Inventory Specialist

**What we’re looking for:
Education: Min. ITE or equivalent certification and above

Experiences: 2years relevant experience in material handling/inventory replenishment or customer service

Others: Environmental Health Safety knowledge is a plus. Cross-referencing and inside sales experience a plus

Collaboration: Microsoft Teams experience preferred

**Who you are**:

- Conform to all customer requirements for background checks, health and safety issues, security clearances, and medical checkups.
- Knowledge of Information Access and System ESS; intermediate computer skills including Microsoft Office with proficiency in Word and Excel
- Solid understanding and experience in either shipping, inventory, or purchasing
- Excellent Customer Service Skills; displays a professional can-do demeanor
- High regard for safety, quality, and adherence to protocols, policies, and procedures
- Ability to self-manage and self-motivate; forward-thinking
- Ability to prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines
- Knowledge of VWR’s products and services
- Ability to communicate effectively with both the customer and internal contacts
- Must be able to lift 25kg maximum Travel to alternate site occationally will be required

**How you will thrive and create an impact**:

- Perform inventory management-related functions such as monitoring slow moving and dead stock, conducting cycle counting and yearly inventories, reporting, etc.
- Increase VWR revenue by controlling customer spending, providing daily customer service functions, and collaborating with the customer relative to inventory management.
- Perform purchasing functions such as providing level 2 and 3 ESS support (B/O, DFS, or 3P Support), handling quotes, document control, filing, and records maintenance, sorting and monitoring reclaimed and recyclable material, resolving open invoices/pricing, and forecasting, etc
- Responsible for all customer service related functions including but not limited to: order entry, reporting, basic cross-referencing and product conversions to VWR brand or best buy products, maintaining metrics, and cost avoidance, etc.
- Perform shipping coordination activities such as shipping customer material (including hazardous materials), answering customer calls, handling routine issues, operating a hand-jack and forklift, entering relevant shipping information into the customer computer system, and maintaining inspections on safety stations and equipment.
- Responsible for handling hazardous material and preparing shipping documentation and packaging requirements.
- Interface directly with customer POC, purchasing directors, facility directors, plant managers, etc. responsible for handling consigned, non-consigned, customer-owned, and 3rd party inventory onsite at the customer location.
- Use VWR and basic customer computer systems (ESS, Citrix, Info Access, Intranet, StockTracker, ChemSW, and customer-specific ERP systems as well as customer-specific shipping systems ) in fulfillment of job duties.
- Meet goals and objectives: revenue, safety, performance, and quality.
- Create programs for enhanced service efficiencies.
- Collaborating with manufacturing reps. Document SPI Requests

Why Avantor?

**Dare to go further in your career. **Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advance life-changing science.

**The work we do changes people’s lives for the better. **It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom’s voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world.