Purchasing Manager

The Purchasing Manager's responsibilities include developing purchasing strategies, maintaining positive relationships with suppliers, coordinating with internal teams regarding their supply needs, and overseeing the purchasing team in their daily activities.

·        Develop and implement purchasing strategies, procedures to accomplish procurement of a variety of materials in a cost-effective manner

·        Managing daily purchasing activities, supervising buyers, and allocating tasks.

·        Ensures quality of procured items and addresses problems when they arise.

·        Ensure buyers place all purchase orders on time per MRP requirement

·        Ensure buyers execute open orders on weekly basis, push out, pull in and cancel on time per MRP message

·        Ensure buyers update shortage reports, attend CFT meetings, Clear MRB’s and receiving discrepancies on time

·        Monitor buyer activities, Create and Monitor purchasing metrics and KPI’s

·        Ensure buyers follow processes such as Excess process, PPV process, ECO process etc.

·        Ensuring that all procured items meet the required quality standards and specifications.

·        Return excess materials back to vendors on time prior vendor warranty / return period’s

·        Managing supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines,

·        Coordinate with warehouse to determine and manage inventory needs.

·        Work to improve purchasing systems and processes.

·        Training new employees in the purchasing process and how to use the purchasing system.

·        Assesses market conditions which may affect procurement

·        Reduce in-house inventory, Setup VMI, Kanban Systems

·        Negotiates best possible price and credit terms possible for goods and services.

·        Develops new supply sources when vendors are adequate or when customers provide suggestions of what vendors they would like to work with when building their products.

·        Verifies purchase requisitions for appropriate approvals, account, and cost center numbers.

·        Tracks delinquent arrivals from purchase orders, Clear discrepancies, MRB, Invoice issues.

·        Collaborates with other departments and leadership to identify and develop needs and requirements for equipment, materials, products, and acceptable substitutions.

·        Assesses current material availability; reasonably predicts future availability based on the market, delivery systems, and other variables.

·        Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness

·        Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.

·        Assess, manage, and mitigate risks

Requirements:

·        Strong supervisory and leadership skills with the ability to effectively train others.

·        (5) years’ experience as a Senior Buyer or Purchasing Manager in a NPI contract manufacturing environment consisting of PCBA and Mechanical assemblies

·        (5) years of experience in Purchasing, Warehouse and Logistics in an EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services) environment.

·        Possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Business or a related area or equivalent experience