Purchasing Supervisor

Summary Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, the Purchasing Supervisor leads, develops, and supports the purchasing team while maintaining active responsibility for key buying activities. This role ensures material availability, supplier performance, cost competitiveness, and operational excellence through effective leadership, strategic sourcing, project management, and continuous improvement initiatives. The Purchasing Supervisor plays a critical role in supporting production schedules, customer commitments, and overall business performance by securing quality materials at the best total cost. Essential Duties and Responsibilities This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time. Lead, coach, and develop purchasing team members by establishing priorities, providing direction, fostering accountability, and promoting a collaborative team environment. Perform hands-on purchasing activities, including reviewing material requirements, sourcing suppliers, obtaining competitive quotations, issuing purchase orders, and managing orders through delivery. Lead purchasing-related projects from planning through implementation, coordinating stakeholders, schedules, risks, and deliverables to achieve desired outcomes. Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance purchasing processes, improve supplier performance, reduce waste, and increase service levels to internal customers. Serve as the primary escalation point for purchasing-related issues, resolving material shortages, supplier concerns, pricing discrepancies, quality issues, and competing business priorities. Ensure materials are sourced and delivered on time, meet quality expectations, and support production schedules while optimizing total cost. Monitor supplier performance related to quality, delivery, cost, and service, implementing corrective actions and supplier development plans as needed. Develop, analyze, and communicate key purchasing metrics, including cost savings, supplier scorecards, on-time delivery, quality performance, inventory impacts, and other departmental KPIs. Analyze demand trends, forecasts, inventory levels, open orders, and market conditions to proactively identify material requirements, mitigate supply risks, and uncover cost-saving opportunities. Negotiate pricing, lead times, contracts, and commercial terms to secure reliable supply and maximize value for the organization. Partner closely with Operations, Planning, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and other stakeholders to align purchasing strategies with business objectives and customer commitments. Identify potential supply chain risks, develop contingency plans, and communicate potential impacts and mitigation strategies before disruptions occur. Maintain accurate supplier, pricing, purchasing, and purchase order data to support effective reporting, forecasting, and decision-making. Ensure all purchasing activities comply with company policies, contractual obligations, ethical standards, and applicable laws and regulations. Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education and/or Experience Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or related field required Minimum of 3 years of previous Purchasing experience in a manufacturing setting preferred Familiarity with the Steel industry highly preferred Experience with Epicor preferred Project management skills required Other Skills Proficient in Microsoft Office Advanced Excel skills preferred Ability to solve problems professionally and independently, in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities and competing deadline…

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