Position: Purchasing Manager
Job Summary:
- Manage all aspects of purchasing, inventory, shipping and receiving.
Essential Duties:
- Create and submit for approval policies and procedures for the operation of purchasing activities.
- Evaluate products, services and vendors to determine improvement or replacement.
- Recommends design changes to reduce costs and improve process. Leverages purchasing power.
- Negotiates blanket purchase orders when appropriate and monitors cost during the time period.
- Implement Lean Manufacturing concepts and techniques.
- Receiving – verify all items received, track late arrivals.
- Provide data for use in scheduling, planning, budgeting and other functional activities.
- Coordinate Vendor Managed Inventory System.
Skills and Abilities:
· Must be detail orientated and have ability to multi-task.
· Self motivated.
· Team player
· Ability to communicate professionally with people at all levels of the organization and external contacts
· Negotiating skills
· Solid decision making skills
· Must have a background in manufacturing and purchasing