Purchasing Agent

3 months ago

Calgary, Canada Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC Full time

**Req ID**:5193**Job Category**:Manufacturing / Truck Driver**Location**:Calgary, AB, CA, T2C 5N5
- At Serta Simmons Bedding, we dare to dream and work differently. We’re proud to be one of the largest bedding manufacturers in North America and lead the way with our iconic brands -** Serta®, Beautyrest®, Simmons® **and **Tuft & Needle®.**
- When you join our company, you become part of winning team that is excited and committed to helping our customers get a good night’s sleep.- Fueled by care for our people and their safety, we provide inspiring career opportunities, competitive benefits, and employee perks, and most importantly, the chance to make a positive impact in the lives of our customers.**What You'll Do**:

- Responsible for planning, scheduling, and negotiating transactions connected with the procurement of materials, supplies, tools, and services. Follows up with vendors as needed. Responsible to purchase all raw materials, facilitating returns, and reconciling inventories.
- Plans, schedules, and handles transactions connected with the procurement of materials, supplies, tools, and servicers. Obtains production schedules, determines order quantities and oversees inventory control system for tick, raw materials, and other materials to support production operations.
- Follows up on orders as needed, resolves vendor problems, and handles related correspondence. Advises Supply Chain Manager of any vendor or purchasing problems or concerns
- Maintains perpetual records on materials and performs physical spot checks and counts on a weekly basis. Assists with audits and leads physical inventories. Investigates and corrects inventory issues including but not limited to negative inventories, ABC Cycle counting, BOM corrections, safety stock and bin locations. Provides reports and 5Why Analysis for the various SQDC boards in the facility.
- Ensures the quality and quantity of incoming materials. Manages returns of defective materials. Provides training and support to material handling staff, regarding material movement and home locations.
- Fosters positive working relationships. Responds proactively to performance concerns, discipline, employee complaints and other employee relations matters
- Maintains and updates various computerized and hard copy files and records including vendor, price, product and material files, receiving reports, and open/completed purchase order records. Reconciles Accounts Payable invoices with receiving reports.
- Coordinates work with Plant management, Sales, Accounts Payable, Shipping, the Product Analyst, and other internal personnel as needed

**How You'll Do It**:

- Solicits bids, analyzes quotes, selects and recommends suppliers who can provide items and services for the most favorable price consistent with quality, quantity, specifications and other factors on an as needed basis. Negotiates, as directed by the Operations manager, with vendors on substitutions, replacements, cost freight, and handling charges (Does not include Corporate Sourcing)
- Maintains knowledge of current trends in the field and attends appropriate training programs to remain current on manufacturing and health and safety issues, to ensure, with the Safety Champion, that appropriate PPE is purchased.
- Produce high quality work under urgent deadlines
- Negotiation skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Computer proficiency with intermediate MS Excel skills and internet research skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills

**What You'll Bring**:

- Required:1-3 years of experience in a Purchasing environment
- Desired: College Diploma/Advances Diploma (Business preferred) or equivalent

**Come Dream with Us**
- When you join Serta Simmons Bedding, you become part of our 150-year legacy of sleep solutions with endless opportunities to impact our future for centuries to come. Once you’re here, you’ll be part of a winning company that invests and supports our team members’ career journeys. We offer competitive benefits, job training, learning and development, and other employee perks such as our employee discount on all products.- Employees are required to comply with COVID policies established by a vendor or customer.**We are an Equal Opportunity Employer**. It is our policy that discrimination against any individual on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability (with or without reasonable accommodations), status as a disabled veteran or veteran of the Vietnam era, or political affiliation is strictly prohibited.**SSH Bedding Canada Co. is proud to provide employment accommodation during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodations please indicate your needs on your cover letter and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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