Purchasing & Planning Manager

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United States - Cedar Rapids, IAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 2 Days Agojob requisition :
R56519
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The Purchasing & Planning Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing all activities within the Purchasing/Planning department. This role manages team priorities, workflows, schedules, and plays a key part in talent acquisition, development, and succession planning.  The manager collaborates across departments to identify material and equipment needs, assesses current and future material availability, and integrates industry best practices to optimize procurement and planning processes.

The manager is accountable for departmental performance, driving innovation, resolving escalated supplier issues, and maintaining effective material scheduling strategies to support production requirements while minimizing costs and risks.  This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Production Operations
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** Purchasing & Planning Manager
** Job Profile:
** Production Manager
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** The Purchasing & Planning Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing all activities within the Purchasing/Planning department. This role manages team priorities, workflows, schedules, and plays a key part in talent acquisition, development, and succession planning.

The manager collaborates across departments to identify material and equipment needs, assesses current and future material availability, and integrates industry best practices to optimize procurement and planning processes. The manager is accountable for departmental performance, driving innovation, resolving escalated supplier issues, and maintaining effective material scheduling strategies to support production requirements while minimizing costs and risks.

This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Production Operations
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* Supervisory Responsibilities:

*** Manage team priorities and coordinate activities through structured workflows and scheduling.
* Lead in talent acquisition systems and processes, including recruitment activities and decisions on selections.
* Identify and nurture talent within the team for future leadership roles.
* Collaborate with the team to drive, develop, and execute innovation in our current products and solutions.
* Establish and communicate performance expectations.
* Identify performance gaps and monitor performance to ensure development plans are met.
* Ensure fair and equal treatment of employees, avoiding favoritism, addressing difficult issues (with assistance from Human Resources), and practices empathy and compassion.
* Promote Company policies, procedures, mission, and values by training and providing direction to direct reports in their use and application.
* Other duties as assigned.
** Duties/Responsibilities:
*** Managing inventory, ensuring data accuracy in Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems, and implementing process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams and leadership to identify needs and requirements for equipment, materials, products, and acceptable substitutions.
* Assesses current material availability; reasonably predicts future availability based on the market, delivery systems, and other variables.
* Prepares and presents current market conditions and integrates industry best practices to achieve best results.
* Resolves escalated grievances with vendors, contractors, and suppliers.
* Identify ideal suppliers based on quality, cost, and reliability.
* Analyze existing purchasing and planning processes for performance and implement improvements.
* Manage inventory and operational risk and ensure that contingency plans are in place.
* Oversee the functionality of the MRP system, ensuring data integrity and timely resolution of system-related issues.
* Ensure material scheduling strategies and processes are in place and functioning effectively to meet production requirements with minimum inventory levels and optimizing costs.
* Take ownership of material planning challenges, including over…