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About The Position

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in a high-volume environment, particularly high-volume, low-cost purchasing.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment and with MRP.
• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Management, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Experience in both foreign and domestic sourcing, with strong logical and negotiation skills.
• Good working knowledge of ERP systems; Epicor or SAP preferred but not required.
• Effective communication and negotiation skills suited to global markets and supply bases.
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with internal customers, vendors, and employees.
• Effective organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Ability to interact day to day with personnel in sales, retail, and operations, and with Finance, Materials, Logistics, Operations, Sales, and Marketing.
• Strong analytical and deductive reasoning skills, and quantitative and mathematical abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple suppliers with more than 10,000 SKUs.
• Ability to perform essential responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with EDI/ERP implementation.
• Inventory or quality management training or certification, such as APICS, Six Sigma, or CSCP.
• Experience with Epicor or SAP ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage tactical and strategic commodity responsibilities across multiple production locations.
• Develop suppliers and support supplier certification, development, and lead-time reduction.
• Direct staff in certain purchasing activities.
• Manage delivery and inventory, including inventory goals, long lead-time supplier programs, and obsolescence.
• Address purchasing costs, purchase orders, accounts payable issues, supplier reduction, and savings initiatives.
• Maintain accurate supplier system and file data.
• Support engineering and program changes.
• Use computers to organize and locate inventory and operate spreadsheet and word-processing software.
• Negotiate prices, discount terms, and transportation arrangements for merchandise.
• Manage assigned commodities and multiple suppliers.
• Confer with sales and purchasing personnel to obtain information about customer needs and preferences.
• Examine, select, order, and purchase merchandise at favorable prices while considering quality, quantity, specifications, and other factors.
• Monitor and analyze sales records, trends, and economic conditions to anticipate buying patterns and determine merchandise and inventory needs.
• Authorize invoice payments or merchandise returns.
• Interview and work closely with vendors to obtain and develop desired products, as applicable.
• Maintain records related to cost, delivery, supplier performance, and inventory levels.
• Manage projects and processes independently with limited supervision, and coach and review lower-level professionals.
• Travel domestically or internationally as needed; travel is estimated at 15%.

Benefits

• Healthcare insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Different types of paid time off
• Comprehensive benefits package