Category Manager
Mueller Water Products
Inventory and Procurement Specialist
Microsoft 365
full-time
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Location: Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $25 - $30 per hour
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Execute daily purchasing tasks including order placement, tracking and inventory management.
- Maintain and develop as needed, accurate and up-to-date records of all purchasing transactions (trackers / dashboards).
- Reconcile invoices against inventory receipt to identify and resolve shortages or overages within an order.
- Reconciliation of purchase orders entered into inventory management system against invoices to ensure accurate pricing is reflected.
- Monitor primary and secondary vendor agreements for compliance with generic compliance and minimum volume commitments.
- Ensure / communicate timely availability of inventory to meet operations team requirements.
- Develop and manage relationships with key suppliers.
- Utilize data analytics to identify opportunities for cost savings and process improvements.
- Continuously evaluate and refine procurement strategies to meet changing business needs and market conditions.
- Track pull through and ensure alignment between inventory levels and sales forecasts.
- Analyze market trends to inform purchasing decisions and anticipate potential supply chain disruptions.
- Monitor supplier performance and market conditions to identify risks and opportunities.
- Contribute to the department goal of improved efficiency and effectiveness, including the capture of strategic client opportunities using approved reference resources that support proposal and presentation development activities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, supply chain, or related field or relevant experience within Medication Inventory management and procurement preferred
- 1-2 years of experience within a healthcare setting participating or managing inventory required
- Experience in proficient utilization of PC in both spreadsheet and word processing desktop environment including software applications including Microsoft products
- Participate in, adhere to, and support compliance program objectives
- The ability to consistently interact cooperatively and respectfully with other employees
- The ability to work varying 8 hour shifts onsite in Madison, WI between M-F 8am-7pm.
