SUMMARY

Procurement & Inventory Manager located in Katy, Texas, will oversee the parts team, and liaisons with warehouse personnel, facilitating parts ordering, replenishment, and fulfillment performance. The position requires a blend of "hands on in the business’ and manager level ‘with the team’ work. To succeed you will enjoy rolling up your sleeves, leading a team and contributing to our strategy. The Manager creates and monitors reports such as back order, fill ratio, inventory orders, etc. Customer service skills and technical knowledge of aftermarket repair parts is required.

Katy office hours are M-F 8am – 5pm. In office, not remote or flex.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership: Lead a small team to deliver KPIs and be excited by the challenge of mentoring team members across the process.

Lead the Parts Team to work within a cross-functional environment to develop, execute and maintain parts solutions (tactical & strategic) in alignment with evolving customer and market needs.

Process Improvement: Work with all teams to drive inter- and intra- departmental efficiencies, optimize processes and prioritize system enhancements

Reporting: Build dashboards, internal / external reports and present key datasets to enable all team members to efficiently and effectively monitor performance and prioritize their efforts

Act as key point of contact for North American Parts to provide accurate and up to date information to management as well as internal and external customers as required.

Monitor and adjust inventory levels to meet established customer on time delivery and service levels.

Manager the team for daily orders and shipments; Maintaining an accurate inventory database that includes detailed information on available stock

Sourcing suppliers and fostering good relationships with them.

Purchasing new stock and negotiating favorable contracts with suppliers

Working closely with sales, purchasing and other relevant departments to organize the efficient flow of inventory

Leverage metrics and other tools to drive departmental performance.

Perform monthly assessments of historical inventory levels by SKU and adjust stocking strategies accordingly in order to maintain or improve service levels.

Drive local sourcing initiatives with purchasing and suppliers as well as provide parts training to the dealer network.

Complete cross training of the LiuGong products and assist in the development of new software to support all products.

Assist with parts technical support as well as superior follow-up and communications for dealers and internal service personnel.

Develop pricing plans, stocking incentives and other initiatives to grow the parts business and provide superior After Sales support.

Research and recommend the proper parts, solve parts technical issues and work with staff in overseas offices.

Reporting, Analysis, Scorecard, and Communication

Partner with leadership team to prepare various reports, analysis, presentations, and scorecards.

Produce routine reporting packages for management.

Develop reporting metrics and drivers to understand inventory results like inventory variance and cost root cause analysis supporting decision-making and budget goals.

Effectively communicate clear, concise, accurate information that caters to the levels of detail needed by recipients to translate inventory performance results into business insights and actions.

Oversee sales and service departments parts requests.

Build systems and processes for inventory control and parts management best practices.

Some light travel domestically will be required on occasion as well as travel to Mexico.

Skills/Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or 10 years Heavy Machinery industry experience a must.

Leadership experience of 5-10 years preferred.

Thoroughly skilled on MS Office applications (Word, Excel & Outlook), including ability to create and manage spreadsheets in an efficient manner.

Good mechanical aptitude is a must (auto and/or heavy machinery)

Parts technical knowledge is required; Microsoft Office; Heavy Microsoft Excel SAP and Bilingual (English and Spanish) strongly preferred.