Purchasing and Planning Coordinator
Hazle Township, PA
Full Time
Mid Level
EAM-Mosca Corp. – Buyer/Planner
Title: Purchasing and Planning Coordinator
Job Type: Full Time, Salaried
Reporting Structure: Reports to Director of OperationsEAM-Mosca Corp., Hazle Township PA, a dynamic market leader in the area of end-of-line automated packaging machinery and consumable strapping solutions. We are seeking a driven and experienced purchasing and planning professional.
EAM-Mosca is privately held and retains a unique, focused, entrepreneurial culture. EAM-Mosca also enjoys a blue-chip client base of highly successful North and South American manufacturing companies and has a portfolio of products applicable to a variety of end-use markets. The key to the ongoing success of the business is a system-based product portfolio featuring standard as well as custom engineered packaging machinery solutions and a superior consumable packaging product, complimented by quality technical service and readily available aftersales parts support
Role and Responsibilities:
- Negotiation skills and ability to constantly interface with management and suppliers
- Ability to work in a high-volume environment
- Excellent Reasoning and critical thinking skills
- Displays exemplary ethics and business conduct and performs work cognizant of safe work practices
- Optimize production schedule to minimize cost related to changeover
- Maintain appropriate raw material, packaging supply and finished goods inventories
- Complete cycle counts to ensure the company’s ERP system accurately reflects inventory levels
- Build professional relationships with all key suppliers.
- Review and maintain all supplier and vendor contracts, and terms and conditions.
- Create and implement a practical supplier scorecard; evaluate current supply base.
- Work cross functionally to evaluate and rationalize product offering.
Profile and Background:
- 3-5 or more years professional experience in a manufacturing environment, which includes Purchasing, Planning and Inventory Control functions.
- High School Diploma or some college with at least three (3) years of experience
- A high level of interpersonal and communication skills to work across functional and organizational lines.
- Comfortable with the use of computers and other electronic media including an understanding of word processing and Excel spreadsheet software. Effective written and verbal communication.
- Highly adaptable and flexible to accept new ideas, people, and procedures and adapt to a changing environment.
- The ability to organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines.
Additional Preferred
- Professional Certification APICS/CPIM desired.
- Certified Purchasing Professional (CPP) Certification desired.
- Experience with AS400 and/or SAP highly desirable
- Experience in a manufacturing company desired.
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