Purchasing Manager

Job description

Relocation assistance available for the right candidate. This role does not support sponsorship.

What You’ll Own

• Leadership of the purchasing team supporting corporately sourced raw materials and related purchasing activity
• Local purchasing execution, including purchase orders, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, expediting, issue resolution, and internal customer support
• Partnership with corporate sourcing to align plant needs, raw material requirements, supplier communication, and purchasing priorities
• MRO parts room leadership, including improving organization, accountability, service expectations, transaction discipline, labeling, storage practices, follow-through, and day-to-day issue resolution
• MRO inventory strategy, including addressing excess, obsolete, hard-to-find, duplicated, or poorly classified parts while strengthening critical spares, min/max levels, cycle counts, replenishment discipline, and inventory accuracy
• Parts availability and responsiveness to maintenance work orders, urgent repairs, planned shutdowns, and production support needs
• Daily leadership of buyers and parts room team members with clear expectations, coaching, communication, and accountability

Profile

• This Role May Be a Strong Fit If You
• Have led or improved an MRO parts room, storeroom, maintenance inventory, or plant materials function
• Know how to create order in a busy parts room without losing urgency or customer service
• Understand how poor inventory accuracy, weak replenishment, or missing parts can impact maintenance and production
• Can lead people while staying close enough to the work to remove barriers and improve daily execution
• Communicate well with maintenance, production, warehouse, suppliers, and corporate sourcing

Success Looks Like

• A more organized, accurate, and service-focused MRO parts room
• Better availability of critical spares, repair parts, and maintenance supplies
• Improved min/max discipline, cycle count accuracy, and ERP transaction quality
• Faster response to urgent maintenance needs and fewer production-impacting parts issues
• A parts room and purchasing team that understands expectations and takes ownership of execution

What You Bring

• 5–10+ years of experience in manufacturing materials, MRO, purchasing, supply chain, maintenance stores, or inventory leadership
• Hands-on experience improving parts room, storeroom, or MRO inventory performance
• Strong understanding of critical spares, min/max planning, cycle counts, inventory accuracy, and replenishment processes
• Experience supporting maintenance and production in a manufacturing or plant operations environment
• Leadership or supervisory experience in an operational setting
• Strong ERP/MRP and inventory control experience; SAP experience is helpful