The Judge Group is seeking a Purchasing Manager in Sioux City, IA area! The qualified individual is responsible for oversight of the day to day purchasing ensuring all efforts are made in a timely manner.

Responsibilities:

• Assesses, suggests recommendations for, and develops a sourcing strategy and procedures for the implementing best practice standards
• Manages the daily operations to guarantee that the service and material requirements are met in as effective, efficient, timely, and ethical manner
• Offers oversight of all additive purchases in compliance with the procurement procedures and policies
• Identifies optimization potentials and formulates strategies that deliver the greatest total cost of ownership through continuous spend analysis
• Supports and contributes to cross functional initiatives, projects, and complete process designs
• Analyzes performance of suppliers and develops improvement actions
• Creates material groups and buying channels to effectively and efficiently classify and manage volume of sourcing
• Oversees instruction and training to personnel to provide direction as it relates to all policies and procedures
• Creates and upholds excellent working relationships cross functionally within the company as well as with external individuals

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 5 years of experience
• Sourcing and procurement experience required (food processing, food manufacturing, are strongly preferred)
• Best practices and benchmarks knowledge in the procurement and sourcing area
• Ability to work collaboratively with external and internal individuals
• Strong time management and planning skills required
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Excellent communications skills.
• High proficiency level in Microsoft suite; strong ERP background (SAP highly preferred)