Procurement Team Member - Order Analyst
Full-Time Employee
Salary Range: $16-$17.50/ Hourly
Slingshot is an ED Tech company that works with higher ed partners throughout the United States to provide course material subscriptions. We believe students and schools deserve a simpler, smarter way to access course materials. We’re an energetic team of problem-solvers, creatives, and innovators who love building solutions that make higher education better.
We are dedicated to having the right products at the right time to achieve that mission.
Key Responsibilities:
- Initiate, monitor, evaluate, and maintain the accuracy of course material information within a database
- Determine the best method of purchase for all course materials adopted at accounts
- Contact suppliers via written and verbal communications to garner product information
- Sourcing physical products with a wide variety of vendors
- Pricing, submitting, and following up on purchase orders
- Monitoring a shared inbox
- Monitoring outstanding orders to ensure students have their course materials on time
- Communicate with multiple departments to solve problems, create, and carry out resolutions
- Complete special projects or requests as needed
- Meet weekly with team members to discuss upcoming strategies, review progress of the past week, and problem-solve obstacles of specific tasks
Disclaimer:
This is a general description of the role and responsibilities; however, assignments may vary. The variety of tasks depends on the volume of work required for responsibilities within the CMP Team. There may be tasks or duties outside of the normal responsibilities described above.
QualificationsSkills/Qualifications Required:
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and generate alternative solutions
- Candidate must be organized, self-motivated, and goal-oriented
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Must be able to work well within a team atmosphere
- Thrives in a semi-fast-paced environment, effectively balancing multiple priority tasks and competing deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Proactively adapts to changing priorities and readily embraces new processes and workflows
- Must be proficient in moderate-level computer skills, with a working knowledge of MS Office Excel
Desired Skills
- Basic knowledge of Google Suites
- Basic knowledge of Excel Formulas
Skills Required
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and generate alternative solutions
- Organized, self-motivated, and goal-oriented
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work well within a team atmosphere
- Ability to balance multiple priority tasks and competing deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Proactively adapts to changing priorities and embraces new processes and workflows
- Proficient moderate-level computer skills with working knowledge of MS Office Excel
- Basic knowledge of Google Suites
- Basic knowledge of Excel formulas
What We Do
We’re Slingshot, an independent advertising and marketing agency in Dallas, Texas. We believe in pushing up our sleeves and digging in with our clients. Why? It’s all part of how we help people and brands connect. Because when we connect, we learn, we form an understanding and we grow.
