Purchasing Manager

Flex•Usa, VA

About The Position

Anord Mardix, a Flex company, is a global leader in critical power solutions. With facilities around the globe, Anord Mardix leads in critical power infrastructure, supporting a myriad of industries, from financial institutions to data centers. We develop skill sets, encourage curiosity, and enable empowerment – we turn jobs into careers. If this sounds interesting, we’d like to meet you. Job Summary To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a/an Purchasing Manager located in Henrico, VA. Reporting to the Director – Supply Chain, the Purchasing Manager role involves overseeing activities related to the procurement of Direct & Indirect materials, parts, components and equipment. Directs and coordinates activities of personnel engaged in procurement consistent with delivery requirements and quality specifications. What a typical day looks like: Prepares instructions regarding purchasing systems and procedures. Establishes goals for purchasing department. Follow-up policies and procedures for the operation of procurement activities. Manage and guide a team of buyers and expeditors to meet procurement and supplier management goals Interface with procurement groups in updating and maintaining company procurement strategies Implement processes with suppliers to improve on time delivery and Purchase Price Variance Helping implementation of Vendor Managed Inventory models Supervise the team in the management of the supply chain to achieve continuous timely supply of parts and services Approves purchase orders and change notices through subordinates. Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy. Ensures continuity of raw material supply to help production schedules and balances with achieving inventory level targets. Investigates inventory levels. Helps process to manage excess and obsolete material. Conduct supplier performance reviews and help the team to maintain supplier consistent on time delivery and implement processes with suppliers to ensure on time delivery and quality of product / service Keep senior management informed of present/future trends in availability and cost of materials, components and equipment Monitors on-time supplier deliveries, inventory turns, MRP execution, Purchase Price Variance, processing time reduction, supplier performance and cost investigation. Act as first point of escalation with suppliers and communicate all unresolved issues to the Supply Chain Director Work closely with the team to ensure purchasing compliance to corporate directives Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with procurement and purchasing functions; and with minimum 5 years' experience of people management/leading teams.
Demonstrates expert functional, technical and people and/or process management skills as well as supplier (external and internal) relationship skills.
Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas; understands the strategic impact of the function across sites
Knowledge and understanding with experience in an engineered-to-order (ETO) manufacture facility
Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of clients, suppliers, senior management, and the public.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

Responsibilities

Prepares instructions regarding purchasing systems and procedures.
Establishes goals for purchasing department.
Follow-up policies and procedures for the operation of procurement activities.
Manage and guide a team of buyers and expeditors to meet procurement and supplier management goals
Interface with procurement groups in updating and maintaining company procurement strategies
Implement processes with suppliers to improve on time delivery and Purchase Price Variance
Helping implementation of Vendor Managed Inventory models
Supervise the team in the management of the supply chain to achieve continuous timely supply of parts and services
Approves purchase orders and change notices through subordinates.
Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
Ensures continuity of raw material supply to help production schedules and balances with achieving inventory level targets.
Investigates inventory levels.
Helps process to manage excess and obsolete material.
Conduct supplier performance reviews and help the team to maintain supplier consistent on time delivery and implement processes with suppliers to ensure on time delivery and quality of product / service
Keep senior management informed of present/future trends in availability and cost of materials, components and equipment
Monitors on-time supplier deliveries, inventory turns, MRP execution, Purchase Price Variance, processing time reduction, supplier performance and cost investigation.
Act as first point of escalation with suppliers and communicate all unresolved issues to the Supply Chain Director
Work closely with the team to ensure purchasing compliance to corporate directives
Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce