Purchasing Supervisor

ITW•Piqua, OH

About The Position

Hobart Service and Parts, both part of Illinois Tool Works (ITW), have been supporting the food equipment industry for over 125 years. Together, we provide industry-leading service solutions and parts distribution for commercial food equipment across the country. With more than 1,800 associates nationwide, we serve as trusted partners to our customers—helping keep their operations running efficiently. Our employees are committed to delivering exceptional customer service, giving back to the communities where they live and work, and living out ITW’s core values of Integrity, Simplicity, Trust, Respect, and Shared Risk. SUMMARY This position has the responsibility for the purchasing of production and service parts including 3rd party manufacturing and outsourcing. Duties including planning, scheduling, initiating, monitoring and quality assurance of all procurement and contract activities while maintaining relationships with suppliers, negotiating purchasing contracts, solving order discrepancies, and managing the purchasing process from the requisition stage through delivery, ensuring best possible prices while maintaining the highest quality with acceptable lead times. Further, this role will be responsible for tracking and reporting key functional metrics to reduce costs and improve effectiveness as well as forecasting prices and market trends. Work requires independent and professional judgment, following internal ITW policies, procedures, and applicable local, state, and federal regulations, and is performed under the general direction of the Strategic Procurement Manager.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Materials, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
4+ years of Procurement experience
4+ years Team Lead/Supervisory experience

Nice To Haves

Certification of Professional Supply Chain Management is preferred but not required.
Six Sigma Green Belt preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Manages the day-to-day operations (R2P & P2P) of the procurement process with a strong understanding of service and parts purchasing, parts identification and purchasing strategies.
Oversee the Purchasing activities from Requisition stage through delivery ensuring best price to the highest quality standards at acceptable lead times.
Manages and reviews documents (purchase orders, contracts, NDA’s, SLA’s, etc.) for the procurement of all parts ensuring compliance to all Purchasing Policy Guidelines, as well as applicable federal and state laws.
Utilize contracts, best practices, spend analysis and supplier management techniques to manage cost and supply chain risk.
Monitors and manages inventory and supplier relationships and proactively knows when to effectively respond or engage contingency plans to prevent disruption to the business.
Assess current material availability, reasonably predicts future availability based on the market, delivery systems, and other variables.
Collaborates and builds strong working relationships with suppliers to identify cost saving opportunities, develop need requirements for parts, acceptable substitutions and resolve performance nonconformance.
Analyze data and apply findings in decision-making and drive innovative solutions with Suppliers.
Demonstrated ability to purchase challenging, sometimes unique, or obsolescent parts.
Collaborate with other department managers to clarify purchase requisitions, identify departmental needs, and refine specification/acceptable substitutions for future orders.
Works cross functionally with Inventory Control to identify proactive inventory adjustments in support of organizational goals.
Collaborate with the Strategic Procurement Manager in the development of procedures and controls with the purchasing function.
Develop department strategic initiatives, metrics, and measure team performance against those initiatives.
Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees, addressing complaints, coaching/mentoring for performance and resolving problems.
Must have a passion for motivating and inspiring others to grow and develop talent and bench strength within the team.
These supervisory responsibilities for the purchasing function must be in line with the goals and objectives set forth by the Strategic Procurement Manager.