Procurement Lead

About This Role

The Procurement Lead manages day-to-day operational and tactical buying activities to ensure uninterrupted material flow supporting Noveon’s magnet manufacturing operations. This role owns purchase order execution, supplier delivery performance, and inventory replenishment, translating production demand signals into timely, cost-effective procurement actions. The Procurement Lead also owns spend analytics and supplier performance reporting, manages structural supply risk for critical materials, and partners closely with production, planning, and accounts payable to maintain continuity of supply for raw materials, MRO, and indirect spend. This role requires a rare combination of strategic thinking, technical fluency in rare earth and advanced materials markets, and hands-on procurement execution capability.

What We Have To Offer

• Competitive Base
• Medical/Dental/Vision insurance on day 1 of employment
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with Employer contribution
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) retirement plan and match program
• Long Term Disability (Employer Paid)
• Short Term Disability (Employer Paid)
• Paid Time Off (eligible after 90 days of employment)
• Sick Leave
• Company Paid Holidays

What You’ll Be Doing

• Executing and managing purchase orders from requisition through receipt, ensuring accuracy of pricing, quantities, lead times, and delivery dates.
• Converting demand and replenishment signals into timely buying actions to maintain target inventory and safety stock levels without overstocking.
• Expediting and de-expediting orders to align supply with shifting production schedules and resolve shortages, delays, and discrepancies.
• Monitoring and driving supplier delivery performance (OTIF), holding vendors accountable to committed lead times and quality requirements.
• Owning monthly spend analytics and supplier scorecard reporting, including savings pipeline tracking and procurement KPI reporting, and present insights to supply chain and finance leadership.
• Developing and maintaining supply risk-mitigation strategies, including assurance of supply, single-source risk reduction, alternative-supplier qualification, and exposure to tariff and critical-material availability.
• Monitoring market conditions and pricing for assigned categories, providing market intelligence to inform sourcing and inventory decisions for critical raw materials.
• Resolving invoice, receipt, and PO discrepancies in partnership with Accounts Payable and Receiving.
• Maintaining accurate item master, vendor, pricing, and lead-time data in the ERP system.
• Managing MRO and indirect spend buying, identifying tactical cost-savings and consolidation opportunities.
• Supporting strategic sourcing initiatives by providing transactional data, spend analysis, and supplier performance input.
• Ensuring procurement activity complies with internal controls, approval authority matrices, and audit requirements.

We Are Looking For Someone Who Has

• A bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Materials Science, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressive procurement and supply chain experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
• A proven ability to negotiate complex, long-term supply agreements with significant dollar value
• Strong financial acumen — comfortable with cost modeling, TCO analysis, and working capital trade-offs
• Experience managing supply chains with geopolitical or regulatory complexity (ITAR, EAR, conflict minerals, country-of-origin requirements)
• Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, and executive communication skills
• Proficiency in SAP S/4HANA, with hands-on experience configuring and maintaining MRP parameters

Preferably

• Direct experience with rare earth, magnet, or advanced materials supply chains
• Experience working with or selling to U.S. Department of Defense or government prime contractors
• An MBA or advanced degree
• APICS CSCP, ISM CPSM, or equivalent professional certification
• Prior experience in a high-growth, private-equity or venture-backed manufacturing environment

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk, phone use, and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift/move up to 15 pounds at times.
• Ability to wear required PPE when on production floor.

About Noveon Magnetics

At Noveon Magnetics, we’re reimagining the rare earth magnet industry and changing the way we electrify the world. We’re a fast-growing, diverse team of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators from across the globe united by a shared mission to support the commercialization of our magnet manufacturing technology and forge a new path toward resource efficiency, resource independence and a low-carbon economy. As the only U.S manufacturer of permanent rare earth magnets essential to a range of technologies that rely on an electric motor--from electric vehicles to medical devices to aerospace and defense systems to clean energy--we’re ushering in an electric future that is 100% Made in America. All our operations, from R&D through production, assembly, and delivery, are conducted out of our state-of-the-art manufacturing center in San Marcos, Texas.