Purchasing Manager

Description

At Premier Marine, we believe that people come first
, and as a valued Purchasing Manager, you will play a crucial role in our family-owned business. Guided by our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Attitude, and Collaboration, you’ll join a dedicated team where your contributions matter. Here, you’ll work on building the world’s best pontoons in a supportive environment that focuses on your personal and professional development. We’re committed to ensuring you thrive, so together, we can leave a wake that changes lives on and off the water.

We are seeking a Purchasing Manager who will lead the Purchasing team with hands‑on management in all aspects of planning and sourcing materials, supplies, and services for the company while meeting established quality, cost, and delivery objectives. In this role, you will have the ability to shape and implement effective planning and purchasing processes and systems for Premier’s products while managing a high‑performing team and supporting supplier relationship management and risk mitigation.

The Purchasing Manager position manages a team of buyers responsible for the operational flow of items, including material acquisition, inventory reconciliation, and inventory phase‑out and obsolescence minimization, in addition to maintaining strategic relationships with all suppliers. The person in this role must be very comfortable meeting and working with co-workers across functional areas at all levels of the organization.

• Support material procurement and purchasing activities across all product categories.
• Manage and improve upon material planning and purchasing processes, system parameters, reporting, and supplier expectations to meet the sales requirements.
• Manage all aspects of the purchasing process of materials, establish priorities to meet customer orders, and drive improvements in PPV.
• Lead the team in proactively identifying and responding to product availability issues, conducting root‑cause analysis, and providing sustainable recovery solutions.
• Maintain accurate system planning parameters across all buyer assignments per established processes, including recommending process improvements to expand performance and efficiencies.
• Analyze forecast accuracy and other key supply chain factors such as BOM accuracy, order pipeline, stock outages, inventory turn, and supplier score cards to drive appropriate stocking levels and safety stock parameters.
• Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
• Leverage the EPICOR MRP system to drive buying decisions to support production requirements.

• Optimize material costs through vendor analysis: problem solve, identify, and implement cost savings initiatives surrounding product cost, damage return costs, transportation costs, and freight terms.
• Analyze safety stocks, manage material inventory, support demand planning, and provide backup coverage for other purchasing functions.
• Initiate total cost analysis to understand and balance inventory and replenishment requirements along with transportation, expediting, owned inventory, and warehousing expenses to enable an informed decision for Supply Chain leaders.
• Advanced knowledge of supplier end‑to‑end processes from raw material procurement to finished good production, as well as lead times associated.
• Support the development of EPICOR (ERP) systems and processes to optimize inventory replenishment and material availability to our manufacturing operations.
• Develop strategic relationships with key suppliers, create supplier agreements to define cost, delivery, and quality metrics.
• Drive sourcing and material performance improvements projects, in alignment with supply chain, manufacturing, and engineering requirements and strategic initiatives.
• Manage and report on key performance indicators for all critical suppliers.
• Drive collaboration with suppliers and internal customers.

• Provide…