Well established company with multiple manufacturing locations has an excellent opportunity available for an Assistant Procurement Manager. This position will assist in creating, directing, and coordinating activities in procurement. This position is being created to obtain optimum efficiency and alignment to the company’s mission and vision while providing successful operations with the company and its subsidiaries. This position will ensure current and future plans in the areas of quality, product reliability, quality, and quantity specifications and standards.
Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
General
Comply with all environmental, health, safety, and quality standards, including ISO.
Develop, adhere to, and monitor ISO standards related to job responsibilities.
Initiate or suggest ideas and support continuous improvement efforts in all areas of organization.
Drive and support an innovative team mindset.
Responsible to be onsite to work with leadership team, support production, and attend leadership meetings and report all activities for procurement planning to include any material or supplier issues.
Other duties as assigned.
Procurement
Communicate with leadership teams any issues in procurement planning that could impact operations and make recommendations to protect the company.
Maintain a positive relationship and work with suppliers for successful negotiations of materials.
Assist in maintaining logistics of raw materials.
Assist in negotiating, managing, and coordinating all contracts with suppliers regarding pricing, quality, and delivery.
Interface with outside suppliers, management, administration, finance, production, R&D, QA, sales, and corporate planning.
Assist in creating, managing, and reporting a departmental budget in the areas of procurement planning.
Participate in various committees related to procurement and production planning.
Analyze sales forecasts and work with departments in planning to ensure timely scheduling.
Assist in creating, managing, and coordinating supplier performance metrics. Review supplier performance in terms of quality, on-time shipments, order accuracy (quantity, pricing, confirmations, etc.); support identification and qualifications of new suppliers in collaboration with other departments.
Participate in projects for ERP optimization, that include automating and integrating preproduction (order entry related) systems.
Inventory:
Assist in analyzing, managing, and reporting on raw materials and packaging to maintain sufficient inventory.
Maintain procedures to control inventories at adequate supply levels based on stock levels, orders, production schedules and forecasts.
Work with suppliers of operating supplies to develop and maintain effective vendor supported inventory programs.
Work with internal departments to provide suppliers with information relative to future needs.
Confer with technical, manufacturing, sales, and suppliers to discuss defective or unacceptable material to determine source and take corrective action.
Requirements:
BS degree in Business Administration, Accounting or related field required.
Three to five years of previous experience in a related field.
One plus years of experience in a supervisory role.
Three plus years of experience working in a manufacturing environment.
Strong knowledge and understanding of procurement processes and contract principles.
Strong knowledge of supplier contract negotiations.
Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
Knowledge of regulations and laws such as import/export and customs requirements are preferred.
Strong IT knowledge and skills including knowledge and understanding of ERP and data systems.
Advanced Microsoft Office Suite or similar software to include Excel and PowerPoint.
