTANCE experience. EXPERIENCE IN construction IS A PLUS. Candidates must have the ability to research/source and select vendors that ensure quality, price, delivery and service at a price that maximizes company profit margins while maintaining the highest code of ethics and conduct.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare Request for Quotations/Invitations to Bid (RFQs/ITBs) bid packages based on commodity assignment.
- Obtain solicitations/bids from sources of supply.
- Follow-up on all RFQ packets and/or all bidders so as to ensure bids are received in a timely fashion (per required timeline) IN SUPPORT OF BUYERS
- Maintain constant communication w/all stakeholders on buyout packages.
- Receive and review bid packages with BUYERS so as to ensure bids are complete.
- Generate purchase orders in Purchase Order system (ViewPoint) and log Purchase Orders into Material Tracking Report ONCE DECISIONS ARE MADE BY BUYERS.
- ASSIST BUYERS IN SENDING award/release Purchase Orders to Vendor(s); follow up with awardee to ensure Order Acknowledgement is sent.
- Attend daily Procurement/Logistics meetings and other meetings (as requested).
- Perform daily quality control (QC) checks on purchase orders and/or reports for other team members (as needed).
- Other duties as assigned.
Experience, Education and Skills
- Minimum Associate’s Degree in related field is a MUST (Business Administration preferred).
- Must have a minimum of one to three years of solid Procurement/ASSISTANCE experience, PREFERABLY in the construction industry. however, willing to take on the right recent college graduate majoring in supply chain management.
- Must have a good understanding of procurement techniques/requirements.
- Must have the ability to learn AND FOLLOW Procurement/Logistics policies and procedures.
- Must have strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Must be well organized, detail-oriented and highly motivated.
- Must be able to work independently with minimum supervision.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; especially in Excel.
- Must have impeccable customer service skills. In our area of business; we treat everyone as a customer
- Must be able to evaluate and use relevant information along with individual judgment to suggest ways to improve work processes (Process Improvement).
$30.00-35.00/hr
8am-5pm
Monday-Thursday
Fridays, work from home
Temporary
Lombard, IL
Please send resumes to yurig@elitestaffinginc.com
All employees of Elite Staffing must be 18 years or older and authorized to work in the United States.
Elite Staffing, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our policy of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train and promote persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, handicap or any other protected status.
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