Purchasing Administrator

**Red-D-Arc is a subsidiary of Airgas, an Air Liquide company, and a leading provider of welding equipment rentals in North America. Red-D-Arc rents, leases and sells welders, welding automation equipment and other welding-related and specialty products, including power generators as well as equipment for heat treating and dry ice blasting.**

**How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?**:
**This is a 1 year contract**

Under the direction of the Procurement Manager this position is responsible for providing support to company personnel executing procurement transactions, maintaining the accuracy and completeness of procurement processing, and coordinating multiple procurement related projects to improve procurement efficiency, vendor performance, and reduce input cost. This position supports purchasing efficiencies and controls put in place by the Procurement Manager.
- Ensures a safe work environment by following Airgas/Red-D-Arc’s health and safety guidelines
- Recognizing that the Red-D-Arc procurement function is decentralized, coordinate vendor management activities cross functionally with Fleet, Product Management, and Corporate Operations
- Take direct responsibility for vendors managed by the central procurement function including national vendors providing non inventory goods and services and other vendors identified to be managed by the central procurement

function
- Working cross functionally with AP, monitor procure to pay transaction processing across the company and provide end user support to facilitate efficient transaction processing
- Monitor the procure to pay transaction processing environment to ensure accuracy and completeness, work with end users to maintain the currency of procurement documents, troubleshoot end user problems, provide assistance in

correcting problems
- Setup master data and process procurement transactions for centralized functions including new item setups and updates, pricing updates, vendor updates, workflow processing, confirmation journal processing, purchase order

processing
- Manage and/or coordinate a running list of small projects to continuously improve the procurement environment. Projects include new vendor setups, consolidated invoice processing, external catalogs, automated pricing updates
- Develop and maintain procure to pay processes and documentation and work across departments to continuously provide training and development opportunities

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**Are you a MATCH?**:
**Education**
- Post-secondary degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years work experience in related field preferred
- Relevant certifications are an asset

**Skills**
- Must be able to work effectively through a matrix organization spanning operations in 8 countries
- Must be able to work well both independently and within the operations team to drive highly cross functional change indicatives with complex change management activities
- Must be able to proactively and methodically deal with conflicting goals and challenging situations.
- Adaptable to set and prioritize work with varying exceptions. Able to work with diverse personalities and styles.
- Must have excellent technical knowledge as well as strong interpersonal skills.
- Computer skills to produce effective spreadsheets, reports, documents and presentations, as required.
- Knowledge of MS Office.
- Communicates with clarity, verbally in one on one or group situations, and over the telephone.
- Communicates well in writing by composing clear documents.
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**Your differences enhance our performance**

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.