Purchasing Agent

About Us

At Glen Dimplex Americas, people drive our success. We design innovative comfort solutions by focusing on customers, caring for people, valuing innovation, and keeping things simple. Our portfolio—Dimplex, Cadet, and Convectair—delivers trusted electric heating, fireplaces, and controls across North America. As part of Glen Dimplex Group, we’re a global leader in electrical heating and comfort technology. Our values: we think customer – we aim to put our customers at the center of everything we do, taking time to understand their needs; creating solutions that meet and exceed their expectations, enhancing everyday moments; we care about people – we recognize the power of a community with a common purpose; empathizing with others’ point of view and acting with integrity to create a safe and healthy environment; we value innovation – we are building a better future day by day; developing innovations that will create quality, consumer‑centric, sustainable solutions; we keep it simple – we make the complex simple by driving out inefficiencies; which enables us to be agile, responsive and to get the job done.

Job Summary

Responsible for all the purchasing activities including scheduling and purchasing of International and Domestic supplies. You will own the relationships with all domestic raw material suppliers and work closely with corporate resources to manage international supply chain. You will be a member of the transfer team, moving company products to the Vancouver facility. You will make critical decisions that help ensure safety, quality, delivery and cost targets are met. You will use your extensive Excel and data mining/analysis skills to ensure the Operations team has what it needs from a planning and component perspective to meet customer demand. Travel to other company locations may be required.

Responsibilities

• Procurement Planning & Execution: Analyze raw material coverage and issue purchase orders in accordance with production requirements, demand forecasts, and production schedules; ensure timely delivery of materials to meet production targets; monitor open orders and expedite or delay shipments as necessary; manage the inventory, replenishment and purchase of non-stock items including consumables, maintenance supplies, office supplies and services in support of the facility; monitor market conditions, price fluctuations, and product changes to ensure optimal buying decisions.
• Supplier Management: Source and evaluate suppliers to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and reliability; foster and grow relationships with suppliers; attend product and purchasing meetings; resolve delivery or quality issues quickly and effectively.
• Inventory & Cost Management: Manage raw material inventory targets in partnership with Supply Chain; optimize inventory by balancing production needs and inventory levels; collaborate with supply planning and production teams to avoid shortages or overstock situations; act proactively to identify and drive purchasing cost reduction initiatives; coordinate efforts with peer buyers across the organization to consolidate purchases, negotiate volume-based pricing, and reduce overall procurement costs; work with peer buyers to balance inventory across plants and minimize excess at a network level.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with supply planning, quality, logistics, maintenance and engineering teams to align parts, supplies and material availability with plant needs and production goals; provide timely updates on procurement status and risks; partner with peers across the business to drive consistency across operations; perform other duties as assigned to support production and business goals.
• Compliance & Documentation: Maintain accurate procurement records and documentation in SAP; ensure compliance with company policies, ethical sourcing standards, and applicable regulations.