Purchasing Assistant

Headquartered in New York City, the firm is employee-owned. Chesapeake Advisory is a management and technology consulting firm with 340 employees worldwide.

The position

Chesapeake Advisory has an opening for a Purchasing Assistant. Reports to the Procurement Manager. This role mixes day-to-day purchasing with sourcing projects, including RFQs and supplier changes. The company is based in New York City, the US. The team is spread across multiple countries. We hire in Brazil through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Job duties

Follow purchasing policy and approval limits. Maintain supplier records, price agreements and contracts. Review supplier price increase requests against commodity indexes. Coordinate returns and supplier corrective actions with quality. Identify cost savings and report them monthly. Manage blanket orders and consignment agreements. Resolve invoice and receiving discrepancies with accounts payable. Qualify new suppliers with quality and finance.

Required qualifications

1+ years of purchasing or procurement experience. Comfortable pushing suppliers on dates and price. Strong negotiation skills, with examples of savings you delivered. Organised with dozens of open orders at a time. Working knowledge of contracts, Incoterms and payment terms. Experience with SAP, Oracle, NetSuite or another ERP purchasing module.

Nice to have

Import and customs knowledge. Spend analytics in Power BI.

Why work with us

Public holidays observed per your country. Home office setup budget. Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner. Annual learning budget. Performance bonus.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chesapeake Advisory, LLC.