Title:Purchasing Analyst
Location:Beaverton, OR
Duration:3 months contract
NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a Purchasing Analyst for the North America Marketplace. They will be creating, managing, and maintaining the orders to ensure product is delivered to the marketplace to help bring to life each season's excitement and story. Key areas that this job entails; serving our cross functional partners, reducing cost of creating supply, ensuring we delivery product on time and making sure we uphold world class business practice when it comes to managing orders.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
Bi-Monthly inventory purchases to support North American Marketplace
Provide on time communication to cross functional partners around inventory and purchase order issues
Execute different tasks that would impact supply delivery and product manufacturing
Provide support for different strategy from our partners that would help shape the marketplace
Connecting with consumer planners and report out post buy results and issues
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will be interacting with cross functional partners such as Liaison officers, Factory, Trading Company, Marketplace Supply Chain, Supply and Inventory Planners, Global Supply Planners, Trade and Transportation and other special projects.
WHAT YOU BRING
Required:
Well versed in excel
Can take data and decipher it, then figure out what the next steps are,
Able to problem solve
Has a sense of urgency and is organized
Ideal Candidate:
SAP or an ERP system - end to end for sales orders and purchase orders
Supply chain and operations experience is a plus
Curious, problem solver, can handle ambiguity, proactive communicator