Natural Essentials
Purchasing Manager
Aurora, Ohio•Full-time
$70,000+ annually
$70,000+ annually
About the Job
Job Description:
The Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing the inbound supply chain of the entire company. The Purchasing Manager will typically manage a small team of 1-2 buyers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establish ownership of Purchasing Department encompassing all purchased materials within the company, developing the organization's purchasing strategy and vision.
- Develop and implement short, mid, and long term department and company goals as it relates to purchasing.
- Directly manage team of buyers by clearly establishing and managing workload and responsibilities of staff.
- Training, developing, disciplining, and selection of team.
- Maintain and communicate records of goods ordered and received.
- Establishing systems and processes that maintain transparency as it relates but is not limited to: Ship Dates, Receive Dates, Tracking Information, Descriptions, Quantities, Certificates of Analysis', etc.
- Develop and leverage all current vendor relationships.
- Develop and source new/future vendor relationships.
- Evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, delivery and speed.
- Interact cross-departmentally with department managers in order to effectively communicate supply chain short and long term goals, problems, and solutions.
- Refine and monitor current data capturing methods in house for inventory reporting purposes.
- Develop ERP/Inventory Management Max/Min and Replenishment data.
- Assist in implementation of new ERP System as it pertains to department.
- Analyze and monitor A/P and credit availability with vendors.
- Communicate and leverage A/P priorities in order to maintain steady stream continuous and fluid supply of purchased materials.
- Capture and analyze short and long term sales data in order to develop buying strategies.
- Coordinate and interact regularly with Production Planner in order to maintain ample supplies of raw materials necessary for production, factoring in lead times and unique product variables (EX: processing time).
- May include some traveling in order to define new vendor relationships.
- Negotiate and manage contracts on behalf of the organization (trade shows, symposiums, etc.).
- Forecasting price trends and their impact on future activities.
- Develop and implement seasonal/calendar based purchasing strategies based off past sales, internal data, and forecasting.
- Develop, standardize, and manage internal system for developing C of A's.
- Review, evaluate and develop multiple standardized purchase order form templates for conformance to company policy.
Reports To: Director of Operations and VP of Operations.