The Company
Uline is the leading distributor of shipping, packaging, industrial, and janitorial materials to businesses throughout North America, with over 40,000 products offered via same-day shipping. Founded in 1980, Uline is a family-owned company that has grown to $11 billion in revenue and more than 9,000 employees. The company operates 13 warehouse locations throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico, with 14 sales offices.
To support the company’s continued growth, Uline recently opened a new 1 million square foot warehouse in Naples, FL, bringing the total company footprint to ~25 million square feet. Uline is also planning to develop an additional 5 million square feet of warehousing space (4 new buildings) near its headquarters in Pleasant Prairie, WI. Uline consistently adds new product offerings every year and is investing in IT systems to improve operations and enhance the customer experience.
The Role
In order to support their continued growth of the company, Uline is continuing to build out their Purchasing function. They are looking to hire multiple roles on the team across a variety of levels. These roles will partner on purchase orders and vendor relationship management for a specific product line, collaborating with the Demand Planning and Operations teams. This role is based onsite in Pleasant Prairie, WI.
Experience & Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree required; Supply Chain or Finance background is preferred.
• At least 3 years of experience in supply chain, purchasing, inventory management, or related fields.
• Proficiency with AS400, Access, and/or Microsoft Office is a plus.
• Progressive experience in a purchasing function; preferably in a distribution or retail environment.
• Understanding of supply chain KPIs, customer fill order rates, inventory turnover, PO compliance.
• Analytical skills; embraces fact?based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, production results, and cost modeling.
• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills; comfortable and credible with both internal stakeholders and external audiences.
• A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual; able to motivate themselves and others; a natural bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity.
