Shared Purchasing Coordinator

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Winsupply is in the business of creating and enabling entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams through wholesale distribution. Winsupply is a group of over 670 locally‑owned companies that operate across a variety of industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical and more. The purpose of the support services campus is to eliminate obstacles and provide support to help our entrepreneurs succeed. Support‑service employees assist entrepreneurs in achieving their dreams through finance, accounting, IT, and other back‑office operations.

Winsupply Sourcing Services (WSS) operates approximately 2 million square feet of wholesale warehouse and yard space, while offering inventory and vendor management, to be the premier vendor partner for our customer base. Our customer base consists of aspiring entrepreneurs who own and operate their own wholesale distribution businesses, now over 650 local companies nationwide. This role provides the opportunity to have a direct impact on the success of entrepreneurial small businesses across the United States, particularly those that contract with Shared Purchasing Solutions as a service of WSS to improve their inventory levels and turnover from both outside vendors and vendors within the Winsupply Family of Companies.

In this role, you would be cooperatively managing multiple local‑company inventory purchasing on selected product lines.

• Establish regular communication and relationship trust‑building activities with multiple local‑company contacts.
• Manage the local‑company inventory procurement process for product lines of multiple local‑company’s choosing.
• Act on behalf of the local companies to issue purchase orders to vendors.
• Maintain the WSS purchasing software suite of systems including WISE, Trucommerce/Datalliance, and others.
• Perform initial item onboarding, then ongoing maintenance tasks and alert resolution in the various purchasing software systems to ensure that replenishment orders are generated as efficiently as possible.
• Adapt and integrate the above multiple software programs to provide seamless service to local companies.
• Monitor and manage contracted product lines with regard to fill rates, stockouts, inventory turns, and days on hand.
• Review and analyze historical data to assist in developing and recommending inventory strategies to the local companies.
• Review and present key performance metrics at least annually to all assigned local companies.
• Generate reporting of suggested returns of contracted product lines.
• Actively recruit and retain local- company purchasing contract agreements.
• Implement solutions to bring performance metrics within departmental benchmarks.
• Network with senior internal personnel to make effective business decisions.
• All other duties as assigned, including up to 10% overnight travel as necessary.

B.S./B.A. in Business, Logistics, Supply Chain or related field and/or 2+ years of relevant purchasing experience. Prior experience with purchasing software and inventory management is preferred. Proficient with office technology and software.

Detail oriented; analytical / critical thinking; data analysis; effective communication; customer‑focused mindset; deadline driven.

• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse
• Extended work hours at month end and during year end

Seniority Level: Entry level

Employment type:

Full‑time

• Purchasing

• Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting

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