Sales Operations / Purchasing Coordinator
Full Time • New Orleans (St. Rose)
Benefits:
- Paid Federal Holidays
- Employer Sponsored Savings Plan
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
POSITION SUMMARY
Our St. Rose (New Orleans) Louisiana location is seeking a talented individual who thrives in a quick sales-cycle environment to fill our Purchasing Coordinator position. We receive orders for a wide variety of industrial and office products under various federal, state, and local government contracts. In this role you will be responsible for fulfilling these sales orders in the most profitable and expeditious manner. Because of the need to find alternative solutions for our customers, the ideal candidate has a strong desire to seek out the best deal at the best price. You must be comfortable with the entire order cycle: making dozens of calls per day to suppliers or our government customers, managing backorders, expediting orders, and seeing them through to shipment and completion.
Our St. Rose (New Orleans) Louisiana location is seeking a talented individual who thrives in a quick sales-cycle environment to fill our Purchasing Coordinator position. We receive orders for a wide variety of industrial and office products under various federal, state, and local government contracts. In this role you will be responsible for fulfilling these sales orders in the most profitable and expeditious manner. Because of the need to find alternative solutions for our customers, the ideal candidate has a strong desire to seek out the best deal at the best price. You must be comfortable with the entire order cycle: making dozens of calls per day to suppliers or our government customers, managing backorders, expediting orders, and seeing them through to shipment and completion.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
In order to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties outlined below:
In order to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties outlined below:
- Review the daily flow of inbound sales orders and take responsibility to fulfill assigned orders, including:
- Understand the customer’s needs and requirements on more complex sales orders; suggesting replacement products for discontinued items, as needed.
- Accurately create purchase orders to source products from the supplier with available stock and/or with the best pricing to maximize profit margin.
- Contact suppliers regularly to monitor status of open purchase orders and expedite shipping; update orders status notes in ERP and communicate status to other team members as needed.
- Communicate effectively with customers regarding the status of their orders, obtaining approval for items on extended backorder with suppliers.
- Investigate problem orders and/or returns and monitor until issues are resolved.
- Help maintain the Company’s tax-exempt status with suppliers and provide copies of resale certificates as needed.
- Help achieve quarterly order completion and profitability quotas.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
- Highest level of order management and organizational skills. Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
- Capable of managing the daily order flow process and tracking/reporting progress towards goals.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills to communicate professionally with customers and vendors via email and phone throughout the day.
- Creativity and problem-solving.
- Prior sales and customer service experience required; experience with government and/or military customers is a plus.
- Comfortable with Microsoft Tools: Outlook, SharePoint, Excel, Word, etc.
BENEFITS/PERKS
- Paid Time Off
- Federal Holidays
- Medical / Dental / Life / Disability
- Employer sponsored savings plan
Compensation: $20.00 - $22.00 per hour
Procurement Solutions for the Public Sector
We are a leading independent distributor of equipment, tools and supplies that helps government buyers confidently and easily source the products they need, while also providing independent suppliers with access to sell into the governmental marketplace through one of our federal or state contract agreements/awards. We have a team of experienced people with detailed product knowledge and sourcing expertise to help customers with the entire order fulfillment process.
OUR CUSTOMERS
• All U.S. Government agencies, including all branches of the U.S. military
• Large federal prime contractors working for the U.S. government
• State / local government (county and/or municipal agencies and business partners)
• State / local educational institutions (schools / universities)
HISTORY
• 2005 - Red Hill was launched to sell a wide variety of industrial equipment, tools and supplies to professional buyers across all branches of the federal government
• 2008 - Became an approved GSA federal contractor
• 2019 - Became an approved vendor to the State of Texas
• 2020 - Launched SourceNow as a separate brand to focus specifically on assisting state/local government and educational customers with their procurement needs
• 2022 - Acquired the imaging supplies business of Beyond Technology, which expanded the geographic reach of SourceNow with active customers across 20+ states offering a larger product catalog tailored specifically to meet the needs of both state/local government buyers and educational institutions
• 2022 - Launched HardwareNow which acquired an existing business in Louisiana with a successful 20+ year history selling hardware and industrial products to the public sector through various GSA contract awards. HardwareNow also has long-standing relationships with several large, prime government contractors which support various NASA programs and facilities around the U.S.
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