Supply Planning & Procurement Manager
IDEX CorporationIf you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.
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Position Summary:
The Supply Planning & Procurement Manager is responsible for leading all planning, purchasing, supplier performance, and material management activities for a highly customized engineered-to-order and make-to-order manufacturing environment. This role develops and executes supply chain strategies that ensure material availability, supplier reliability, cost competitiveness, and on-time delivery of customer projects. The successful candidate will build a disciplined procurement and planning organization capable of supporting growth while managing supply risk, inventory investment, and cost performance.
Reports To:
Director of Value Stream
Essential Functions:
Position requirements include, but are not limited to:
Strategic Procurement & Supplier Management
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for critical commodities and supplier categories.
• Lead supplier selection, qualification, onboarding, and performance management initiatives.
• Establish supplier scorecards measuring quality, delivery, responsiveness, lead time, and cost performance.
• Conduct regular business reviews with key suppliers.
• Identify and implement supplier risk mitigation strategies.
• Drive supplier development initiatives to improve reliability and reduce supply chain disruptions.
• Lead contract and commercial negotiations to secure favorable pricing, terms, and delivery commitments.
• Develop secondary sourcing strategies for critical materials and components.
Improve supplier on-time delivery, responsiveness, and overall supply chain reliability through structured supplier performance management and continuous improvement initiatives .
Supply Planning and Project-Based Manufacturing
• Lead material planning activities within a Make-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order manufacturing environment.
• Ensure material availability aligns with project milestones and engineering release schedules.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Production, Project Management, and Customer Service teams to manage changing customer requirements.
• Develop planning methodologies that accommodate long lead-time and custom engineered components.
• Manage supply chain impacts associated with engineering changes and project scope modifications.
Required Experience
• 7+ years of progressively responsible supply chain leadership experience.
• Minimum 3 years leading procurement and planning teams.
• Experience in capital equipment, industrial machinery, automation, process equipment, or engineered products manufacturing.
• Experience operating in Make-to-Order (MTO) and/or Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturing environments.
• Proven track record improving supplier performance and procurement processes.
Preferred
• APICS CPIM or CSCP certification.
• Experience with supplier development programs.
• Experience implementing procurement process improvements.
• Advanced ERP planning system knowledge.
The Ideal Candidate Will:
• Be equally comfortable working with suppliers and manufacturing operations.
• Have experience managing supply risk in custom manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrate strong commercial negotiation capabilities.
• Be capable of introducing structure and discipline into planning and procurement processes.
• Lead through influence while building accountability within the…