Sales and Purchasing Coordinator

Role & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Purchasing team to implement and maintain scanner and barcode procedures, enabling accurate physical inventory counts within MRO and system-based inventory management.


• Work with Purchasing and MRO management members to ensure optimal inventory levels are maintained for all company supplies and consumables.


• Provide support or execute to the Purchasing team for order placement, delivery tracking, follow-up, and acknowledgment of receipt. Liaise with other departments to facilitate the on-time delivery of procured items.


• Implementation and ongoing maintenance of 5S practices across the desk, the MRO area, the Purchasing/Sales department  allocated server space.  Overseeing the management of all customer and supplier information.

Cost reduction initiatives via periodic purchase price reviews.

• Collaborate with other internal departments to research alternative sources and substitute products, confirm quality, and investigate appropriate pricing for purchased items.


• Coordinating import/export logistics from domestic and international suppliers, including collaboration and follow-up with freight forwarders.


• In the Sales department, being responsible for obtaining up-to-date information through close customer communication and sharing it promptly within the company, or providing support for these tasks.


• In response to customer demands, supplying information, quotes, and necessary documents by the set deadlines, or providing support for these tasks.


• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree strongly preferred in Business or relevant field


• Highly dependable


• Ability to communicate well with customers and suppliers


• Strong negotiation and customer relation skills


• Plex experience helpful


• Purchasing/quoting/logistics experience


• Strategic sourcing experience showing responsibilities progression


• Experience executing sourcing processes including due diligence, analysis, program

development, negotiating/contracting, and supplier management

Environmental and Physical Demands:

The environmental conditions and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the essential duties of this job the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, sharp objects and constant loud noise.  The employee is regularly required to:  use their hands to touch and handle objects; hear; see, including close vision; stand for long hours; stoop; kneel; bend; and occasionally lift up to 30 pounds.

About JSC:
Jefferson Southern Corporation, or JSC, is a Tier One automotive supplier. This means that we produce and sell parts that are ready to be installed in automobiles.  Our parts are stamped out of steel and then welded.  We produce several parts that are part of the “white body” or interior shell of the car.  These parts are not very visible after the vehicle is completed, but they are vital to the strength, safety and performance of the car.
Jefferson Southern Corporation offers our employees a variety of benefit programs to meet their needs. Jefferson Southern Corporation provides Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability,  Telemedicine coverage, and 401K for all employees and some benefits are at no cost.