Our Design Design Warehouse is located in Wyoming, MI, and is currently looking to add a full-time Purchasing to the team. If you're looking to join a growing company with a culture focus, then this may be a great opportunity for you!
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate on the development of best practices in areas of key influence - inventory control, production, forecasting for demand, ERP optimization, negotiating, etc.
- Evaluate, monitor, and report on inventory levels across all Convivial Brands' companies to ensure proper in-stock rates for all inventory items.
- Monitor logistics with vendors for all incoming shipments, both overseas and domestic.
- Identify and maintain acurate and timely data in the ERP system.
- Maintain relationships with established suppliers to minimize costs, maximize service, and ensure timely delivery of all product lines.
- Maintain an awareness of the in-stock levels and forecast potential risks of overbuying and underbuying.
- Create, update, and maintain documentation of cost standards per item, per treatment, etc.
- Actively research and compare vendors to find the best combination of product quality and price effectiveness available.
- Optimize the use of the ERP system for the Supply Chain function - adding to the operations guidelines, scrubbing, forecasting and product transportation accuracy, etc.
- Partner with inventory management, sourcing, distribution center operations, and logistics teams to investigate problems and develop a solution to maintain an efficient supply chain.
- Assist in additional Supply Chain projects and any other duties/responsibilities as assigned.
What's in it for you?
- You'll be joining an established, cohesive Warehouse team at a growing company. There will be opportunities to challenge yourself and opportunities for growth and development.
- We offer competitive pay and benefits! We have 8 company-paid holidays, a generous Paid Time Off Bank (PTO), and our benefits are robust and affordable. Full-time employees currently get company-paid life insurance (1 timesThis your annual salary) and company-paid short-term and long-term disability. We also offer extras like legal coverage, identitiy protection, and pet insurance! And let's not forget the employee discounts that we offer on each of our brands' products/services - Design Design, Style Life, Verdant Graphics, Tableau, and The High Five Grand Rapids.
Who We Are:
At Convivial Brands, everything we do revolves around Making Life Better - which includes creating opportunities, products, and a culture that strives to do just that. The physical products we make help people celebrate and enhance life, sometimes in small, quiet ways, and other times in big statements. From celebrating a wedding to giving a small gift of appreciation, each brand produces an end product that intends to make life friendly, lively, and jovial - ergo, making life Convivial. This is achieved through operating within our Core Values of being trustworthy, pursuing excellence, and exemplifying a team first mindset. Those three values are what guides our day-to-day operations and ensures we are moving in the right direction the right way. As our brands continue to expand and grow, we're looking to add new team members who do not just maintain our culture, but who strive to add value and help us continually improve. Our goal is transform work from an obligation to a passion!
Convivial Brands Diversity and Inclusion Statement:
Convivial Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our most valuable asset. Our employees' individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent - and the way they invest their unique identities in their work - are a significant part of our culture, our reputation, and our achievements. We embrace and encourage our team members' differences in age, colore, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristices that make our team members unique. Convivial Brands' diversity initiatives apply to all parts of the employment experience, including but not limited to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; social and recreational programs; layoffs and separations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
