Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations as their most reliable, innovative, and trusted lab resource.
We achieve this by partnering with customers to solve their most pressing day-to-day challenges and always holding ourselves to a higher standard of product quality, exceptional service, and unmatched support.
Summary/objective
The Procurement Specialist will be responsible for primarily driving opportunities for
cost savings on our entire product portfolio with all of our current products and any new
products.
This role involves sourcing products, alternate and new vendors, vendor
management, and mitigating supply chain risk.
The Procurement Specialist will build
relationships with suppliers and negotiate with them for optimal pricing while maintaining
numerous vendor relationship/management reports such as the approved supplier list
and vendor scorecards.
Strong focus on achieving department and corporate KPI target
goals.
Essential functions
• Actively seek out current selective products in the portfolio that can be
sourced elsewhere for cost savings.
• Source special order non-stocking items and new items as needed.
• Actively seek out alternative vendors for key products in order to mitigate
supplier risk.
• Monitor parts sourcing status for key items and assist as needed.
• Maintain and complete vendor scorecards for Tier 2 vendors.
• Maintain approved supplier list with input from management.
• Collect and maintain required documentation for active items.
• Locate and vet alternate suppliers for existing consumable product lines.
• Search for new products and/or vendors as needed by the commercial
team's product requests.
• Analyze backorder reports for alternate sourcing opportunities.
• New item setup and item updates/corrections in ERP system as needed.
• Supporting Commercial and Product teams with sample requests, new
item requests, product issues, etc.
• Create and maintain relationships with suppliers.
• Work with suppliers to obtain pricing discounts, pricing breakdowns,
minimum order quantities, and lead times.
• Update systems with new or replacement product information, vendors,
and pricing.
• Work with commercial/marketing on maintaining products on website.
• Communicate with commercial team on any urgent product replacement requests.
Competencies
• Positive work ethic and the ability to work both independently and as part
of a team.
• Organizational skills and high attention to detail.
• Able to effectively communicate and work with many different teams and
departments.
• Proficient in Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Capable of navigating an ERP system
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing
priorities.
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate both internally and externally
and manage those relationships.
• Work well as part of a team as well as independently with minimal
oversight and handle ambiguous situations/tasks.
• Strong negotiation skills
• General knowledge of the end-to-end procurement process and supply
chain principles.
Avantik is an integrated medical products and services company delivering superior quality instruments, reagents, consumables, and service to the anatomic pathology market consisting of hospital, reference, and physician office laboratories in the US.
The company is headquartered inMontville Township, NJ.
Avantik's experienced team and consultative partner approach integrates consumables, service, equipment, and education so that labs focus on what matters most - having everything under control in their laboratory to deliver fast and accurate diagnoses.
Avantik offers a full line of consumables and reagents for the histology lab sourced and private label Avantik branded and by distribution of other brands.
Avantik has serviced all brands of OEM histology lab equipment for over 40 years and offers best-in-class responsiveness and an industry leading 97% first time fix-rate.
Avantik offers a team orientated, customer service focused environment with competitive compensation, bonus programs, medical (company covers 80% of the cost), dental and vision insurance, 401K (with a match) and more.
Learn more at www.avantik-us.com
Avantik is an Equal Opportunity Employer.