Purchasing Manager

This salary information serves as a general guideline. Final offers are based on various factors, including qualifications, skills, experience, and other job-related criteria.

Benefits:

Paid Time Off, Health Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, 401(K) with Roth option, Life & Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement & Discretionary Profit-Sharing Bonus.

Job Summary:

This position reports to the Supply Chain Manager and is responsible for overseeing a team of Buyers and a Sourcing Specialist, sourcing critical supply chain items, working closely with the Buyers, Production Managers and Schedulers to ensure the production schedule can be met, identifying opportunities for outsourcing assembly work and qualifying vendors to meet our quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain relationships with critical component suppliers.
• Maintain primary purchasing responsibility for key items.
• Negotiate pricing and contracts with suppliers.
• Develop procurement strategies and write standard operating procedures.
• Research and implement continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives.
• Work closely with Production Managers to determine outsourcing opportunities to enable the Production Departments to maintain build schedules.
• Work with the Master Scheduler to adjust the production plan to reflect sourcing issues.
• Work with Quality to qualify new vendors and identify potential outsourcing suppliers.
• Provide regular updates to Management and Sales on supply chain issues and their possible impact on future shipments.
• Monitor past due line items for all open job orders and/or purchase orders.
• Provide leadership and mentor a staff of Buyers and a Sourcing Specialist, overseeing the department recruitment, training, performance management.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Eight years of relevant purchasing experience.
• Three years’ experience as a Purchasing Manager, Procurement Manager, Sourcing Manager, Materials Manager or similar.
• Experience with ERP software (Infor preferred).
• Expertise in negotiation and contract management.
• Understand market dynamics and demonstrated ability to use sound business judgement.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to develop and sustain networking relationships.
• Proficient in MS Office.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Five years’ of management experience.
• Manufacturing and electronics industry experience.
• APICS Certification.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to perform sedentary work, including sitting for extended periods of time.
• Ability to periodically stand, walk, crouch, stoop, bend, and reach across all planes.
• Ability to operate a computer and other office productivity equipment for extended periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance, vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• May be required to lift and/or move objects up to 10 pounds, 0 - 10% of time.