Procurement Manager

Gexpro Services • Livermore, CA

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About The Position

The Procurement Manager – Technology leads procurement and sourcing activities for a vertical, aligning supplier decisions and inventory management with sourcing strategy, customer demand, and business targets. The role oversees service center procurement performance, supports new business implementations, negotiates supplier costs and agreements, and develops buyers and other direct reports. It also coordinates with demand planning, supply chain analytics, service center, and program management teams to optimize inventory, fulfillment, cost, and gross margin.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of professional sourcing and/or purchasing experience.
• Strong technical acumen and knowledge of the industrial components supply base.
• Proven leadership experience and direct-report oversight.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly Microsoft Excel and Power BI.
• Ability to create complex Excel formulas, including XLOOKUP and IF/THEN statements, and build pivot tables.
• Effective communication skills with peers and service center personnel.
• Strategic thinking and ability to implement solutions that improve buyer efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate sales within the vertical.
• Ability to delegate tasks effectively and manage team performance.
• Ability to handle escalations and solve problems.
• Ability to analyze vertical supply chain needs and develop supplier relationships to meet requirements.
• Ability to negotiate low material acquisition costs and lead times that meet customer demand schedules.
• Strong problem-solving, multitasking, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Willingness to travel for customer and supplier meetings, audits, and other assessments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure procurement aligns with the vertical sourcing strategy by participating in supplier selection, strategic supplier growth plans, cost reduction, and supplier development initiatives.
• Collaborate with demand planning and supply chain analytics teams to analyze customer forecasts and historical consumption; contribute recommendations in demand planning meetings to optimize inventory and fulfillment levels.
• Evaluate inventory investments needed for new business implementations or program expansions and ensure alignment with trade working capital initiatives.
• Meet or exceed monthly average-days-of-inventory targets; assist with the annual budget and provide quarterly inventory forecasts monthly.
• Coordinate with the Service Center Manager and Program Management team to align procurement with sales projections and gross margin improvement targets.
• Oversee new business implementations, including stocking methodologies, resource allocation for implementation purchases, and key supplier price agreements.
• Evaluate service center procurement workload and delegate or perform tasks to meet sourcing and procurement metrics.
• Manage performance against Fill Rate, Days of Inventory Performance, Supplier OTD, Purchase Price Variance, and NCMR/IBD Resolution metrics.
• Review acquisition costs daily against contract pricing and previous costs to minimize supplier contract pricing leakage.
• Identify gross margin improvement opportunities through cost negotiations, volume-based price breaks, and near- or off-shoring opportunities; track and publish results.
• Assist with obsolete inventory disposition by pursuing vendor returns or converting items to active parts through rework or secondary processing.
• Coordinate HR and personnel matters for direct reports, including annual performance reviews, compensation, benefits and payroll issues, promotions, merit increases, bonus allocations, and training and development.
• Train and develop buyers, junior buyers, and expeditors; create and manage a training matrix for critical skills and negotiation tactics, and provide regular performance feedback.
• Champion onboarding and change management for adoption of the supplier portal and its functionalities.
• Build supplier relationships and work cross-functionally with service center personnel and supplier representatives to manage incoming supply and stocking levels.
• Negotiate material acquisition costs and lead times that meet customer demand schedules.
• Travel as needed to support customer and supplier meetings, audits, and other assessments.

What This Job Offers

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