B/J Sales and Purchasing Assistan

Interplace, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sourcing company in San Jose is looking for a B/J Sales and Purchasing Assistant. The role involves coordinating sales activities between US vendors and Japan HQ, handling customer orders, and maintaining schedules and reports. The ideal candidate should have proficiency in MS Office, be bilingual in Japanese and English, and possess experience with automotive web EDI systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with MS Office, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and Access.
• Proficiency in both Japanese and English for customer interactions.
• Familiarity with automotive web EDI systems.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all sales activities between US vendors or customers and Japan HQ.
• Enter customer orders into integrated software.
• Maintain purchasing and shipping schedules.

Skills

Basic MS Office experience

Japanese communication skills

English communication skills

Tools

Axapta

SAP

Job description

B/J Sales and Purchasing Assistan (44341-6)

Responsibilities

• Coordinating all sales activities between US vendors or customers and Japan HQ, which includes receiving quotes and identifying shipping dates.
• Customer order entry into integrated software package (Axapta or other MRP systems/ELNA- Citrix).
• Coordinate customer shipments with warehouse and outside vendors for drop-shipments.
• Follow-up on customer orders, coordination with customer on sales issues including RMA (Return Merchandise Authorizations), resolving order, pricing, shipping, etc. discrepancies.
• Perform other sales related functions as necessary.
• Coordinate with vendors for purchases both domestic and international.
• Maintain purchasing and shipping schedules, sales reports, commission reports and other miscellaneous reports on Excel spreadsheets.
• Invoice/PO/Data entry/Ship arrangement with warehouse team, communication with Asia factory team, twice a year inventory count at LA warehouse, etc.
• General office tasks—email, filing, phone calls with automotive customers and data entry at customer portal site, etc.

Qualifications

• Basic MS Office experience (Outlook, Excel/ formulas, pivot, VBA, and CSV, Word, PowerPoint, Access, PDF).
• Japanese and English communication skills.
• Automotive customers are using their own web portal sites like web EDI systems (SAP).