Purchasing Manager
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Location: Janesville, WI 53546
Description:
Main Duties
Responsibilities in terms of Quality, Safety, Environmental Progress
Qualifications
- Implement the Group's Purchasing strategies
- Propose and implement action plans required to ensure compliance with Purchasing strategies
- Suggest ways to optimize costs within the framework of the defined Purchasing strategy
- Suggest ways to improve technical productivity at his/her site
- Take part in defining the annual productivity objectives for his/her activity
- Make the decisions required to optimize his/her results
- Work to continuously improve Purchasing activity
- Manage purchases for his/her site(s)
- Negotiate purchases with suppliers (production and non-production)
- Help to reduce stock and to improve supplier payment terms
- Prevent and handle supplier disputes
- Ensure compliance with regulations in force
- Manage updates or update purchasing prices for listed items
- Help to monitor quality objectives to be reached by suppliers; Monitor and implement associated action plans
- Play a proactive role in all site-related negotiations (quality, cost, deadline, services)
- Help to continuously improve the purchasing activity
- Compile required reports to meet deadlines
- Pass on information required for their activity to buyers, supplier quality representatives, specifiers, and internal customers
- Capitalize on information obtained within the framework of his/her activity, prepare feedback, and make this information available to other employees
- Help to achieve purchasing productivity
- In liaison with commodity buyers, develop productivity schedules
- Monitor purchasing productivity schedules for his/her site
- Propose the assignment of series markets to the Sourcing Committee
Responsibilities in terms of Quality, Safety, Environmental Progress
- Use and follow processes, instruction sheets and appendices and propose improvements.
- Integrate legal, accounting and fiscal requirements and internal safety prevention/protection and environmental rules into his/her purchasing role and ensure compliance with these rules.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business or Engineering preferred
- Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- SAP experience is preferred
- Automotive experience preferred with basic technical understanding of injection molded components
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office with specific expertise in Outlook, Excel and Project
- High level of analytical ability to deal with unusual and complex issues
- Basic accounting or finance skills to read and interpret components of an income statement
- Cost breakdown analysis
- Must be able to conduct negotiations with suppliers as well as internal customers to deliver the goals and objectives of the organization
- Functional expertise in MRP database systems
- Excellent communication skills (presentation, written, verbal) of both technical and non-technical
- Demonstrated ability to build bridges between different functional areas, resolve conflict, and help internal teams understand needs of other groups, while developing collaborative solutions and ensuring deadlines are met