Purchasing Assistant

6 months ago


Edmonton, Canada Scandinavian Building Services Full time

Scandinavian Building Services has been a Canadian leader in retail and commercial cleaning for the last 60 years. Starting as a small family owned and operated business in Edmonton Alberta in 1982 to offering full service janitorial and building maintenance across Canada today. We attribute our success to staying true to our core values of Service, Motivate, Respect, and Connect. As we continue to grow we are looking to add a **Purchasing Assistant **to the Scandi Family

This is a permanent full time in office position based out of our Edmonton Head office. Working hours Monday to Friday 8am - 4:30pm.

**What's in it for you**:

- **Awarded one of Canada's Best Managed Companies**:We're committed to a high level standard of excellence for both clients and our Scandi Family.
- ** Growth Opportunities**: A place to hang your hat. We want our employees to grow with us long term.
- ** Stability and Job Security**: Even through tough economic times we've continued to steadily grow, and we aren't slowing down any time soon. With a strong national presence across Canada
- ** Family First Culture**: We are and have always been a family owned and operated business. We have family friendly events year-round and affectionately call our team members the Scandi Family.
- ** Benefits**: We offer a comprehensive medical and dental plan as well as personal days off.

**What your day to day will look like**:
Reporting to the Director of National Procurement you will provide procurement support to our Scandinavian operations group including area managers (AM), regional directors (RD) and owner operators (OO). In this role you will be using a combination of different software in your role; Sage Legacy, Excel, Proprietary CRM, and Kissflow.
- Purchase all products and service requests, receive stock and non-stock items ensuring specifications, quality and inventory levels are correct.
- Monitor and communicate deliveries of items between suppliers, transfers of equipment to different sites, and prepare stock orders.
- Meet with vendors establishing strong working relationships and negotiating best pricing.
- Assist with the shipping, receiving, organizing, storing and issuing of cleaning supplies, equipment and chemicals for timely deliveries.
- Perform data entry and process purchase orders.
- Process monthly shop sales, repair order, daily dol and invoices for the Accounting department in a timely manner and transfer to spreadsheet for tracking.

**What you'll need to succeed**:

- 1-2 years minimum administrative or purchasing experience.
- Post secondary education in Purchasing/ Supply chain management is preferred.
- Ability to prioritize in a fast paced environment with outstanding communication and organization skills.
- Growing company so flexibility and adaptability required.

**Our interview process**:

- 20 minute preliminary phone interview with our Recruiter
- 20-40 minute to an hour assessment (depending on optional practice questions or breaks).
- 45 minute in person interview with the Hiring Manager and direct Supervisor for the role


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