Title

Role/Job Description

Purchasing Manager

Responsible for selecting suppliers, negotiating, and administering long-term contracts, monitoring supplier performance, placing orders on suppliers, developing a responsive supplier base, and maintaining good supplier relations.

Responsibilities

•          Confer with current and prospective suppliers to determine supply capabilities. Recommend and lead the selection of suppliers with respect to quality, delivery and cost competitiveness.

•          Proactively develop executive level supplier relationship that result in achieving competitive costs, terms and availability of supply in all market conditions

•          Secure and analyse quotations. Assure information in RFQ is complete, supplier provides timely responses to quotations and to commercial and technical clarifications/questions in regards to their quote.

•          For parts that are new to the supplier, arrange for submission and inspection of initial production samples.

•          Follow-up on purchase orders, supplier contracts and material status and initiate purchase order amendments as necessary.

•          Assist in the expediting of supplier shipments as needed.

•          Work closely with the Production Scheduler/ Project Manager to create accurate forecasting and delivery schedules.

•          Analyze actual production requirements, forecast demand and current inventory levels with Production Scheduler to determine min/max inventory levels, optimal order quantities/releases, etc.

•          Support accounting as necessary to resolves discrepancies between purchase orders and invoices, delivery dates, delays, damages and rejections.

•          Support supplier quality engineering in conducting supplier on/off-site audits and evaluations, resolving quality issues, improving delivery and improve performance in other areas as necessary.

•          Be the communication hub to the suppliers including communication of supplier performance ratings and metrics.

•          Make recommendations regarding supplier performance and retention.  Take action to improve or eliminate non-performing supplier and/or consolidate suppliers as necessary.

•          Apply continuous improvement techniques and methods to internal processes and systems to increase efficiency, improve suppliers performance and reduce costs

•          Visit top suppliers to qualify them as new sources, maintain relationship through annual visit or assist in the resolution of production, design, quality, and/or delivery problems.

•          Maintain strong understanding of the market and trends in the assigned product areas.

•          Provide insight to the department, suppliers, and procurement activities that may assist in the establishing the short and long term direction of the department and organization as a whole.

•          Performs other duties as assigned

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

•          Knowledge of supply sources and market conditions in various commodities.

•          Knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques as well as an ability to “read” the market desirable.

•          Understanding of operations principles (JIT, MRP, TQC, Lean, Six Sigma and CRP) useful

•          Demonstrated experience and successful results in negotiation and collaboration skills and strategies.

•          Ability to work with little or no supervision.

•          Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables

•          Talent in networking and building new relationships

•          Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers.

•          Ability to working with cross functional teams

•          Proven ability to assess situations and develop plans to quickly resolve

•          Ability to occasionally travel to supplier (estimated <10%).

•          Ability to read part or PCBA blueprints/mechanical drawings is preferred.