DIRECT HIRE Procurement Manager Opportunity!
Core working hours Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; however, must be available to work at varied times as required to accomplish goals and deliverables. Travel to various supplier locations, as required (up to 20%).
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement purchasing strategies
- Managing daily procurement department activities, supervise staff, and allocate assignments
- Manage supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, process, timelines, etc.
- Project Management and continuous improvement of purchasing systems and processes
- Negotiate advantageous pricing, terms, warranties, delivery and handling obligations, and penalties for late delivery
- Coordinates with Supplier development and quality to achieve cost of quality goals and reimbursement success
- Commodity Management support to achieve departmental goals including Supplier selection, RFP’s, RFQ’s for team evaluation
- Monitors and analyzes supplier performance, developing and implementing action plans to improve as needed
- Understand current industry and government regulations governing sustainability
- Audits and pre-qualifies vendors in conjunction with the Supplier Quality group for company compliance with diversity goals, cGMP and ISO and other certification requirements
- Analyze all vendor performance to improve purchasing process
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Supply Chain/ Business/ Engineering or related field; equivalent level of education, training and experience may be considered
- 5+ years of experience at a supervisory, management, or senior professional level role with emphasis on purchasing, procurement, or materials management
- CPSM, CPM, CPIM, CSCP strongly desired
- Broad knowledge and understanding of business costing, economics, and commercial awareness
- Ability to read and interpret drawings, material specifications, pricing indices, etc.
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills; builds positive working relationships with staff; can effectively lead, coach/mentor and develop clerical and support staff
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