Purchasing Coordinator

Professional Packaging Systems (Pro Pac) is seeking a Purchasing Coordinator to manage material procurement across five manufacturing locations. The role requires a strong professional ethic, a passion for positive change, and collaborative team play to drive revenue and cost efficiencies through accurate forecasting and vendor management.

Professional Packaging Systems provided pay range

This range is provided by Professional Packaging Systems. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$25.00/hr - $25.00/hr

Pay: $25.00/hr

Responsibilities And Essential Duties

• Maintain excellent working relationships with internal operating and external sales groups.
• Work with selected vendors to obtain product information such as price, availability, and delivery schedules.
• Process purchase orders for materials purchases.
• Use demand forecasts to order materials for five Frito facilities.
• Adjust purchase order deliveries at sites based on demand changes.
• Actively manage deliveries to maximize inbound payloads and reduce cost.
• Schedule weekly meetings with site planners to align on goals and improve performance.
• Maintain vendor capabilities and specifications library, including material specifications, capabilities by type and gauge, certification logs, printing capabilities, and master price lists with expiration dates.
• Maintain vendor contact database.
• Communicate with vendors and carriers on deliveries and provide information to sites to ensure optimum production scheduling.
• Maintain supplier pricing.
• Provide applicable reports on purchases, returns, credits, and inventories upon request.
• Maintain inventory stock levels across all locations to meet inventory targets.
• Provide requested information to the customer (Frito) upon request.

Job Contacts (main interfaces inside and outside the company)

• Supply Chain Managers
• Vendors
• Finance

Educational Background

• High school Diploma or GED equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

Knowledge/Skills Required

• Minimum of five years of experience in purchasing
• Excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrated time management and multitasking skills
• Maintain high levels of business courtesy and etiquette when interacting with customer service, vendors, and sales representatives
• Deliver against KPIs for the purchasing department
• Experience with purchasing paper-based packaging is required
• Ability to forecast and run MRP
• Knowledge of the CPG industry
• Ability to solve problems independently
• Ability to make decisions quickly and accurately
• Willingness to work additional hours
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be 18 years of age.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

• Intermediate knowledge of MS Outlook and Google Suite; skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access are a plus
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and customer relations skills
• Attention to detail and mental concentration necessary for accurately performing clerical tasks, balancing multiple priorities, and handling frequent interruptions.

About Pro Pac And Qual Pac

Founded in 1971, Professional Packaging Systems (Pro Pac) brings deep knowledge and expertise to provide the best packaging solutions for our customers. We serve every industry, including e-commerce, retail, wholesale food, snack, beverage, specialty manufacturing, fresh produce, hobby and craft, automotive, electronics, pet, and cosmetic industries. We are headquartered in Grand Prairie, Texas, with regional sales branches in El Paso and Brownsville, TX, and additional contract packaging/fulfillment operations in Brookshire, TX;
Charlotte, NC; and Olathe, KS.

Come join a growing group of honest, knowledgeable, and skilled professionals dedicated to offering superior products and services to those we serve! Visit us at

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