Purchasing Specialist

Healthcare Arizona LLC, a premier mattress manufacturing arm of the MLILY company, is an air-conditioned 650,000sq feet manufacturing plant in Goodyear, Arizona. We manufacture advanced memory foam mattresses that help you sleep cooler and more comfortably through the night so that you wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on whatever the day throws at you.

Job Summary: The Purchasing Specialist is responsible for purchasing raw or semi-finished materials, machinery, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, and/or services necessary for the operation of Healthcare Arizona and may also negotiate contracts. H1B Sponsorship available

Salary Range: $55,000-$62,000/annual salary
Schedule: Monday – Friday. 8am-5pm

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works with company department managers to determine purchasing needs and requirements for production and office products.
• Identifies the most appropriate supplier for the designated product, determine availability, perform comparative pricing, and negotiate pricing, confirm quality of products, and establish delivery requirements/timelines.
• Performs all purchasing functions, such as issuing purchase orders (POs), invoice creation, pricing verification, payment authorization, complete entries into accounting system.
• Inputs and maintains online database of all products; maintains daily inventory update.
• Identifies and resolve all issues related to product quality, pricing, delivery, utilization, loss.
• Performs inventory cycle counts, spot counts and month end reconciliation process; research any variances and authorize appropriate inventory adjustments.
• Updates company on any new products that may be more efficient or cost effective, obsolete products, and product trends.
• Conducts recorded audits of inventory, adjustments and other metrics, and prepares monthly/quarterly/annual reports of findings to management.
• Communicates frequently with all other global HealthCare Arizona factories.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 1-3 years of work experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in MS365, particularly in Excel
• Fluency in Mandarin is a plus

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills and good composition and grammar of the English language.
• Principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of internal customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Active listening

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and make fine discriminations in sound.
• Vision: The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, thoroughness of work.

Environment: The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (such as in typical office or administrative work).

Benefits:

• H1B Sponsorship available
• 401(k) & 401(k) matching
• Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account
• 80 hours of Paid Time Off, 40 hours of Sick Time Off, 12 paid holidays
• Parental leave, Referral Program, Gym Reimbursement

Healthcare Arizona is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (602) 455-1830 or (602) 773-6750. Hiring is contingent upon the successful completion of our background and drug screening process and signed employment agreement. Healthcare Arizona is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.