About the position
Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company is seeking a Purchasing Manager to join our dynamic management team. The Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing and directing the purchasing and supply room staff and their functions. This includes adhering to budget, enforcing corporate purchasing standards, issuing and receiving purchase orders, reviewing and approving invoices, managing leasing and rental agreements for departmental equipment, maintaining inventory controls, and serving as the UPS administrator. This role is crucial in ensuring that supplies are delivered on time to the Company’s agents. The role also involves negotiating pricing for purchase orders, printing, and equipment, as well as business recommendations for leasing versus buying. This key role requires a full-time onsite presence.
Responsibilities
- Negotiate, analyze, and make purchasing decisions.
- Execute requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.
- Issue and receive purchase orders, review invoices, and enforce corporate purchasing standards.
- Maintain, manage, and negotiate vendor pricing/contracts and relationships.
- Conduct annual planning, budgeting, and analysis for purchasing and supply departments.
- Manage a team of two direct reports and one indirect report.
- Administer UPS functions, including creating new user accounts and forwarding invoices to accounting for payment.
- Maintain and monitor PeopleSoft purchasing transactions and inventory controls.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
- 5+ years in purchasing, managerial experience with a minimum of 3 direct reports, inventory control, and shipping systems.
- Strong computer skills, PeopleSoft knowledge a plus, project management, purchasing/buying/negotiating experience.
- Solid verbal/written communication skills, including customer relations.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize workflow.
Benefits
- Medical
- Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)
- Dental
- Vision
- Basic Life Insurance (full premium paid by employer)
- Voluntary Employee, Spouse and Child Life Insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Holidays
- Paid time off including vacation, personal days, and sick time
- 401(k) and Profit-Sharing retirement plan
