Indirect Procurement-Senior Manager

First Quality • Mcelhattan, PA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

First Quality is a family-owned company founded over 35 years ago, with a significant presence across the U.S. and Canada. We specialize in producing high-quality personal care and household products for major retailers and healthcare organizations. Our diverse product portfolio includes items such as baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, and adult incontinence products, as well as laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwashing solutions. We also manufacture certain raw materials and components, including flexible print and packaging. Guided by our core values of humility, unity, and integrity, we utilize advanced technology and innovation to foster growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, we cultivate a collaborative environment that emphasizes continuous learning, professional development, and our overarching mission to 'Make Things Better®'.

We are currently seeking an Indirect Procurement-Sr. Manager to join our First Quality Products Company, located in McElhattan, PA. This role also offers the possibility of being based in our Central PA sites (McElhattan, PA & Lewistown, PA) or Macon, GA. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the indirect procurement department for all FQ Absorbent Hygiene (AbHy) companies. Key responsibilities include managing strategic sourcing initiatives, approving spend in specific categories, collaborating with other functional departments to standardize and streamline spend, leading vendor negotiations, and ensuring consistency of processes and purchases across AbHy plants to leverage spend and achieve optimal value for FQ. The role requires the ability to travel approximately 30% of the time to AbHy locations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business management / supply chain or a minimum of 5 years’ experience in manufacturing operations, with negotiating, cost analysis, and supply chain or procurement experience preferred.
• Strong and effective communicator, both oral and written, who can articulate and clearly convey information with good interpersonal and leadership skills while interfacing with all levels of FQ’s organization structure.
• Experience in supervising and leading a team of employees is ideal.
• Demonstrated experience with business relationship development and excellent customer service.
• Proven analytical, problem-solving and process optimization abilities while working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Direct/coordinate the procurement of indirect materials, supplies, spare parts, and services (MRO) needed to support operations for all AbHy plants by promoting collaboration across AbHy indirect buyers and functional departments to find synergies and negotiate aggregated volumes to achieve commercial benefits
• Represent FQ by developing strategic relationships with key suppliers. This includes sourcing and negotiating strategies along with leading the internal process and obtaining alignment with cross functional stakeholders
• Design and implement policies and procedures for the indirect procurement department that are consistent with the overall FQ purchasing policies.
• Identify and track cost savings initiatives including dollar savings and process improvements within the indirect procurement department and with functional departments to support FQ’s Funding the Growth (FTG) efforts
• Lead and manage a team of indirect buyers across multiple locations, providing training, supervision, direction, and guidance.
• Establish and maintain measurable performance metrics covering procurement activities including but not limited to buyer activity levels, categorized spend, requisition activity, and internal order placement performance.
• Approve requisitions across multiple plants in specific categories of spend to ensure the requisitioned item or service is accurate in need and scope, interface heavily with the requisitioning department to resolve questions and thoroughly vet the spend, and provide analytics to support the spend with documented notes and summaries to leadership.
• Participate in the development of cost-effective parts, equipment, and substitute equipment while maintaining quality and safety.
• Build and maintain strong relationships within the procurement department and other functional departments, finance, and plant leadership to ensure alignment of goals and objectives and cost savings initiatives.
• Research and identify vendors of spare parts, supplies, services, and other goods to assess for potential inclusion in competitive bidding to continually strengthen the FQ vendor selection options.
• Create or assist in creating procurement documentation such as requisition summaries to support spend, executive summaries, RFI’s, RFP’s and RFQ’s, and other spend and sourcing analytical reports.
• Build and develop our digital roadmap to drive automation, efficiency, insights, and cost effectiveness
• Additional duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior