Purchaser

About the role

The Purchaser will work to source and procure material and manage the supply base for a thriving business. The role provides material planning and purchasing functions for an OEM of heavy industrial process machinery.

Responsibilities

• Support operations in filling day to day needs for the organization
• Source, select, and develop supply base and on-time delivery of the supplier base
• Determine domestic versus foreign sourcing (landed costs, exchange rates, etc.) strategy
• Develop and maintain cost estimates, forecasts, and cost models
• Ensure understanding of TCO (total cost of ownership) on all purchases to increase best cost position
• Identify need for both low cost capacity of parts for projects and short lead time supply chains that enable aftermarket growth
• Build cost models to aid in the forecasting and understanding of what parts and materials should cost
• Define strategy for Inventory planning and control (set safety stock levels, lot quantities, etc.)
• Create department metrics to measure performance including purchase-price-variance
• Organize processes, procedures and working methods within the department, so that objectives and planning can be achieved
• Manage supplier’s performance and hold them accountable to pricing and on-time delivery
• Work with manufacturing and quality teams to qualify new suppliers
• Aid with the resolution of technical, quality, and receiving issues with suppliers and CPM resources
• Communicate effectively with manufacturing and engineering to ensure product quality
• Work with cross functional teams to improve business processes including BOMs, drawing revisions, and related documentation to suppliers
• Carefully coordinate the different businesses to manage supplier relationships as One CPM
• Perform other duties as required and assigned by Plant Manager

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field
• 3+ plus years of progressive leadership roles within sourcing, supply chain, operations, or project management
• Demonstrated experience in leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams, creating value for end customers, and driving operational excellence within areas of responsibility
• Strong financial acumen – the ability to utilize fundamental concepts of finance to manage budgets, forecast costs, and provide relevant information for data driven decision-making
• Creative thinking ability: It is essential that you can demonstrate originality and imagination in thinking while developing a solution to a problem
• Communication skills: They must be able to communicate clearly both orally and in writing, and present technical information clearly and succinctly across a variety of communication settings and audience
• Customer service skills: It is essential that you are customer focused – you must think and act from customer perspective
• Detail-orientation: You must factor in every detail in proffering holistic solutions
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills: clarify and resolve complex business issues by breaking them down into meaningful components to determine root cause, and to redesign internal and external business processes where necessary
• The ability to approach problems systematically and develop scalable solutions will be critical to succeeding in this role
• The ability to function in a highly dynamic, fast paced environment
• Must be organized with the ability to prioritize your time
• Self manages; takes initiative and able to collaborate across geographies and functions in a matrixed environment
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, customers, and suppliers
• Stress management skills: You must be able to handle high pressure and adverse situations with composure. You must have resilience and perseverance in the face of constraints
• Strong Project Management skills with the ability to set and manage to time based milestones and performance metrics
• Lead and manage to the CPM Core Values
• Must be able to communicate in English fluently
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access) with PowerBI preferred
• SAP Experience Preferred
• Leverage Lean DNA experience preferred