Clow Valve - Purchasing Manager

McWane•Oskaloosa, IA

13h

About The Position

Purpose: The Purchasing Manager leads the company’s efforts to procure cost effective resources including castings, natural gas, supplies, and raw materials; while ensuring that Clow receives competitive pricing, quality products, and timely delivery from reliable, trusted suppliers. The Purchasing Manager role is an informational cornerstone and resource to all areas in the organization.

Requirements

Proficient with MS Office and an MRP/ERP system.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills.
SPSM Certification & prior management/leadership experience.
Required: High School Diploma and six years of manufacturing procurement work experience.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with Microsoft Dynamix AX is strongly preferred.
Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in procurement or related field and 2 years of experience in purchasing.

Responsibilities

Supplier Reliability/Relationship Management – Ensure suppliers maintain 93% or better on the supplier reliability report for quality.
Expense Management: Identify 5 new opportunities in a 12-month cycle that reduce costs or risks, increase ROI, or improve efficiency.
Leadership – Receive a Leadership Assessment score of 4.5 or better out of 5.
Employee Engagement – Employees rank their value to the organization at 8 or better out of 10.
Partner with suppliers to build honest, trusted, sustainable relationships that ensure their provision of resources that meet Clow’s standards for quality, quantity, pricing, and on-time delivery.
Vet, select, manage, and terminate suppliers that are not meeting Clow’s integrity and quality requirements while regularly reporting on supplier reliability and quality.
Research new materials and suppliers, host supplier visits, and manage the relationship with Sales to locate new sources.
Expedite parts/orders; work with internal customers on material issues and orders.
Maintain documents in compliance with ISO standards and ensure suppliers comply with ISN requirements.
Oversee the HVAC preventive maintenance and general grounds maintenance providers.
Create, coach, mentor, develop, support, and lead a unified team of two direct reports to create and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with all stakeholders including suppliers and internal customers--such as the engineering division.
Act as an honest and fair informational resource in the organization for issues such as inventory, vendor options, and quality issues.
Collaborate with MCF, machine shop, and the engineering division to improve results and move quality improvement initiatives forward.
Motivate colleagues to provide necessary information to suppliers in or less than the timeframe promised.
Mentor and develop the engineering team, work with supervisors and facility managers to trial and report on new materials.
Strategically identifies new opportunities to reduce expenses, control quality, and ensure sustainability.
Manage and negotiate pricing, contracts, intercompany purchases, MRO purchases, and vendor contracts to contain, avoid, and reduce costs.
Implement strategies to identify cost saving opportunities with large supplier base of 100 primary suppliers and thousands of secondary suppliers.
Keep current with commodity market pricing to ensure competitive rates; hold suppliers accountable for promised goods/terms, and ensure supplier ROI.
Sell/convert borings, network to manage costs with sister company’s corporate supply team, report costs, manage inventory to reduce waste and scrap, communicate inventory levels, forecast raw materials, and maintain standards set for the year.