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**Job Summary**:
**Summary**:
The “**Purchasing Manager Direct**” will be based in **Flex GDL North**, reporting to **Material Manager.**
This role will be coordinating activities involved with procuring direct materials, components and equipment.
**- Principal Accountabilities**:
- Prepares instructions regarding purchasing systems and procedures.
- Establishes goals for purchasing department.
- Follow-up policies and procedures for the operation of procurement activities.
- Manage and guide a team of buyers and expeditors to meet procurement and supplier management goals
- Interface with procurement groups in updating and maintaining company procurement strategies
- Implement processes with suppliers to improve on time delivery and Purchase Price Variance
- Helping implementation of Vendor Managed Inventory models
- Supervise the team in the management of the supply chain to achieve continuous timely supply of parts and services
- Approves purchase orders and change notices through subordinates.
- Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
- Ensures continuity of raw material supply to help production schedules and balances with achieving inventory level targets.
- Investigates inventory levels. Helps process to manage excess and obsolete material.




- Conduct supplier performance reviews and help the team to maintain supplier consistent on time delivery and implement processes with suppliers to ensure on time delivery and quality of product / service
- Keep senior management informed of present/future trends in availability and cost of materials, components and equipment
- Monitors on-time supplier deliveries, inventory turns, MRP execution, Purchase Price Variance, processing time reduction, supplier performance and cost investigation.
- Act as first point of escalation with suppliers and communicate all unresolved issues to the Senior Purchasing Manager
- Work closely with the team to ensure purchasing compliance to corporate directives
- Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce
- Ability to read, research and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedures.
- Ability to effectively present information and acknowledges to questions from groups.
**Skills**:
- Previous experience in electronics.
- Bachelor’s degree completed.
- Advanced English.
- Intermediate to Advanced Excel.
- Knowledge of MRP.
- Previous experience coordinating personnel.
- Experience managing KPIs.
**What you will receive for the excellent work you deliver**:
- Competitive salary
- Life and medical insurance
- Christmas bonus
- Food vouchers
- Savings fund
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**Job Category**: Integral Procurement & Supply Chain
**Required Skills**:
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