Job Details
POSITION SUMMARY
The Production Purchaser will be responsible for supporting Operations with purchase requests from key departmental stakeholders, soliciting price quotes from vendors, creating purchase orders, managing goods receipts, and reconciling outstanding purchase transactions. You will work in an office setting but will at times need to fulfill travel requirements and work on site.
THE ROLE
- Partner with Production Operations staff to understand business needs and purchase appropriately
- Convert vendor price quotes into Purchase Orders
- Raise timely and accurate Purchase Orders for time-sensitive Production needs
- Goods Receipt Purchase Orders, ensuring timely financial recognition
- Reconcile outstanding purchase transactions for timely resolution
- Research, analyze and determine spend data to identify cost saving opportunities, with an emphasis on production and operations spend
- Partner with Operations, Finance, Procurement personnel to maintain communication channels across key stakeholder departments to provide efficient and effective purchasing support
- Ensure timely submission of documents for new vendor setup
- Develop strong vendor relationships, ensuring win-win results
- Special projects and tasks as assigned
ADDITIONAL NOTES
- We are a small team that works together to meet common goals. In addition to purchasing specific goals you may be asked to perform physical tasks such as loading and unloading trucks, coiling cable, or racking equipment.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Prior media and entertainment production experience preferred
- Familiarity with video equipment and/or event management is a plus
- Must have previous purchasing or vendor relations experience
- Strong foundation and proven experience in finance and business concepts and applications
- Ability to analyze and support vendor negotiations
- Proven ability to navigate through Excel (i.e., V-look up, pivot table, formula driven, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to work in a team environment
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities