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Utility Construction

Granite City Electric Supply Company
East Taunton, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/19/2025

Job Description

The Utility Construction - Supply Chain Specialist will play a critical role in growing the success of our Underground business by focusing on providing our customers with industry-leading support and quality of product.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Manage daily purchasing requirements for assigned buylines either directly or with support team members. This includes demand analysis, order placement, and order point management.
  2. Work closely with vendors to review new product releases and revisions to ensure stocked SKUs are up to date with market requirement.
  3. Collaborate with suppliers, sales, and pricing teams to develop, communicate, and implement competitive and profitable day-to-day selling strategies. This will include branch visits or other face-to-face meetings to review products and other performance metrics.
  4. Work closely with marketing to identify item promotion potential and promotion structure.
  5. Maintain a solid working knowledge of essential commodity trends including industry trends, cost drivers, global pricing, material lead times, and technical/manufacturing processes.
  6. Optimize inventory levels at the distribution centers and branch level based on market needs and financial return.
  7. Negotiate cost savings through purchase discounts, waived or delayed price increases, or other cost reductions. Track these savings and report out as requested.
  8. Negotiate annual rebate programs as directed.
  9. Create reports to routinely measure performance and identify potential problems.
  10. Work with other team members as necessary on unassigned suppliers or product lines to coordinate overall Supply Chain Strategy
  11. Become a subject matter expert on Utility Construction products such as PVC, handholes, turtles, underground vaults, fittings and accessories.

Requirements:

  • Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with all internal and external contacts.
  • Knowledge of Utility Construction industry.
  • Must be able to travel as needed via air and car. Up to 25% travel local or regional travel will be required.
  • Must be able to sit/stand for long periods of time at an office workstation.

About Us:

Granite City Electric Supply is the area's premier electrical distributor serving electrical contractors as well as residential, commercial and industrial customers for over 100 years. With over 30 branches covering Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut, we are the largest regional independent electrical supply company and the official distributor of electrical supplies to the Boston Red Sox.

Benefits:

  • Competitive wages.
  • Great benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, STD/LTD, 401k, vacation, holiday, sick and more.
  • We are an equal opportunity employer. Disabled/Veteran.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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