Purchasing Specialist

Position Title:

Purchasing Specialist Work Location:

Lake County, 60085

Assignment Duration:

6

Months Work Arrangement:

Onsite Position Summary:

Provide operational support to purchasing and procurement operations activities.

Background & Context:

Core responsibilities include creating shopping carts, creating purchase orders (POs), following purchase orders through the full lifecycle, submitting contract requests, tracking contract-request progress, resolving vendor-related issues, supporting invoice-resolution activities, managing vendor-change requests, and coordinating purchasing-process follow-through.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create shopping carts and purchase orders.
• Follow purchase orders through the full lifecycle.
• Submit contract requests and track progress.
• Resolve vendor-related issues and support invoice resolution.
• Manage vendor-change requests.
• Coordinate purchasing-process follow-through.
• Provide work product and results on time, accurately and consistent with expectations.
• Communicate complex, technical issues clearly (verbal and written).

Prioritize multiple tasks/projects with strong organizational skills.

Qualification & Experience:

• Strong purchasing/procurement support experience.
• Experience supporting shopping carts, purchase orders, contract requests, vendor coordination, invoice follow-up, and purchasing-process tracking.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end purchase-order lifecycle management.
• SAP and SRM experience strongly preferred.
• Strong communication skills, customer-service orientation, organization, detail orientation, and follow-up capabilities.
• High School diploma required; Bachelor's degree strongly preferred.
• Prior pharmaceutical, biotech, or regulated environment experience preferred.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple stakeholder groups.