Indirect Purchasing Lead
- Negotiate and manage all Indirect and MRO suppliers. Including pricing agreements, contract implementation, supplier maintenance.
- Develop a strategy to reduce costs incurred and meet budget requirements for the organization on an annual basis, including targets rolled out to improve profitability.
- Create POs for all North American locations, working with requisitioners to maintain an up-to-date PO process in the areas of purchasing services, MRO, testing supplies, off-the-shelf miscellaneous items, and web purchases
- Manage all inventories on MRI and indirect purchasing for all North American locations, inclusive of establishing re-points at all locations.
- Work with requisitioner on PO request errors and information updates, including additional information.
- Facilitate (NDA) Non- Disclosure Agreement with suppliers.
- Vendor Master for all new suppliers. Add documentation in PLEX for new suppliers (W9, supplier registration, service suppliers).
- Ensure data continuity within the PLEX system via audits.
- Ensure shared document continuity and record keeping of all contracts, internal approvals, KPIs procedures, and any other critical needs for the organization.
- Track, interpret, and communicates supplier performance and department KPI performance for our company.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or Supply Chain from a four-year college or university or ten (10) years of work experience in a business environment.
- Minimum of two (2) to five (5) years of experience in purchasing and procurement or similar experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills.
- Technical knowledge of manufacturing processes.
- Previous experience with ERP systems (PLEX a plus).
- Ability to thrive, without much oversight, in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
- A proactive and open-minded attitude to resolving problems and delivering results.
- Thinks Strategically: Acts with the long-term future in mind. Considers future impact when weighing decisions. Anticipates trends and future consequences.
- Takes Initiative: Exhibits strong drive for results and success; conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure; persists despite obstacles and opposition.
- Integrity: Acts and makes decisions in a manner consistent with the needs of the public in delivery of products/services. Acts in line with the culture and norms of both the organization and society in general.
- Promoting Teamwork: Facilitating involvement, participation, and assurance of decisions amongst self and others; creating a sense of belonging.
- Leads Change: Persistently moves in the face of ambiguity, dilemmas, and resistance to get completion of changes in an organized way; adapts with flexibility to and copes with changing situations while maintaining focus on goals.
- Delivers Results: Achievement oriented, feeling a sense of urgency to reach goals on time, if not before.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office equipment.
- Ability to adjust focus, especially due to concentration on a computer screen.
- May need to lift and carry up to 30 pounds and/or position the body to reach items on the floor/below knee level or reach overhead.
- The person in this position needs to occasionally move about in industrial environments and on uneven terrain.
- Works in a temperature-controlled office environment, with occasional work in outdoor weather conditions and in industrial environments.
- The noise level in the work environment can be moderately loud.
- Paid time off includes 4 weeks, 15 holidays, and parental leave.
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) offerings.
- Company provided 401K savings plan with immediately vested matching contributions to help you save for retirement.
- Voluntary benefits offerings.
- Tuition assistance.
- Employee Referral Program.
- Employee development and career growth opportunities.
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