Purchasing Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description:

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing the inbound supply chain of the entire company. The Purchasing Manager will typically manage a small team of 1-2 buyers.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish ownership of Purchasing Department encompassing all purchased materials within the company, developing the organization's purchasing strategy and vision.

  • Develop and implement short, mid, and long term department and company goals as it relates to purchasing.

• Directly manage team of buyers by clearly establishing and managing workload and responsibilities of staff.

  • Training, developing, disciplining, and selection of team.

• Maintain and communicate records of goods ordered and received.

  • Establishing systems and processes that maintain transparency as it relates but is not limited to: Ship Dates, Receive Dates, Tracking Information, Descriptions, Quantities, Certificates of Analysis', etc.
• Develop and leverage all current vendor relationships.

• Develop and source new/future vendor relationships.

  • Evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, delivery and speed.

• Interact cross-departmentally with department managers in order to effectively communicate supply chain short and long term goals, problems, and solutions.

  • Refine and monitor current data capturing methods in house for inventory reporting purposes.

• Develop ERP/Inventory Management Max/Min and Replenishment data.

  • Assist in implementation of new ERP System as it pertains to department.
• Analyze and monitor A/P and credit availability with vendors.
• Communicate and leverage A/P priorities in order to maintain steady stream continuous and fluid supply of purchased materials.
• Capture and analyze short and long term sales data in order to develop buying strategies.
• Coordinate and interact regularly with Production Planner in order to maintain ample supplies of raw materials necessary for production, factoring in lead times and unique product variables (EX: processing time).
• May include some traveling in order to define new vendor relationships.
• Negotiate and manage contracts on behalf of the organization (trade shows, symposiums, etc.).
• Forecasting price trends and their impact on future activities.
• Develop and implement seasonal/calendar based purchasing strategies based off past sales, internal data, and forecasting.
• Develop, standardize, and manage internal system for developing C of A's.
• Review, evaluate and develop multiple standardized purchase order form templates for conformance to company policy.

Reports To: Director of Operations and VP of Operations.