The Purchasing Manager will be responsible for maintaining consistency in purchasing methodology and procedures across all buyers.
They will identify and implement process improvement with a goal to minimize transactional costs associated with material delivery to the plant.
General Responsibilities
- Manage direct, evaluate, and develop a team of purchasing staff to ensure the team's resources are used effectively and work schedules and targets are met
- Manages plans, cost estimates, and schedules for integrating these needs into existing purchasing activities
- Responsible for reviewing policies, checklists, and other materials that describe the organization's technical, quality, service, or reliability standards to help purchasing staff evaluate supplier proposals
- Manage team of buyers to ensure they follow established procedures and policies
- Manage and evaluate the organization's overall purchasing trends to potential bulk purchases
Experience / Qualifications
- A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
- Ability to lead, coach, and develop team members
- Holds self and others accountable to achieving goals and standards
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to handle multiple competing tasks and demands
- Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation
- Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results
- Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity
- Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
- Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers
Excellence, Compliance and Process responsibilities:
- Map and maintain complete picture of procurement tools and software.
Lead the organization though decisions to change, update, bundle solutions.
- Define the KPIs and Performance measurement rules and tools.
coordinate with other Departments in alignment with company goals.
- Lead development/deployment of all procurement tools and software
- Generate and maintain Roles and Responsibilities for Procurement
- Map and Maintain Procurement processes, consolidate and remove if obsolete.
Align with other departments
- Coordinate the Communication initiatives, including the maintenance of the Procurement Teams and Sharepoint.
- Lead the procurement Corporate social responsibility and Sustainability efforts.
- Maintain clear organization chart and lead Training/Skill assessment efforts.
- Support the A.I. integration in Procurement processes.
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