The ideal candidate is a highly organized, detail-oriented team player who will oversee the entire order process. You will review proposals, negotiate prices, select the best suppliers, analyze trends, follow up with placed orders, verify delivery, approve payment, and maintain necessary records.

Responsibilities

• Develops and manages supplier relationships with assigned suppliers.
• Responsible for preparing requests for quotations (RFQ’s) based on projections for combined plant quantity and material requirements.
• Analyzes and assess quotes for timeliness, accuracy, quality, price and service as necessary to meet program and customer requirements.
• Based on quote analysis, recommends or selects suppliers according to purchase policy guidelines and consistent with commodity strategies.
• Responsible for understanding all plant requirements for the assigned commodities in order to leverage buying power.
• Pursues cost saving initiatives and supports engineering change management system with required commercial information.
• Purchases materials from suppliers at the lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability of source and urgency of need.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent equivalent experience in purchasing, inventory, or supply chain management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and techniques (TQM, Six Sigma, etc.)