Purchasing Agent (m/f), Christchurch in Christchurch, Canterbury
Your tasks:
- Research and evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history
- Hire, train, or supervise purchasing clerks, buyers, and expediters
- Formulate policies and procedures for bid proposals and procurement of goods and services
- Write and review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods or services to be purchased
- Evaluate and monitor contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and todetermine need for changes
- Negotiate, renegotiate, and administer contracts with suppliers, vendors, and other representatives
- Attend meetings, trade shows, conferences, conventions, and seminars to network with people in other purchasing departments
- Purchase the highest quality merchandise atthe lowest possible price and in correct amounts
- Confer with staff, users, and vendors to discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services and determine corrective action
Your skills:
- Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems
- Managing one's own time and the time of others
- Monitoring/assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
- Talking to others to convey information effectively
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things
- Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design
- Using mathematics to solve problems
- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do
Location
Christchurch
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