Purchasing Generalist - Newark, NJ

Job Details

Job Location:

NEWARK, NJ 07105
Salary Range: $75,000.00 - $95,000.00 Salary/year

The Purchasing Generalist is responsible for procuring raw materials and supplies necessary for box manufacturing. This role involves managing vendor relationships, negotiating pricing, and ensuring timely delivery of materials to support production schedules. The Purchasing Generalist monitors inventory levels, ensures cost optimization, and works closely with production teams to maintain an efficient supply chain. The position requires attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Review and verify the accuracy of 100–200 orders daily, ensuring all order details—including size, quantity, material, and delivery schedule—are correct before processing.
• Coordinate with production and warehouse teams to ensure orders are manufactured and shipped according to customer specifications and quality standards.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies or issues related to order accuracy, collaborating with relevant departments to implement timely corrections.
• Suggest and implement improvements to order processing procedures to increase efficiency, accuracy, and overall customer satisfaction.
• Work closely with customer service, production, and shipping teams to ensure seamless order flow and on-time deliveries.
• Maintain accurate records of order details, discrepancies, and resolutions within the order management system.
• Provide regular reports on order accuracy metrics, trends, and areas for improvement to management.
• Perform additional duties as assigned to support department and company objectives.

• High school diploma or GED required; associate or bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field preferred.
• 2–3 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, or materials management, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong negotiation, vendor management, and sourcing skills.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Knowledge of inventory management, purchasing systems, and production planning processes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across departments.
• Commitment to quality, compliance, and continuous process improvement.

• People First
  - Fosters culture that prioritizes trust and respect, focuses on well-being, growth, and development of employees, emphasizes collaboration and honest, open, and direct communication, is accountable for actions.
• Unique Customer Solutions
  - Listens to customers and understands their unique needs, goes above and beyond to deliver innovative customer solutions, demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Passion to Serve
  - Responds quickly to customer needs, delivers on commitments, exhibits a sense of urgency, demonstrates a commitment to making a positive impact on customers, employees, and communities, embraces empathy, integrity, and compassion in all interactions.
• Agility
  - Quickly adapts to changing customer needs and market dynamics, demonstrates and encourages creativity, flexibility and intelligent risk taking, embraces forward progress and change, open to new ideas.
• Growth Focus
  - Results driven, continuously drives profitable growth, not satisfied with status quo, continuously seeks improvement, embraces stretch goals.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Paid time off (including vacation, sick, and company holidays)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)