Senior Purchasing Manager (Temporary)

Intellisense Systems • Torrance, CA

3d • $66 - $90 • Onsite

About The Position

Intellisense Systems, Inc. is a privately held company with a proven track record of developing and deploying innovative products that successfully operate in the most extreme environments. We are a fast-growing Southern California technology innovator that solves tough, mission-critical challenges for our customers in the aerospace, defense, and commercial markets. We design, develop, and manufacture advanced products for ground, maritime, and airborne applications. The Senior Purchasing Manager is responsible for maintaining and standardizing purchasing, shipping, and receiving activities for Intellisense. They will take full responsibility to implement purchasing policies and procedures for the entire corporation. This is a temporary assignment on-site in Torrance lasting until approximately July 2026

Requirements

• Bachelors’ Degree in Materials Management, Business Operations/Administration, Finance, or Related Field.
• 10+ years of purchasing experience within the aerospace or electronics manufacturing industry.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience that includes establishing goals and objectives for the purchasing department, coordinating purchasing activities, assigning/scheduling tasks, communicating expectations and deliverables.
• Strong contract negotiation skills of complex requests for equipment, supplies, and services from suppliers and subcontractors.
• Experience with Deltek Costpoint ERP/MRP System required
• Familiarity with AS9100 is required.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
• US Citizenship is required

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in business is a plus
• Certifications from Industry associations are a plus (CPM/CPPM)

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain corporate purchasing systems and procedures, which enable ISI to purchase from suppliers with the best delivery terms, quality, and total cost performance.
• Implement policies and procedures to enable ISI to enter partnerships with our suppliers, which foster excellent performance.
• Implement contractor purchasing system review (CPSR) policies and procedures to ensure ISI complies with Department of Defense requirements
• Collaborate with other managers to determine supply needs.
• Negotiate unique subcontracts and purchasing arrangements using knowledge that is based on a technical understanding of the types of purchases to be made, market factors and internal requirements.
• Maintains and furnishes purchasing records, analyses, cost data and reports for use in scheduling, planning, budgeting and other functional activities.
• Work closely with purchasing planners and coordinators to effectively manage material demand and supply flow.
• Expedite material from suppliers through receiving and inspection.
• Working with supplier to ensure accurate and timely of product and submissions of documents.
• Manages packaging and shipping per customer requirements.
• Administers new/changed supplier information to protect ISI and customer’s reputation
• Administer supplier improvement process to include quantitative supplier performance measures for quality and delivery performance.
• Ensures that adequate resources are provided for the purchasing/supply chain team.
• Accomplish Continuous Improvement initiatives: focus on cost savings, gross margin improvement, etc.
• Implement training programs for purchasing policies and procedures.
• Recent and detailed experience with Contractor Purchasing System Reviews (normally conducted by DCMA.)
• Job responsibilities within our organization are dynamic. This may not be a complete list of duties. Other responsibilities and duties may be assigned by your supervisor or upper management at any time.

Benefits

• The ability to innovate, develop, and transition prototype technologies into new products, and to be rewarded for successful transitions.
• The chance to continually work on new differentiating technologies and implement simple elegant solutions to meet customer needs and that make an impact.
• Leadership that enables its engineers with all the tools they need to be successful.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior