Procurement Lead

Salary Range: $70,000.00 To $80,000.00 Annually

As a key member of the Supply Chain team, the Procurement Lead manages day-to-day purchasing activities and helps ensure the timely, cost-effective availability of materials, packaging, and services required to support business operations. This hands‑on role leads supplier coordination, purchase order management, cost control, supply continuity, procurement reporting, and process improvement.

• Lead day-to-day purchasing and the full PO process, from creation and supplier confirmation through delivery tracking, changes and issue resolution.
• Partner with Production Planning to translate forecasts and production requirements into timely purchasing actions.
• Monitor lead times, order status, shortages and changes; proactively address and elevate significant supply, quality, pricing or delivery risks.
• Maintain accurate ERP purchasing parameters, supplier information, pricing and order updates.
• Build supplier relationships that support reliable service, quality, communication and supply continuity.
• Monitor and review supplier performance, including OTIF, quality, responsiveness, lead times and order accuracy, and lead corrective actions when expectations are not met.
• Partner with Quality Assurance to resolve supplier complaints, non‑conformances, investigations and documentation requirements.

• Monitor material, packaging, freight and supplier costs; identify opportunities to improve purchasing value and support cost‑saving initiatives.
• Maintain accurate pricing and investigate purchase price variances with Finance and suppliers.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, supplier comparisons and order consolidation while balancing cost, quality, MOQs, lead times, inventory, freight and supplier performance.

• Identify and communicate potential shortages, delays, capacity constraints and supplier risks before they impact operations.
• Work with suppliers and internal stakeholders to resolve disruptions and support alternate supplier, onboarding and contingency planning for critical materials.

• Coordinate with Planning, Operations, Inventory Control and Warehouse teams to align purchasing with production schedules, inbound deliveries and inventory requirements.
• Support New Product Development through sourcing of new materials, trial quantities and supplier information.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory and Finance on compliance, pricing, accruals, reporting and issue resolution.

• Monitor procurement KPIs, including OTIF, purchase price variance, stockouts, lead times and supplier performance, using ERP data, Excel and Power BI to identify trends, exceptions and opportunities.
• Recommend and implement improvements to purchasing practices, controls, master data, workflows and documentation.
• Maintain accurate, accessible and audit‑ready purchasing, supplier, contract, food safety and traceability records.

• Own the day-to-day procurement function, including execution, controls and continuous improvement.
• Influence material availability, supplier performance, purchasing costs and operational continuity across the business.
• Independently prioritizes purchasing needs and resolves supplier and material issues.
• Balance cost, quality, service, inventory and operational risk when making purchasing decisions.
• Take ownership of issues through resolution and escalates matters requiring management, financial, quality or strategic approval.

• 4+ years of experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain, ideally within manufacturing, food & beverage, CPG, or another regulated…