Purchasing Manager

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for leading the plant's purchasing team and ensuring materials, components, supplies, and services are available to support production schedules and customer requirements. This position supervises approximately 9-12 Buyers and oversees daily purchasing activities, including production schedule reviews, RFQ management, supplier management, purchase order creation, order confirmations, and past-due purchase order recovery. The Purchasing Manager works closely with Production Planning, Engineering, Quality, Warehouse, Finance, and Operations to resolve material shortages, maintain supplier performance, control purchasing costs, and prevent disruptions to manufacturing. Roles and Responsibilities 1. Manage, train, coach, and develop a purchasing team of approximately 9-12 Buyers. 2. Assign suppliers, commodities, projects, and purchasing responsibilities to team members. 3. Establish daily and weekly priorities based on production schedules, material shortages, and customer requirements. 4. Monitor buyer workloads and redistribute assignments when necessary. 5. Review buyer performance, purchasing accuracy, responsiveness, and follow-up activities. 6. Conduct regular team meetings to review shortages, open purchase orders, past-due orders, supplier issues, and upcoming production requirements. 7. Establish measurable goals and performance expectations for the purchasing team. 8. Responsible for interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and training new purchasing employees. 9. Review current and future production schedules to identify material requirements and purchasing priorities. 10. Ensure Buyers are placing orders early enough to support scheduled production dates while avoiding unnecessary excess inventory. 11. Coordinate with Production Planning and Warehouse to identify material shortages and potential schedule risks. 12. Escalate critical shortages and develop recovery plans with suppliers and internal departments. 13. Monitor changes to production schedules and ensure purchase orders are adjusted accordingly. 14. Support inventory reduction efforts while maintaining the material availability required for production. 15. Participate in production, scheduling, shortage, and operations meetings. 16. Oversee the company's Request for Quote (RFQ) system and ensure RFQs are completed accurately and on time. 17. Assign RFQs to Buyers and monitor open, pending, and overdue RFQs. 18. Ensure Buyers obtain competitive quotations when required. 19. Review supplier pricing, lead times, payment terms, freight terms, quality history, and production capabilities. 20. Maintain accurate RFQ documentation and supplier quotation records. 21. Track RFQ performance, including response times, cost savings, supplier participation, and award status. 22. Work with Engineering and Operations to ensure suppliers receive complete drawings, specifications, quantities, and delivery requirements. 23. Manage and maintain the company's supplier management system. 24. Support the qualification, evaluation, approval, and ongoing monitoring of suppliers. 25. Monitor supplier performance in the areas of quality, delivery, cost, service, responsiveness, and lead time. 26. Conduct supplier performance reviews and communicate corrective action requirements. 27. Lead or support supplier corrective actions when quality or delivery performance does not meet expectations. 28. Develop improvement plans for underperforming suppliers. 29. Identify, qualify, and develop alternate suppliers to reduce supply-chain risk. 30. Build strong working relationships with key suppliers. 31. Conduct supplier meetings, business reviews, negotiations, and site visits when necessary. 32. Create and open purchase orders as needed to support production and operational requirements. 33. Review purchase orders for correct pricing, quantity, part number, revision level, delivery date, shipping terms, and payment terms. 34. Review and resolve purchase order di…

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