DIS-TRAN Steel Internal Transfer Portal - Purchasing Manager

About the Role

Come join our team at DIS-TRAN Steel! Our people – not our machinery - are our biggest assets. DIS-TRAN Steel’s leadership team lives by our company values, modeling our culture of respect and integrity each day. We're a team that likes to have fun, but we also know how to get stuff done. We are looking for a current employee who is ready to lead the purchasing function and help strengthen the way DIS-TRAN Steel manages purchasing processes, suppliers, commercial commitments, financial controls, and service to internal customers. Reporting to the EVP, the Purchasing Manager will lead purchasing team members and may have up to five direct reports. This is a strong opportunity for an employee who understands how our operations work, can lead people and processes, and is comfortable making decisions that affect cost, delivery, quality, supplier performance, and material availability. Experience gained in purchasing, supply chain, planning, inventory, receiving, operations, engineering, quality, maintenance, accounting, project coordination, or process improvement may transfer well to this role.

Competencies

• Implementing Vision and Values: Keeps the organization's vision, values, ethical standards, and business objectives at the forefront of purchasing decisions and actions
• Safety Leadership: Recognizes conditions that affect employee, contractor, and visitor safety; reinforces required controls; and promotes safe behavior throughout the organization
• Purchasing Leadership: Establishes clear purchasing priorities, controls, service expectations, and accountability for the team and purchasing process
• Commercial Judgment: Evaluates pricing, terms, lead time, capacity, service, quality, risk, and total cost and makes decisions within delegated authority
• Supplier Management: Builds professional supplier relationships, monitors performance, addresses gaps, and supports reliable supply and continuous improvement
• Customer Focus: Understands internal customer requirements and provides timely, accurate purchasing support while balancing organizational priorities, policies, and controls
• Managing Detail: Maintains accurate supplier, quotation, approval, purchase-order, pricing, delivery, invoice, rebate, forecast, and performance information
• Planning and Prioritization: Balances routine purchases, urgent requirements, supplier constraints, team workload, deadlines, and changing operational priorities
• Communication and Collaboration: Communicates requirements, decisions, commitments, risks, and corrective actions clearly with employees, leaders, suppliers, and cross-functional partners
• Accountability and Follow-Through: Takes ownership of purchasing results, team performance, process compliance, supplier commitments, and agreed improvement actions

Responsibilities

Purchasing Process and Controls

• Own and administer the purchasing process, including approved policies, procedures, approval limits, documentation requirements, supplier controls, and system workflows
• Develop, document, communicate, and improve purchasing procedures, standard work, forms, templates, and controls
• Train employees and affected departments on purchasing requirements, monitor compliance, address gaps, and maintain records that support authorized reviews

Team Leadership and Daily Purchasing Operations

• Lead purchasing team members by setting priorities, assigning work, balancing workloads, providing coaching, and maintaining accountability for timely and accurate results
• Review purchasing queues, open orders, overdue commitments, pricing changes, shortages, discrepancies, and escalated requests, then coordinate timely action
• Approve supplier selections, purchase orders, changes, exceptions, and other purchasing transactions within assigned authority and company policy
• Ensure purchase orders and supporting records accurately reflect approved pricing, quantities, items, specifications, freight, delivery, payment, and documentation requirements
• Coordinate urgent needs, remove obstacles, resolve escalated issues, and communicate significant risks or decisions to leadership and affected teams

Supplier Financial and Performance Management

• Evaluate suppliers based on capability, pricing, terms, capacity, lead time, delivery, responsiveness, service, quality, risk, and total cost
• Lead supplier discussions and negotiations involving pricing, terms, delivery commitments, service requirements, and corrective actions
• Monitor supplier performance, address recurring gaps, and coordinate recovery plans, corrective actions, escalation, or approved sourcing changes
• Partner with the Business Unit Controller and Accounting on purchasing commitments, cost projections, invoice controls, cash-management information, payment requirements, and system needs
• Oversee the timely resolution of pricing, quantity, receipt, invoice, freight, tax, payment-term, credit, and supplier-account discrepancies

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