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JAMCO AMERICA, INC.

Job Title: Buyer-1 Export

*FLSA Status: *Non-Exempt

*Salary Range: *$25.10-$27.90

Summary 

Proactively communicate with customers regarding orders, including price, delivery options, specifications, and quality.  Work under supervision to prepare RFQ, place orders with supplier, and follow-up to insure on-time delivery to customer. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities* include the following with other duties as assigned:*

• Coordinate price, delivery options, specifications, quality and other customer requirements.  Provide timely response to customer's inquiries.
• Maintain procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality and on time delivery performance.
• Solve problems on defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
• Determine the best supplier to meet customer's needs, and provide quotation. 
• Receive PO from customer and generates purchase orders. 
• Review / Monitor internal inventory stock if necessary.
• Consult catalogue/website and confer with vendors to obtain product or services information such as price, availability, and delivery schedules.
• Prepare bid requests and review bid proposals, comparing prices, specifications, and delivery date to select best value for goods required.  
• Prepare purchase order and send it to supplier.
• Expedite delivery of goods to customers. 
• Obtain technical data or other information from supplier per customer's request.
• Manage suppliers for on time delivery.
• Provide delivery information to customers.
• Coordinate shipping arrangement and shipping instructions with forwarder, customer and Export team.
• Provide commercial invoices to customers.
• Work with accounting team, suppliers, and customers for any price discrepancy issues.

• Coordinate with freight forwarder, supplier, inspectors, and customer for any rejected items.

   

Supervisory Responsibilities 

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

*Qualifications  *

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbal and written.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.

• Professional with proven organizational and time management skills.

   

All external hiring is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen and a criminal background check.

Requirements

Education and/or Experience: 

Ability to meet qualifications, common business sense, sense of teamwork. 

Position requires the completion of high school, supplemented by basic job-related courses or training in a non-technical or vocational field and at least one year of international sales and/or purchasing and/or customer service experience. *Bilingual Japanese Required

Language Skills 

Ability to read and interpret documents such a safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.  

Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effec