OEM Purchasing Representative
About The Position
As a Maddox OEM Purchasing Representative, you will report to the Supplier Relations Manager, under direction of the OEM Purchasing Team Lead, in a fast-paced and highly dynamic procurement environment. Your work will focus on forging/improving supplier relationships, mitigating supply risks, and ensuring profitability through consistent transformer production, quality, and delivery. You will manage a designated portfolio of strategic OEMs, engaging in pricing and production capacity negotiations, as well as in quality/service compliance audits. As a result, you will have direct responsibility for ensuring that Maddox continuously procures the “right” units, from the “right” OEMs, in the “right” quantities–all at the “right” time to meet our customers’ expectations. Additionally, you will have exciting opportunities to assist the Supplier Relations Manager and OEM Purchasing Team Lead in representing Maddox at select high-profile trade shows. You will also get to visit and onboard new suppliers, as the needs of our business continuously expand. Your day-to-day activities will involve reviewing customer order specifications and OEM approval drawings to ensure supplier compatibility. You will also closely collaborate with Maddox OEM Purchase Order Coordinators in uncovering and solving supply-related issues. When necessary, you will facilitate resolution meetings between OEMs and our various internal stakeholders. When significant order milestones are reached, or roadblocks are encountered, you will be responsible for notifying our affected Customer Service, Sales, and Leadership teams and working with them to provide solutions.
Requirements
- Strong sense of urgency
- Heightened sense of attention to detail
- Owner’s mentality
- Confidence
- Customer-centric
- Ability to think quickly and juggle rapidly changing priorities while maintaining a calm and positive demeanor
- Basic working-level of skill with spreadsheets and dashboards (i.e. Excel, Power BI, Google Sheets)
- Highly-developed communication skills
- Business acumen
- Professional etiquette
- Proven track record of negotiation and influencing others without strict reliance on formal authority
- Exceptional emotional intelligence
- Adaptive communication style
Nice To Haves
- Education/experience in engineering
- Education/experience in technical sales
- Education/experience in quality control
- Education/experience in manufacturing
- Education/experience in purchasing
Responsibilities
- Manage a designated portfolio of strategic OEMs
- Engage in pricing and production capacity negotiations
- Conduct quality/service compliance audits
- Ensure Maddox continuously procures the “right” units, from the “right” OEMs, in the “right” quantities–all at the “right” time
- Assist in representing Maddox at select high-profile trade shows
- Visit and onboard new suppliers
- Review customer order specifications and OEM approval drawings to ensure supplier compatibility
- Collaborate with Maddox OEM Purchase Order Coordinators in uncovering and solving supply-related issues
- Facilitate resolution meetings between OEMs and internal stakeholders
- Notify affected Customer Service, Sales, and Leadership teams of significant order milestones or roadblocks and work with them to provide solutions
Benefits
- Comprehensive full-time benefits package
- Health & wellness benefits (insurance or cash-in-lieu options)
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 8% of wages
- Paid holidays
- PTO
- Family-life gifts
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Other voluntary benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
