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$Salary – $50,000
City Experiences is seeking a Purchasing Agent for our Puerto Rico Ferry by Hornblower operation in San Juan.
About the Opportunity:
The Purchasing Agent is responsible to locate potential products or materials for use in the daily operations of the company. The agent will conduct research on the best suppliers, services, goods, vendors, and manufacturers to purchase from. Purchasing Agent will maintain suppliers who are reliable, cost-efficient and produce quality products. Responsible to regularly monitor the organization’s inventory levels to help them understand their purchasing needs and schedule orders. Once products are ordered, Purchasing Agent is responsible for keeping and filing records of these purchase orders, contracts, receipts, and transactions. The activities of the Purchasing Agent require accuracy and organization to meet operation’s needs. This position will interact with all departments which requires good communication skills.
About You:
This person will be adaptable, dynamic, and embody City Experiences’ RESPECT Service System.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Locating suppliers
- Researching goods, services, and materials, evaluating DBE vendors
- Processing purchasing orders and entering them in the accounting system
- Evaluating suppliers by considering price, quality, availability, and other criteria
- Interacting with suppliers to schedule delivery times and resolve shipping errors
- Authorizing payments and maintain receipts, records, and inventories
- Obtain and track Certificates of Insurance from applicable vendors
- Other Duties as assigned.
- Understand and follow all RESPECT procedures that relate to your job duties.
- Work with a “safety-first” attitude.
- Minimize your impact on the environment when at work.
- Treat our customers with RESPECT at all times.
- Advise Supervisor or Human Resources regarding any changes of name, address, or work status as it affects your compensation, benefits, or employment.
- Accurately complete all documentation including payroll and time sheets on a timely basis.
- Know and understand internal policy and external regulatory requirements that relate to your position and department.
- Working weekends and holidays may be required
- Additional job duties as assigned.
Requirements & Qualifications:
- 1-2 years of prior work experience as Purchasing Agent.
- Good organizational skills.
- Proficiency working with Microsoft software, particularly Excel.
- Knowledge of Great Plains accounting software a plus.
- Ability to ensure accuracy in job responsibilities.
- Ability to properly organize and prioritize tasks.
- Honest, dependable, punctual, and hardworking.
- Friendly with a professional attitude, appearance, demeanor, and respectable confidence.
About Us:
City Experiences’ passion is to provide amazing experiences on land and water. Our 40-year success through organic growth and acquisitions has resulted in a portfolio of over 25+ brands that welcome upwards of 30 million guests/riders annually. If you’re an enthusiastic team player who thrives in an environment where communication, creativity, and cooperation are encouraged, this may just be the opportunity for you.
The RESPECT Service System embodies City Experiences’ mission, vision, values and operating principles. By creating a company culture that puts RESPECT at its core, we believe it will drive us to achieve our goal of becoming a Global Experiences and Transportation Leader.
City Experiences is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We prohibit discrimination and or/harassment of any type, including but not limited to discrimination and or harassment based upon race, religion, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, pregnancy or relation medical conditions, childbirth, breastfeeding, parental status, veteran and/or military statue, disability (physical or mental) medical condition, genetic information or characteristics, political affiliation, domestic violence survivor status, marital status, or other characteristics prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Additional, City Experiences participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations.
We encourage qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records to apply.
1 – 2 years: 1-2 years of prior work experience as Purchasing Agent. (required)
