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Emco Corporation, one of Canada's leading wholesale distribution organizations, is looking for a dynamic individual to join our Procurement team in the role of Buyer.
In this position you will be responsible for the consolidation of branch and regional requirements while assisting with the execution of national and regional procurement maintenance.
Duties also include sourcing, pricing,ordering and expediting inventory products from vendors on a local, national and global basis, monitor/track purchases as well as database maintenance.
To be successful in this key role, we believe you should possess a minimum Grade 12 education with an interest (or currently opursiuing) a APICS or PMAC designation. You must work well within a team environment, have exceptional organizational and computer skills with a minimum of two years purchasing experience in a distribution environment.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Additional Skills
- Know and use computer hardware and software
Work Setting
- Private sector
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Windows
- MS Word
- Excel
- Electronic Mail
- Computer terminal