Function:
• Manage core operational responsibilities (i.e., material master data
maintenance, material planning, purchase order issuance and management)
for department.
• Drive internal adoption to and compliance with established procurement
policies and processes, and development of scalable business systems.
• Engagement with strategic sourcing to support supplier identification and
development efforts, analysis of business proposals, contract negotiations,
supplier database management and supplier business reviews / performance
scorecard programs.
• Assist in driving key procurement initiatives to support ongoing business
(CIP/WIN) goals and continuous improvement of systems and processes in
the procurement organization along with other projects as directed by
management.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Management
• Creates, trains and supports buyers on standard work, in order to maintain
consistency in quality and quantity of work output.
• Purchase order approval
• Capacity planning and balance of department workload
• Select, train, and develop skill level of subordinate personnel.
• Lead buyers to meet target metrics.
• Management of overall team performance including annual appraisals; and
• Responsible for effective implementation of relevant Engineering Change
Orders (ECOs)
Supplier management
• Establish and ensure suppliers meet operational and project performance
objectives.
• Engages and may lead specific supplier business reviews.
• Supports development of supplier strategies to meet Company performance
and growth.
• Drive installation of business interruption mitigations and commercial
agreements with selected suppliers
• Completes key assessments for selected suppliers: cost benchmarking,
quality system, capability and capacity reviews.
• Support (or lead where required) supplier forecast and performance reviews
to support supply planning and buffer demand volatility.
• Project and production support.
• Track line down occurrences and perform root cause analysis.
• Implement corrective actions to remove supply chain risk.
• Ensure expeditious delivery of all critical materials; and drive improvement
initiatives with project or production management as applicable.
Cost and contracting
• Complete annual cost reduction plans to achieve corporate initiative plan
where required.
• Support (and may lead) implementation of business and quality agreements
with selected suppliers to secure expectations for delivery, quality, cost and
other obligations of the business relationship.
• Supports standard cost setting activities.
Inventory management
• Implement inventory management techniques (Kanban) to increase raw
material inventory turns performance.
• Manage and provide critical inputs to excess and obsolescence reviews.
Business systems
• Increase productivity of buyers by reducing/eliminating administrative tasks
with improved leverage of core business systems. Examples include:
• Schedule agreement / control cycle
• Automating purchase orders placement
• Online quoting
• Paperless record management
• Drawing management/communication to suppliers
• Development/improvement of existing reports, create new
reports/tools/automation improvements.
Compliance
• Ensures department and staff operating procedures meet established
business processes and guidelines; and
• Develops and maintains applicable department work procedures and
instructions.
Skill/Job Requirements:
• BS degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience managing a purchasing
team in high and low volume-manufacturing environments. Significant new
product introduction experience is a plus.
• Significant computer experience including MS Office products and ERP
systems, preferably SAP and Agile. Strong Excel and Database skills.
• Proven track record of being an effective project manager in a fast paced,
high volume manufacturing company.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience working with Kanban systems and
other lean principles.
• Detailed working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling
and forecasting.
• Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
• Proven ability to lead a team to consistently achieve stretch goals and
objectives.
• Ability to provide positive direction by encouraging peers to have a
commitment to high standards of quality and performance.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effectively manages task breakdown, helps keep individual contributors on
task, player-coach; ability to step in and perform hard tasks.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience with proven track record of savings
• ~20% travel to both domestic and international suppliers
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