Purchasing Manager

Purchasing Manager

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.
• Directly manage team of buyers by clearly establishing and managing workload and responsibilities of staff.
• Maintain and communicate records of goods ordered and received.
• Develop and leverage all current vendor relationships.
• Develop and source new/future vendor relationships.
• Interact cross-departmentally with department managers in order to effectively communicate supply chain short and long term goals, problems, and solutions.
• Develop ERP/Inventory Management Max/Min and Replenishment data.
• 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.
• May include some traveling in order to define new vendor relationships.
• Negotiate and manage contracts on behalf of the organization.
• 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 Certificates of Analysis.
• Review, evaluate and develop multiple standardized purchase order form templates for conformance to company policy.

Reports To: Director of Operations and VP of Operations.