Procurement Associate

Meet Vestis®: For the People Who Make It All Work
At Vestis®, we provide uniforms, workplace supplies, and professional cleaning that help businesses simplify their workday and keep their teams safe, confident, and focused on what matters most. More than a provider, we are a partner in productivity, trusted to keep you running.
Join us and build a career supporting the people who make it all work.

Shift Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-3:30pm
Position Objective
Responsible for acquiring materials and documents to fulfill requests for purchases, including preparing purchase orders and handling inquiries about orders. Follows through with purchase from order placement to fulfillment and ensures order arrives undamaged and on time. Ordering of all Emblems.
Specific Responsibilities

• Examining departmental purchase requisitions for completeness and accuracy necessary to support the buying process
• Seeing that POs are issued, shipped, and received on a timely basis
• Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations
• Contact suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems
• Maintain knowledge of all organizational and governmental rules affecting purchases
• Various Ad-hoc requests supporting the Center Led Procurement process

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Acute sense of urgency, excellent customer service skills and demeanor
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Detail oriented
• Strong command of Microsoft Word and Excel; MS Access a plus
• Knowledge of purchasing practices and procedures

Education
Supply Chain Management, Logistics, and Business Administration
Experience

• Experienced with supplier management
• The position would require 0-2 years of experience

Benefits: Vestis offers a wide array of comprehensive benefit programs and services, including medical, dental, vision, and pension. Employees are eligible for 80 hours of vacation, 40 hours of floating holidays, and paid sick time every year. Employees will also receive 6 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
Location: Toledo, OH

Headquartered in Roswell, GA, Vestis® is the second largest provider in the industry with over 300,000 customer locations and approximately 20,000 teammates across North America. Vestis® is a leader in the B2B uniform and workplace supplies category. Vestis® provides clean and safe uniform services and workplace supplies to a broad range of North American customers from Fortune 500 companies to locally owned small businesses across a broad set of end markets. The Company’s comprehensive service offering includes a full-service uniform rental program, cleanroom and other specialty garment processing, floor mats, towels, linens, managed restroom services, first aid supplies and more.

Vestis® is an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, relation, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

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