Supply Chain Manager

Role Scope: Purchasing, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Management, Inventory Control, Warehouse & Logistics Oversight

Location: PTI Tech, Clifton, NJ

Date: 9/17/2026

Manage PTI's purchasing, supplier, inventory, warehouse, and logistics functions to ensure material availability, competitive total cost, accurate inventory, compliant shipments, and reliable support of production and customer requirements. This is a hands‑on management role that directly owns strategic purchasing and supplier negotiations while managing warehouse execution through the Warehouse Supervisor.

Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation Focused
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Uses competition, market data, total cost, supplier relationships, and sound commercial judgment to improve pricing, terms, freight, and supply security.

Uses system demand, open orders, usage, lead times, and inventory data to drive purchasing and challenges data that does not make operational sense.

Manufacturing Materials Knowledgeable
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Understands plastics/resins, metal feedstock and powders, components, packaging, and outsourced manufacturing processes.

Holds suppliers accountable for cost, quality, delivery, capacity, documentation, and continuity while proactively addressing supply risk.

Operational Leader & Problem Solver
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Manages through the Warehouse Supervisor, works cross‑functionally, and takes ownership of execution, accuracy, organization, and follow‑through.

Purchasing, Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management

• Own the majority of PTI purchasing for raw materials, plastics/resins, metal feedstock and powders, components, packaging, production supplies, and outside services; directly manage or review purchases exceeding $1,000 unless otherwise delegated.
• Obtain competitive quotations and verify best practical overall value before commitment, considering price, quality, lead time, freight, payment terms, reliability, and total cost rather than unit price alone.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, minimum order quantities, lead times, freight terms, vendor agreements, and longer‑term commercial arrangements within approved authority, escalating material contractual or financial commitments when required.
• Source, qualify, develop, and manage suppliers using performance data for cost, quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, certifications, and corrective actions; maintain strategic partnerships with critical vendors and practical continuity plans for high‑risk supply.
• Manage secondary and outsourced‑process suppliers and coordinate with Quality on certifications, nonconformances, corrective actions, and approved supplier requirements.
• Support new and existing program quoting by obtaining current material, component, freight, tooling-related, and outside-service costs, and work with Engineering and Quality to qualify alternate materials or suppliers when appropriate.
• Use ERP/MRP demand, open orders, production schedules, usage, lead times, safety requirements, and inventory levels to determine purchasing timing and quantities; investigate unusual system recommendations before placing significant orders.
• Maintain accurate supplier, pricing, lead‑time, minimum/order‑multiple, and other purchasing master data required for reliable MRP output and purchasing decisions.
• Own inventory‑control strategy, including ABC classifications, cycle‑count frequency and completion, and month‑end or critical close counts when required by Finance.
• Investigate significant or recurring inventory and material‑usage discrepancies with Warehouse, Production, Finance, and other affected functions and correct the underlying transaction, process, or master‑data issue.
• Analyze inventory turns, days on hand, slow‑moving, excess, and obsolete inventory…