Supply Chain/Procurement manager

JOB SUMMARY The Purchasing Manager is responsible for leading the company’s purchasing and strategic sourcing activities to ensure the timely availability of raw materials, packaging materials, ingredients, supplies, and services required to support production and business operations. This position is responsible for developing and executing purchasing strategies, managing supplier relationships, negotiating pricing and terms, improving supplier performance, controlling procurement costs, and maintaining appropriate inventory levels. The Purchasing Manager works closely with Supply Chain, Production Planning, Production, Quality, Warehouse, Finance, and Sales to ensure materials are available at the right quantity, quality, cost, and timing to support customer demand and production requirements. RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Purchasing & Procurement Management · Lead daily purchasing activities and ensure purchase orders are issued accurately and on time. · Review MRP, production plans, inventory levels, forecasts, demand requirements, and material availability to determine purchasing needs. · Develop and maintain purchasing plans for raw materials, ingredients, packaging, components, supplies, and other operational requirements. · Monitor open purchase orders and proactively expedite, reschedule, or cancel orders based on changes in demand and production requirements. · Ensure materials are purchased in accordance with approved specifications, quantities, lead times, and budget requirements. · Establish appropriate purchasing parameters including minimum/maximum quantities, safety stock, order quantities, and lead times. · Coordinate with Warehouse to ensure timely receiving and accurate inventory transactions. 2. Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management · Develop and execute sourcing strategies for key materials and services. · Identify, evaluate, qualify, and develop new suppliers to improve cost, quality, capacity, lead time, and supply continuity. · Maintain a qualified supplier base and establish alternative sources for critical materials. · Negotiate pricing, payment terms, lead times, MOQs, freight terms, contracts, and other commercial conditions. · Conduct supplier performance reviews and develop corrective action plans when performance does not meet expectations. · Build strong, professional relationships with strategic suppliers while maintaining appropriate commercial leverage. · Monitor supplier financial, operational, capacity, and supply-chain risks. 3. Cost Management · Develop and execute cost-reduction initiatives through strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, volume consolidation, and specification optimization. · Monitor material price changes and identify opportunities to reduce procurement costs. · Maintain accurate purchasing price information and communicate significant cost changes to Finance and Supply Chain leadership. · Support annual budgeting and forecasting of material and procurement costs. · Analyze purchase price variance (PPV) and identify root causes of unfavorable variances. · Partner with Finance and Operations to evaluate total landed cost, including material, freight, duties, MOQ, inventory carrying cost, and other related costs. 4. Inventory & Supply Planning · Balance material availability with inventory investment and working-capital objectives. · Monitor inventory levels, excess and obsolete materials, slow-moving inventory, and potential shortages. · Establish and maintain appropriate safety-stock levels for critical materials. · Coordinate with Supply Chain and Production Planning to align purchasing decisions with production schedules and customer demand. · Proactively identify potential material shortages and develop recovery plans. · Support inventory accuracy initiatives, cycle counting, and root-cause analysis of inventory discrepancies. 5. Supplier Quality & Performance · Work with Quality and suppliers to resolve material quality issues and non-conformances. · Ensure suppliers me…

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