Product Data Associate – Purchasing

Job Summary

Responsible for accurately maintaining item flags in Benco’s ERP system relative to supply chain, supporting buyers in maintaining line item due dates, placing direct ship PO’s as time permits, and ensuring data accuracy for all items. Serve as back up for Product Data Pricing and Merchandising Associates.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience: MS Office; Word, Excel, Outlook. Internet

• Makati employees:
  1. Must have an English comprehension and communication level of 10.
  2. Previous experience working with American companies.
  3. Pass accuracy and reading comprehension tests.

Duties and Responsiblities

• Purchasing Spreadsheet maintenance
• Process daily automated stock and non-stock, manual transfer and obsolete product requests.
• Unit of Measure Changes
• Maintain product data for existing products.
• Maintain facet data.
• Update new / not available items
• Add substitute items and supercedure items
• Update shelf life data
• Set life cycle flags
• Set availability types for items
• Set up make to order/work order and bom structures
• Serial numbers
• Set up new items kits
• Set up no frill items
• Learns dental products through various systems.
• Accurately follow vendor documentation and price lists on SharePoint.
• Multitask between projects and routine responsibilities, including starting something, reaching out to vendor, starting something new, and coming back to original task once vendor responds.
• Displays organization skills. (following up on work started, but halted)
• Displays time management skills.
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills. (English a must)
• Understanding all roles of product data functions including purchasing, merchandising and pricing
• Work both independently and as part of a team.Understands Product Data Associate’s role in helping Benco realize its mission.
• Performs other duties as assigned to support the efficient operation of the department and company.
• Learn tasks and serve as back up for pricing product data and merchandising product data associates

Required Skills

• Exceptional organizational and multitask abilities
• High attention to detail
• Thoroughness
• Ability to work independently
• Results driven
• Able to communicate effectively with internal employees as well as suppliers.
• Good reading comprehension
• Basic research and analytical skills
• Attention to data quality
• Proficient with PC software
• Ability to quickly learn new computer software

Computer Skills

• General Prelude skills. Menus, Slash Commands, Field changes.
• Painless Desktop
• Painless Web
• Painless Mobile
• Lotus Notes
• SharePoint
• Excel I skills
• Photoshop: can save a photo transparent.

KPI's

• Data accuracy
• Timeliness in completion of tasks
• Brisbane
• Facets