Supply Chain Specialist

💼Position: Senior R&D Supply Coordinator#1022854

Pay range: $30-32/hr on W2

🏢Position Overview

Responsibilities

Supply and Purchasing Coordination

• 🔹Independently coordinate supply requests and purchasing activities, including approved software and service purchases, through established processes.
• 🔹Resolve routine exceptions such as delivery delays and incomplete information and escalate non routine exceptions to Procurement or the responsible manager with the relevant facts.
• 🔹Assess request urgency and timing and communicate delivery expectations and risks to requesters.
• 🔹Work with laboratory and site teams to anticipate supply shortages and upcoming supply needs.

Supplier and Procurement Partnership

• 🔹Coordinate availability, delivery, and service questions with suppliers, and partner with Procurement on sourcing questions, approvals, and supplier concerns.
• 🔹Identify potential purchasing cost opportunities, such as repeated requests for similar items, and bring them to Procurement.

Financial and Documentation Support

• 🔹Partner with Finance to track spending, reconcile invoice discrepancies, and keep purchase, supplier, and expense records complete and current.
• 🔹Provide regular spending updates to requesting teams.

Improvement and Knowledge Sharing

• 🔹Suggest practical changes to supply coordination processes and help implement approved improvements.
• 🔹Share process knowledge with peers as needed.

🛠️Required Skills and Competencies

• 🔸Experience with purchasing, order coordination, and invoice reconciliation within established processes.
• 🔸Ability to work independently, prioritize competing needs, and use sound judgment on when to escalate.
• 🔸Clear communication and the ability to build working relationships with requesters, suppliers, Procurement, and Finance.
• 🔸Strong organization and attention to detail in records and documentation.
• 🔸Working knowledge of request management, purchasing, and business software, and strong spreadsheet skills.

🎓Education and Experience

• 🔹High school diploma or equivalent, or an associate degree in business administration, supply chain management, or a related field.
• 🔹3 or more years of experience in supply chain, purchasing, or vendor management.

✨Preferred Qualifications

• ✨Professional certification such as CPSM, CSCP, or CPPB is preferred but not required.
• ✨Experience in a laboratory, engineering, medical device, or other regulated setting.
• ✨Physi…