Purchasing Manager

Location

Louisville, KY | United States

Job description

SUMMARY: Reporting to VP of Finance, will oversee, conduct, and actively manage the end-to-end strategic sourcing and procurement process for Logistics and Supply Chain supporting multi-site manufacturing facilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Hands on manager able to effect change with multi-site manufacturing environment.

• Manage a small team of Supply Chain personnel.

• Review CWTent supply base for consolidation, quality , and cost savings opportunities.

• Provide leadership and innovative strategie s for optimizing sourcing effectiveness

• Coordinate and work with Executive Team to support long term business strategic goals .

• Establish strong supplier relationships, effectively manage category supply base, perform advance negotiations, and oversee selection of key suppliers.

• Actively monitor vendor and internal performance against contracts, industry benchmarks , and previous baselines. Develop and submit reports to Executive management

• Identify and evaluate market changes - make appropriate fact-base recommendations

• Oversee roll-out of new vendor contracts and processes.

• Background in the Steel Market

• Ability to interface with multiple levels of an organization internally and externally

• Ability to work in a cross functional team

• Implement purchasing strategies with the objective of lower costs and JIT deliveries.

• Develop supplier relationships in support of such activities , using supplier selection criteria and performance / quality evaluation techniques.

• Assure delivery of materials at expected costs and quality levels, including purchase orders , blanked orders , and long-term agreements.

• Establish and manage systems for stores and inventory control.

• Assure compliance to ISO and QS requirements .

• All other tasks assigned

EDUCATION

• College Degree Type: BS or related experience

• Degree Area: Business or Technical preferred

• Minimum: 3 years of experience in high volume manufacturing Purchasing

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Job related work instruction and procedure training

• Background in Steel Market (highly preferred)

• ERP Platform

• Quality , IATF

• MS Office with high functional experience with Excel

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Ability to read , analyze , and interpret business correspondences , Safety Notices, Control Plans , Quality Ale1is , and Packaging instructions. Ability to respond to common inquires or complaints from customers.

• Ability to add , subtract , multiply , and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers , common fractions , and decimals. Ability to compute rate , ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exits. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written , oral , diagram , or schedule form.

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