Purchasing Associate

**Internal Title: Purchasing Associate**

**About Us**:
Sonepar Canada is an independent family-owned company with global market leadership in the business-to-business distribution of electrical, industrial and safety products and related solutions. We are a proud member of the Sonepar Group, the world's largest privately-held electrical distributor. In Canada, we are represented by 9 locally managed electrical and industrial distributors and have over 100+ locations with coverage in 8 provinces.
- **What’s In It For You?**_
- You will be joining a market leader with over 40 years of experience to help you elevate your potential.
- You will be working for the world's #1 privately held business to business distributor of electrical products and related solutions.
- A chance to get involved in the forever growing electrical industry.
- We house the largest inventory to better service our customers and deliver on sales commitments.
- An opportunity for career development across many business departments within our organization.

**Scope of Position**:
Reporting to the Product Manager, this role will be responsible for the timely placement of orders and delivery of materials to meet customer order requirements and maintain stock inventory levels of lighting products.

**Responsibilities**:

- Purchasing material for inventory and non-stock items for branches and customer orders.
- Reviewing Purchase orders and faxing and/or EDI over to vendors
- Monitoring to make sure fax and/or EDI's went through and confirm expected ship dates and updating system.
- Resolving errors on purchase orders as required.
- Investigating and determining what/how/ why material came in incorrectly or damaged (for non conformances).
- Reviewing open Purchase Orders not printed.
- Filing Purchase Orders.
- Assisting with cycle counts.
- Reviewing reports for stock outs and expediting open orders.
- Monitoring price increases and communicating changes as necessary.
- Assisting with stock rotations as needed.
- Reviewing line points/ order points for inventory stock levels.

**Requirements**:

- High School Diploma required.
- Experience with Lighting products an asset.
- Post secondary courses in Purchasing preferred.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office required.
- 3 years experience in a similar role.

**Benefits & Perks**:

- We offer a competitive salary, plus a full set of benefits, including:

- Flexible benefits program allowing you to choose from options that best fit you and your dependents’ needs. Benefit options include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Spending Account & RRSP matching.
- Employee Assistance Program, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Discounts and a career path.
- Regardless of your benefits program, you will receive company paid Life Insurance, and employee paid disability.

Salary Range: 51,000-54,800 base salary + additional annual bonus.

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Sonepar places the planet and diversity and inclusion at the core of its vision driving our business ethos.

Today, Sonepar is the leading distributor of energy-efficient products, pioneering the energy transition and making sustainability a priority. At Sonepar, we firmly believe that every action is crucial in safeguarding the environment, driving our commitment to a more sustainable future. We have accelerated our own transition to efficient generation and use of electrical energy across our business and champion the innovation of sustainable solutions in the market. This commitment is tangible in our detailed Global CSR report, to learn more please visit

**Next Steps**:
**Job Types**: Permanent, Seasonal

Pay: $50,350.00-$54,800.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay

**Experience**:

- purchasing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person