Purchasing Agent

Huish Outdoors is passionate about dive and watersports. We develop products that fuel the human spirit for adventure, keep people active, exploring, and enjoying our world's aquatic environments. We are a team who is passionate about what we do, and we are. Our team is made up of amazing people who are outdoor enthusiasts that embrace and drive change.

The Purchasing Agent will be responsible for managing inventory, placing stock and replenishment orders, minimizing back orders, and maintaining fulfillment rate goals. This role is critical to the success of Huish Outdoors, and this position will work with Brand Managers and the sales team to ensure inventory levels are appropriate to meet the needs of our customers. The Purchasing Agent will play a key role on our supply chain team, and will strive to deliver wow to our customers.

KEY RESPONSBILITIES

• Deliver on Supply Chain KPIs including but not limited to stocking levels, inventory turns,
  fulfillment rates, and backorders.
• Ensure alignment between Brand activity and finance to deliver on key cash initiatives
  while meeting/exceeding forecast.
• Manage inventory turns, phaseout/EOL inventory, and MRB for assigned brands.
• Analyze and report on inventory levels of finished goods and raw materials. Assist in
  tracking trends of increasing or decreasing sales & consumption to forecast future
  demand.
• Assist manufacturing teams by reviewing BOMs and work orders to ensure production
  flow is constant.
• Review consumption levels for manufacturing facilities and display the ability to manage
  multiple vendors without difficulty.
• Work with vendors to negotiate pricing and lead times for orders. Ensure that orders are
  placed with enough advanced planning to meet customer demand.
• Hold vendors accountable to confirmed lead times. Update ship and in stock dates in
  ERP system for increased visibility in other departments.
• Coordinating inbound and outbound shipments from vendors and all Huish Outdoors
  operating locations. This includes providing all proper documentation to both our trade
  partners and internal teams.
• Responsible for processing Vendor RAs in ERP system in a timely manner to ensure
  proper credit is issued to company and inventory levels are accurate.
• Responsible for proper receiving of all inventory shipments in Salt Lake City warehouse.
  This includes properly assigning all duties and landed costs to properly burden
  inventory.
• Create inter-company transfer orders for items needed between warehouses to alleviate
  over/under stock.
• Work closely with the warehouse team to maintain accurate inventory levels. Perform
  cycle counts, inventory adjustments, and assembly builds.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in related field with 3-5 years related work experience
• Experience with ERP systems, NetSuite experience preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
• Proficient ability to communicate effectively with others using written and spoken English
  including the ability to provide clear, constructive feedback to vendors.
• Knowledge of parts associated with Scuba Diving beneficial
• Ability to assertively solve strategic problems and deal with a variety of concrete
  variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills.