Overview:
Assistant Buyer Job Description:
FALA Technologies is looking for a passionate assistant buyer to support our purchasing department with the selection and procurement of products. The assistant buyer's responsibilities include maintaining positive vendor relations, preparing retail, and pricing strategies, placing, and tracking purchase orders, managing inventory, sourcing, vendor profiles and keeping track of market trends.
Salary: $20.00 - $24.00
Responsibilities:
- Assisting the buyer with the sourcing of the right product mix.
- Writing, placing, and tracking purchase orders.
- Ensuring products are purchased at the right time, to specification and at a good price.
- Negotiating with vendors and building positive, long-term relationships.
- Researching new suppliers and making recommendations to the buyer.
- Preparing competitive retail and pricing strategies.
- Planning, monitoring, and maintaining suitable inventory levels.
- Preparing budgets and forecasting purchasing trends.
- Compiling reports on product performance and statistics.
- Inventory controls
- General Office Protocols
- Customer communications
- Business Phone Protocols
- Emails, Filing, Data Entry
- Daily reports, and log maintenance trackers.
Qualifications:
- Degree or experience in business, economics, marketing, or related field preferred.
- Previous experience in manufacturing business a plus.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure.
- Experience with excel.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
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Company Profile:
FALA Technologies Inc. (FALA), located in Kingston, NY, provides contract manufacturing and supply chain manufacturing / engineering services to build custom equipment and advanced electro/mechanical products for the semiconductor, transportation, military, advanced energy and industrial products sectors