Purchasing Coordinator

Description

HoMedics is a privately‑owned multinational company headquartered in Commerce Township, Michigan. Over the past 35 years, HoMedics has grown into a world leader in developing, marketing and distributing personal care, wellness and consumer electronics products. The Company’s products are sold under the HoMedics brand name, as well as other recognizable brands, including HMDX, Jam, Obusforme, Salter, Ellia, and House of Marley.

This success is attributable to innovation, speed to market, and depth/breadth of distribution. Growth has been both organic and through acquisitions. HoMedics extensive line of personal wellness products strives to promote overall well‑being and create a healthy home environment that helps relax the body, renew the spirit, de‑stress and simplify life. HoMedics has a full line of wellness products, including back, neck, foot and handheld massagers, sound spas, footbaths, essential oils and diffusers, humidifiers, air purifiers, blood pressure monitors, and more.

The HoMedics brand is synonymous with innovation, especially in the massage category where the brand enjoys dominant market share. HoMedics products are sold in more than 60 countries throughout North and South America, Central America, the Asia‑Pacific region, Europe, Middle East and Africa, with North America representing 65% of the Company’s revenues. Products are sold in brick and mortar and online retail across all channels of distribution including mass, specialty, department store, club and drug, as well as independent distributors.

As a private, family‑owned organization, culture is a very important part of the experience  operating style is fast‑paced, innovative, and commercially driven. Adequate structure, nimbleness, and speed to market are key attributes of the Company’s culture and critical reason behind continued successes.

Reporting to the Purchasing Manager this position is responsible for managing all the purchasing activities. It is responsible for maintaining effective and cost‑efficient purchasing systems as well as positive supplier relationships; will summarize and report progress and/or roadblocks to management and will also be responsible for balancing supply and demand; will work on special projects and monitoring purchase orders to ensure on time delivery.

• Purchase finished goods and parts based on the balance of supply and demand in an ERP/MRP environment
• Develop and maintain daily capacity information on factories, determine shipping schedules, follow up with factory issues, manage shipping dates, maintain factory forecasts.
• Coordinate point of entry (POE) and direct import (DI) orders
• Work with and balance needs of multiple departments on all purchasing related issues (Sales, Marketing, Inventory Control, Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehousing, etc.)
• Support decision making functions of planning and procurement
• Participate in project teams involving business processes implementation, documentation, and analysis
• Other duties as assigned

• Strong analytical skills, including utilization of Microsoft Excel
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines under pressure in fast‑paced environment
• Strong organizational & communication skills with high attention to detail.
• Strong desire for increased responsibility
• Strong knowledge of People Soft/JD Edwards or other leading ERP/MRP system

• Experience with point of entry orders (POE)

• Adaptable and able to work under pressure – flexible, maintains effectiveness by adjusting behavior and routines to meet a goal and/or changing circumstances.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills – work systematically and logically to resolve technical and non‑technical problems, identify causation, and anticipate unexpected results.
• Attention to detail – directs attention to the task at hand to avoid mistakes, prepares and carefully reviews figures, computations, reports, etc., to identify any errors or problems.
• Business ethics – demonstrates a high level of personal integrity aligned with the company’s ethical standards.
• Communicat…