Purchasing Coordinator

Quality Packaging (Qual Pac) is looking for individuals who have a strong professional ethic, are passionate about innovating for positive change, and are collaborative team players. We have been in business for over 50 years. Our success is due to a culture created by our founder that embodies these principles: Our employees are our most important asset, we stand by our word, and our customer’s needs are our number one priority.

If you are looking for a career where you make a difference with over 1,000 team players, please read on.

The Purchasing Coordinator is responsible for purchasing materials for production at the 5 manufacturing locations. This position works closely with internal stakeholders and external customers to provide support and ensure seamless product supply to our sites. This position will maintain excellent working relationships with customers, vendors and our sites. The Purchasing Coordinator will procure quality materials for our organization that will allow us to drive revenue and cost efficiencies based on projected forecast.

Pay: $25.00/hr

Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• Maintains excellent working relationships with the internal operating and external sales groups
• Works with selected vendors to obtain product information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedule
• Processes PO’s for materials purchases
• Uses demand forecasts to order materials for 5 Frito facilities.
• Adjust PO deliveries at sites based on demand changes.
• Actively manages deliveries to maximize inbound payloads and reduce cost.
• Schedules weekly meetings with site planners to align on goals and improve performance.
• Maintains vendor capabilities and specifications library. This will include material specifications, materials capability by type and gauge, certification log, printing capability by process and quantity requirements and maintain master price list and expiration dates
• Maintains vendor contact data base
• Communicates with vendors and carriers on deliveries and provides information to the sites to ensure optimum production scheduling.
• Maintains supplier pricing
• Provide applicable reports on purchases, returns, credits, inventories upon request.
• Maintains inventory stock levels across all locations to maintain inventory targets
• Provides requested information to the customer (Frito) upon request.

Job Contacts (main interfaces inside and outside the company)

• Supply Chain Managers
• Vendors
• Finance

Educational Background:

• High school Diploma or GED equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

Knowledge/Skills Required:

• Requires a minimum of five years of experience in Purchasing.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrated time management and multitasking
• Able to maintain a high level of business courtesy and etiquette when interacting with Customer Service, vendors, and sales representatives
• Deliver against KPI’s for the purchasing department.
• Experience with purchasing paper-based packaging is required
• Ability to forecast and run MRP
• Knowledge of the CPG industry
• Ability to solve problems independently
• Ability to make decisions quickly and accurately
• Willingness to work additional hours
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be 18 years of age

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• Skills should include intermediate knowledge of MS Outlook and Google Suite. Skills in MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Access a plus.
• Requires excellent interpersonal, communications, and customer relations skills.
• Attention to detail and mental concentration are necessary for accurately performing clerical tasks, balancing multiple priorities and handling frequent interruptions.

About Pro Pac and Qual Pac

Founded in 1971, Professional Packaging Systems (Pro Pac) brings deep knowledge and expertise to provide the best packaging solutions for our customers. We serve every industry, including e-commerce, retail and wholesale food, snack, beverage, specialty manufacturing, fresh produce, hobby and craft, automotive, electronics, pet, cosmetic industries, and many more.

We are headquartered in Grand Prairie, Texas, with regional sales branches in El Paso, and Brownsville, TX; and additional contract packaging / fulfillment operations in Brookshire, TX; Charlotte, NC; and Olathe, KS.

Come join a growing group of honest, knowledgeable, and skilled professionals who are dedicated to offering superior products and services to those we serve!

Visit us at https://www.propac.com/.