Purchasing Coordinator - Laboratories

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Be the connection that keeps everything moving. As an on-site Purchasing Coordinator at Onterris Laboratories in Orange, CA, you'll bridge teams and suppliers, coordinate purchasing activities, and play a key role in supporting day-to-day procurement operations. You'll be responsible for translating internal needs into accurate purchase orders, coordinating with suppliers, and maintaining purchasing documentation. This coordinator acts as a communication hub between internal departments and vendors, ensuring smooth supply chain flow.

Schedule:

Full-Time, Monday - Friday

The compensation range for this role is $25 to $35 per hour, commensurate with experience, skills, and geographic location.

• Serve as a local lead for Coupa purchasing processes, including requisitions, purchase orders, receiving, ordering templates, and routine purchasing workflow support
• Create, process, and manage purchase orders from requisition to delivery and receipt, ensuring transactions are completed accurately and timely in Coupa
• Verify pricing, quantities, supplier information, and purchasing requirements and compliance before processing orders and proactively research discrepancies when identified
• Track orders and shipments, proactively follow up on delays or backorders, and work with suppliers and lab teams to ensure on-time delivery
• Maintain vendor records, contracts, blanket POs, and compliance documentation
• Communicate with suppliers regarding order status, pricing discrepancies, backordered inventory, lead times and other issues; resolve these issues in a timely manner
• Resolve invoice discrepancies with Accounts Payable, laboratory users and suppliers to resolve PO, receipt and pricing
• Support sourcing activities by gathering quotes and comparing pricing and identifying opportunities for cost savings
• Establish and maintain inventory levels and reorder materials as needed to allow for continuous, uninterrupted production
• Work directly with Corporate Procurement Team to onboard new vendors
• Prepare procurement activity reports and maintain organized purchasing records
• Generate utilization reports and track consumable spending trends by laboratory, project, vendor and category
• Develop ordering templates and train users on their usage
• Communicate as the primary site contact with Corporate Procurement team for issues or updates regarding national vendors, pricing lists, and vendor contact information

• Proficiency with procurement/ERP systems (e.g., Coupa, Workday)
• Strong understanding of purchase order and invoicing processes
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with procurement software
• Competence in Microsoft Office and procurement software
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong communication and vendor‑relationship skills
• Organizational and multitasking abilities
• Problem‑solving and adaptability
• Associate or bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, or…