Purchasing Manager

Our client, a manufacturing company located in Dunmore, PA, is looking for a Purchasing Manager (Confidential Search) to join their team.

What you will do in this role:

• Manage the purchasing of ingredients, raw materials, packaging, and production supplies to ensure uninterrupted manufacturing operations.
• Work closely with Production and Warehouse teams to ensure materials are available in the appropriate quantities and within required timelines.
• Monitor inventory levels, production requirements, forecasts, lead times, and purchasing schedules to optimize inventory while avoiding shortages or excess stock.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, ensuring agreed-upon pricing, quality, delivery schedules, service levels, and payment terms are maintained.
• Negotiate pricing, contracts, payment terms, freight arrangements, and other commercial conditions with suppliers.
• Evaluate existing and potential new suppliers based on cost, quality, capacity, reliability, food-safety requirements, and service.
• Coordinate the onboarding of new suppliers, including pricing agreements, credit setup, specifications, quality documentation, and other required approvals.
• Monitor supplier performance and work with Quality and Operations to address quality concerns, delivery issues, shortages, damaged materials, and other supplier-related problems.
• Track ingredient, protein, packaging, and commodity pricing and identify market trends that may impact purchasing costs and production margins.
• Research market conditions and communicate potential commodity price increases, supply constraints, shortages, and other procurement risks to management.
• Develop purchasing and supply-risk strategies to mitigate material shortages, price volatility, supplier disruptions, and changing market conditions.

What you will bring to the role:

• 5+ years of purchasing/procurement experience within a food manufacturing, CPG, or related manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience purchasing ingredients, proteins, raw materials, packaging, commodities, or production supplies.
• Experience negotiating supplier pricing, contracts, terms, and service agreements.
• Understanding of food manufacturing supply chains, production requirements, inventory management, and supplier lead times.

What our client is offering:

• A competitive salary and full medical/health benefits for the employee and their family.
• The chance to join a growing company with a great work environment.

If you feel that this role would be a good fit for you, please submit your resume today in MS Word format – Don’t forget to include your accomplishments and achievements.