Essential Functions

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• Supervises buyers and purchasing staff in the purchasing, handling, and distribution of materials, raw materials, supplies, equipment, services, etc. to support the business workflow.
• Oversees the material and supply support across the organization to support an consistent, productive, and uninterrupted inventory availability for all standard and critical components.
• Maintains awareness of company-wide initiatives, engineering developments, and manufacturing method improvements to stay abreast of emerging business movements.
• Reviews forecast and business actuals against teams submission to ensure sufficient timelines and quality level.
• Partners with upper management to develop, enhance, streamline, and oversee purchasing procedures and processes.
• Monitors and audits Purchasing practices to ensure accuracy, efficiency and standardization.
• Ensures team adherence to company and department policies, maintains on-time processing of orders and invoices, and continuously seeks cost-saving efforts.
• Reviews quotes and partners with team on bids and contract negotiation.
• Manages, audits, and ensures proper handling and approval of contracts. Interacts and executes demand signals from the enterprise MRP system to generate new purchase orders and sourcing requirements.
• Conducts product research, availability, pricing, etc. to ensure departments, labs, special needs are met and completed in a timely manner.
• Analyzes and maintains awareness of market and delivery conditions to determine present and future material availability; escalates potential concerns to upper management and affected business units.
• Informs upper management and affect business units of market prices and trends, engineering developments, and manufacturing method improvements to stay abreast of emerging business movements.
• Interfaces with all departments and resolves material and supply issues as necessary.
• Investigates sources of supply and issue requests for quotes on items not covered on existing purchase agreements/contracts.
• Evaluates, selects, and establishes working relationships with vendors.
• Negotiates with vendors to obtain agreement on pricing, delivery, specifications, performance terms and acceptance criteria; develops most suitable purchasing arrangement.
• Analyzes Purchasing reports/data to identify discrepancies or areas for improvement.
• Analyzes incoming requisitions for quality, specification, pricing, and delivery requirements
• Recommend cost savings improvements through changes of purchasing systems, sources, and quality.
• Collaborates with Accounts Payable and Receiving to resolve all accounting issues.
• Partners with RA/QA department to process new product approvals and other supplier quality requirements.
• Visits suppliers facilities; performs supplier capability reviews.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant quality management system (QMS) regulations and company policies.
• Arranges for submission and inspection of sample products to RA/QA to ensure adherence to FDA regulations.
• Participates in internal and external regulatory audits.
• Trains team members and assists team in negotiating pricing, reviewing/processing contracts, cost saving efforts, etc., and to resolve any problems that may arise.
• Acts as both coach and mentor to staff in areas of problem solving, decision making, process improvement; works with team members to provide guidance and individual career development plan.
• Ensures all direct reports understand the performance standards of their department and have a clear understanding of their own individual performance.
• Conducts performance evaluations, rewards employees for positive behavior and provides corrective feedback for performance issues.
• Coordinates with Human Resources in a timely manner on any and all employee relations matters.
• Supervises staff in accordance with and ensuring team adheres to Company policies and procedures.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or related field.
• Minimum eight (8) of purchasing and materials control experience, three years in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience leading a team.
• Previous experience managing supply chain related activities (i.e. MRP, Forecasting, Inventory Control and Logistics) within an established ERP software system).
• Strong knowledge and understanding of standard concepts, practices, and procedures within accounting and purchasing.
• Strong understanding of Quality Management Systems (QMS) principles and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards.
• Experience working with Dynamic 365, highly preferred.

Special Requirements/Certification:

• AIPICS CPIM (Certified Practitioner Inventory Management) certification, a plus.

Pay Range: $93,000.00 to $105,000.00/ yr

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