What are the responsibilities and job description for the Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist position at Formica Group North America?
The position will be responsible for procurement & supply chain activities supporting the sample production group, purchasing and resale program and fully supporting the operations, procurement and supply chain group.
Only qualified individuals (those who meet the fundamental qualifications) will be considered as applicants for this position. Applications will be accepted for a minimum of 3 business days from the date of the initial posting.
Formica will not discriminate against persons because of their disability, including disabled veterans, and will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying and require special assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact our Human Resources department at 513-786-3594.
- Scheduling, forecasting, inventory management (including production planning, managing active & obsolete inventory levels)
- Vendor management (creating and managing purchase orders and releases)
- Leading full material & service sourcing initiatives
- Negotiate and manage supply agreements with suppliers
- Manage supplier issues and drive them to conclusion
- Develop, manage and support all supplier scorecard programs
- Claims program management for all customer, quality and field claims
- Order management (including order fulfillment)
- Strategic planning (HPL team).
- Develops audits and maintains bills of materials as well as processes reports and schedules to support efficient production planning.
- Liaison for samples outbound shipments to Customer Service, Planning, Purchasing, Plants, etc. This position will report directly to the Director of Procurement.
- Be a cross-functional backup for other Procurement & Supply Chain team members as necessary.
- Strong analytical and math skills.
- Experience in procurement and/or supply chain 2 years or degree in related field.
- Inventory Management experience preferred including managing and planning inventory levels against forecast and orders, meeting predetermined parameters on fill rate, minimizing obsolescence, etc.
- Experience in dealing with vendors including selection, managing performance and placing PO’s and releases.
- Detailed negotiation experience with both material and service agreements for comprehensive
- Supplier scorecard experience to include On Time/In Full delivery, supplier quality, supplier complaints, pricing programs (Monitoring market indexes)
- Experience with sourcing initiatives; Supplier RFI, RFQ & RFP to support both material & service needs.
- Spend analysis skills
- Strong communications skills.
- Strong MS Office Skills with an emphasis in Excel.
- Ability to combine data from various sources and extrapolate information as needed for internal customers.
- Experience understanding of ERP systems (ex. BPCS, MAPICS, SAP, etc.) is required with BPCS knowledge preferred.
- Required to work off-shifts as necessary.
- Will require trips to suppliers as needed.
Only qualified individuals (those who meet the fundamental qualifications) will be considered as applicants for this position. Applications will be accepted for a minimum of 3 business days from the date of the initial posting.
Formica will not discriminate against persons because of their disability, including disabled veterans, and will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying and require special assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact our Human Resources department at 513-786-3594.
