Purchasing Manager

Palm Harbor Homes • Glendale, AZ

2d

About The Position

The procurement and purchasing team members are critical to ensuring production
materials are sourced at the lowest cost while maintaining quality standards and
consistently delivered on time to meet production schedules.

At the plant level, the purchasing manager coordinates with corporate
procurement as well as identifies and maintains local and regional suppliers of
materials working to optimize the cost, quality, and reliability of the supply
chain. He/she supervises purchasing agents who coordinate day to day material
and supply purchases. This role retains complete accountability for execution
and continuous improvement of a business process and development and coaching of
the team responsible for that process. He/she is accountable for mapping,
documenting, reengineering, quality assurance, staffing, metrics, controls, risk
identification, and service level expectations. The majority of this role’s
effort is spent supervising two or more employees and managing overall team
expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree preferred
• At least 5 - 8 years of work experience in purchasing and/or costing
• Effective time management Skills
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task
• Demonstrate a good work ethic based on principles of honesty and integrity
• Experience with Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

• Reviews requisitions.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Selects products for purchase by testing, observing, or examining items.
• Lead, coach, mentor and train staff • Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
• Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid.
• Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality assurance personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
• Approves invoices for payment.
• Verifies specifications of purchase requests.
• Counts inventory items to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.
• Prepares purchase orders and sends to supplier and department originating request.
• Computes total cost of items purchased.
• Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
• Verifies bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves bills for payment.
• Expedites delivery of goods to users.
• Meets production requirements on a daily basis while controlling inventory levels with various lead times.
• Assists heavily with periodic plant inventory.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees