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A bout the Company:

ANS provides industry-leading nutritional solutions to promote health and wellbeing, enabled by a world class team dedicated to service, excellence, quality, and innovation.

As an organization we take pride in achieving our objective of “More than Supplements... Solutions”...Safely. We want to be a “solution” through an engaged, accountable and CARING culture.

If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a company that offers exceptional benefits packages, then you have come to the right place!

· Most Competitive Pay in the Industry

· 401K Program

· Paid holidays

· Paid Time Off

· Medical/Dental benefits

· Employee and Family Events

· Annual Awards Program

· Best Employee Referral Program

The Opportunity…

· Strong track record of internal promotions

· Comprehensive Training program to encourage promotions

· Detailed Progression model to outline promotional opportunities

· Cross-functional opportunities to multiple different areas in the company

Support manufacturing through procurement of raw materials and components. Execute supply chain strategies to capture cost savings and improve lead-time, while managing out-of-stocks on raw materials. Develop supplier relationships to secure the best quality materials at the greatest value for our customers. Provide timely and accurate information for internal employees.

· Follow all company policies and procedures.

· Follow and ensure compliance to quality system and cGMP programs.

· Follows the established ordering schedule for routine orders.

· Works with accounts payable to resolve invoice discrepancies.

· Works with other departments to identify and prioritize the handling of rush orders.

· Identifies back order items and follows up with the areas that the back order will affect.

· Performs other duties as assigned.

· Manage the order fulfillment process, which may include all activities from quote to delivery of product, as dictated by the scope of business needs.

· Manage the general purchasing process, which includes creation of Purchase Orders, confirmations, issue resolution, returns, replacements, order status, analyzing, reporting, etc.

· Review, update, and maintain purchase order details until the order is closed and assess purchase order history to help ensure deliverables are met.

· Identify and implement actions to achieve efficiencies in our daily processes.

· Use metrics and key performance indicators to continuously improve and drive change with our team, internal customers, and internal stakeholders.

· Communicate regularly with internal customers to ensure timely product delivery and prioritization of purchasing activities.

· Communicate and troubleshoot issues with internal stakeholders.

· Manage expedited deliveries and conduct needed follow-up to assure customer satisfaction.

· Work closely with Commodity Manager with various assigned tasks related to measuring and reporting on risk position related to assigned commodities

· Work closely with Commodity Manager for daily execution of assigned commodities, commodity pricings with sales force, customers and vendors.

· Support documentation requirements for various products.

Qualifications:

· Non-supervisory role.

· Must have a college degree.

· Five years of work experience.

· No certifications or licenses required.

· Must have good math skills.

· Excellent computer skills needed.

· Must have good written and verbal communication skills

· Must be willing to learn new tasks and procedures.

· Ability to efficiently and effectively perform all essential position duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation without posing a direct safety threat to self or others.

· Maintain a regular and dependable work attendance record with few instances of unplanned and/or unexpected absence.