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Purchasing/Shipping/Receiving Agent

Industry: Life Sciences

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Purchasing/Shipping/Receiving Agent

This position is responsible for all purchasing activities for my client including: placing orders, tracking orders, distribution of orders received, negotiation of favorable pricing, maintenance of the chemical inventory database, and providing required accounting information to the Office Manager or CFO in a timely manner. Individual must have an understanding of chemical structure, nomenclature and regulatory requirements (cGMP, DOT, EPA).

Minimum Requirements:
  • B.S. degree in Chemistry from accredited college or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years prior experience as a purchasing agent; preferably within the chemical or pharmaceutical industries.
  • Aptitude in information technologies.
  • Good inter-personal skills and ability to successfully negotiate favorable pricing.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

  • Familiarity with Global chemical procurement.
  • Computer literate with ability to effectively utilize a variety of commercial software.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Obtaining best price and availability data for materials needed for Ash Stevens projects and customer requests for quotation.
  • Timely ordering, receiving, and distributing supplies.
  • Maintenance of searchable computer database of all chemicals. The database must include chemical name, quantity, location, and requestor.
  • Maintenance of shipping supplies (forms, packing materials etc.).
  • Daily summary of shipping charges.
  • Daily breakdown of invoices by account numbers.
  • Monthly charge-off data (by project/compound number, analysis charges, and all shipping charges) to Office Manager or CFO not later than the 7th day following the end of the month.
  • Maintenance of neat, organized filing system affording members of ASI’s management team easy access to all purchasing data in the absence of the purchasing agent.

Location: Detroit, MI 


Compensation: 75K 


If you are interested in learning more about this position, please send your resume to
jkaleck@kleinhersh.com


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For additional information about this job, please contact: jkaleck@kleinhersh.com