Manager, Purchasing

Description

 Summary:

Supervise the efforts of the staff involved in the planning, purchasing and alignment of raw material based on MRP requirements in support of customer demand, master production schedule and the purchase of equipment, supplies and services at negotiated best cost, aligned with delivery requirements and quality specifications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise and coordinate buyer activities to create, confirm, expedite, cancel, defer, increase or decrease purchase

order line items to reflect material demand as identified on the MRP Action Report (“MAR”).  Timely execution of MAR actions.

• Review purchase requisitions for accuracy and completeness, approve requisitions, designate approved supplier and assign requisition to staff for processing.
• Recommend vendors for notification to bid for contracts and review bids to ensure adherence to procedures and policies.
• Manage buyer actions for purchase order maintenance, including want date, due date, AVL, quantity and change order comments.
• Manage buyer actions for management of purchase order (“PO”) backlog to maintain accurate POs and close completed/cancelled POs.
• Manage buyer actions for identification, resolution and/or escalation material availability issues such as long lead times, allocations or obsolescence.
• Support material department inventory management initiatives, including tactical execution of VMI/MRP share strategy, Kanban/safety stock strategy, participation in physical inventory efforts, ECO implementation process, NCNR process, consigned material process and purchasing ordering policy.
• Maintain supplier relationships and execute new supplier qualification procedures.
• Reduce overall component/material costs for designated customer base to specified annual targeted cost reductions.
• Manage buyer actions to limit excess material by identification and mitigation of potential excess prior to order placement, including identification of alternate components and packaging sizes to program manager and/or materials manager.
• Manage buyer efforts to return excess material as identified by program management through E&O analysis, cancellation of customer order or customer disengagement.
• Develop and recommend purchasing procedures and policies.
• Train and perform Quality Management Systems cross functional internal audits.
• Comply with all in-house training as identified in job specific family and or specific training plan.
• Support all corporate and site 6S objectives.
• Perform all other duties, as assigned.

Job Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong communication, leadership, process development and negotiation skills.
• Team player and highly motivated.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Successfully manage multiple, competing priorities with a strong sense of urgency and minimal direction.  Self-starter with ability to work in a cross-functional team environment.  

Qualifications

Experience/Education:

• High School Diploma/GED or equivalent experience.  BA/BS degree preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience in purchasing.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).