Purchasing Specialist

iNRCORE Group is a leading, vertically integrated provider of highly engineered, high-reliability, and high-performance passive electronic components. We are known for manufacturing proprietary magnetics, capacitors, resistors, filters, and more. We serve mission-critical data and power applications in the Defense, Aerospace & Avionics, Space, Smart Grid, Medical, AI/Data center, and Hi-Rel industrial markets.

iNRCORE Group currently has fourteen (14) manufacturing facilities across the globe with more than one thousand (1000 ) employees - and growing! Our business entities include company names such as Bicron, Coast Magnetics, DYCO, Gowanda, iNRCORE, Passive Plus, RCD, Sentran, TTE, and Vanguard Electronics. Our organization has a world-class reputation for innovation, quality products and expertise, and outstanding leadership. Our talented staff is what makes this all possible. We are actively seeking to hire highly skilled professionals to meet our growing demand and join our expanding team(s).

We currently have an opening for Purchasing Specialist in our RCD Components facility, located in Manchester, NH. This position is critical to the success of RCD and will be supporting the Operations and Sales departments in a vendor management capacity and reporting directly to the Director of Operations. The ideal candidate for this position should be a highly skilled communicator maintaining upstanding relationships both internally and externally, proven analytical, planning, and problem solving capabilities, technically savvy with MS 360 and MRP acumen, have a strong acumen for MRP methodology and use, and has experience in a manufacturing, defense and aerospace, or distribution environment.

Details of the Role: The position of Purchasing Specialist will be responsible for the planning, designing, developing, implementing and management of vendor management and purchasing for the company. During the course of a standard workday, you will be expected to, find and qualify private label production sources across the globe, obtain quotes for private label sourced product, seek new product lines to increase RCD product offerings with existing and new sources of supply, support departments in all purchasing efforts.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Be the primary point of contact for all suppliers to source products.
• Manage the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system.
• Lead procurement best practices and product introduction from sourcing through qualification and on to first customer shipment.
• Create supplier score cards and perform follow-through regarding Corrective Action requests.
• Responsible for managing cost of freight.
  
  

Qualifying Attributes And Skills

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work-related experience.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in purchasing.
• Ability to pivot between multiple interfaces and priorities.
• Experience working within AS9100 guidelines in respect to suppliers, within a QPL manufacturer preferred.
• Experience creating and managing purchase orders for new suppliers.
• Strong problem solving and time management skills, a result-oriented work ethic, and a collaborator attitude.
• Detail-oriented and excellent planning, analysis, and execution skills.
• Proven success in developing and leading a team using a collaborative management style.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to interact professionally with all levels of the organization as well as with external parties.
• Experience in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment preferred.
• Willingness to be flexible with changing priorities and varying management needs.
• Strategic and tactical. Must have ability and willingness to roll up their sleeves and get the work done.
• Proven ability to successfully drive strategy.
• Experience working in multi-country, multi-cultural environment preferred.
• Private Equity experience preferred but not required.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift and move up to 15 pounds without trouble.
• Must have the ability to adjust focus, have peripheral vision, and capable of adequately seeing both short and long-distance visibility.
  
  

iNRCORE and its affiliated entities are an equal opportunity employer with a full suite of benefits offered to full-time employees.

• Excellent earning potential with qualifying annual bonuses
• Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Elective Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts
• Company paid and elective buy-up Life & AD&D Insurance
• Company paid Short-Term Disability and Elective Long-Term Disability
• Elective Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Supplemental Accident Coverage Benefits
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with qualifying Company match
• Company paid mental health and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Holidays and generous paid time off (PTO)
• Employee Discount Program (LifeMart via ADP)
  
  

iNRCORE, LLC and its affiliated entities is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered.