Purchasing Manager

Purchasing Manager contributes to the success of Eagle Flexible Packaging by leading and executing all procurement and purchasing functions with a strategic, proactive, and financially driven approach. This role ensures the timely, cost-effective, and quality-focused acquisition of raw materials and supplies required for manufacturing operations. The Purchasing Manager is responsible for developing and optimizing supply chain and inventory management processes, ensuring material availability while reducing excess and obsolete inventory.

This role leads, develops, and mentors the purchasing team, collaborates cross-functionally to support operational goals, and drives continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall supply chain performance.

• Lead, develop, and manage the purchasing team, including recruiting, training, coaching, performance management, and fostering a high-performing, accountable, and engaged team environment, ensuring retention and development of a team capable of consistently meeting departmental KPIs.
• Oversee daily purchasing operations, ensuring efficient workflows, clear prioritization, and alignment with production and organizational needs.
• Develop and execute sourcing and purchasing strategies that deliver optimal value, balancing cost, quality, service, and reliability of supply.
• Align purchasing strategies with organizational goals to rationalize the supply base, achieve cost reduction targets, and support long-term business objectives.
• Drive measurable cost savings initiatives across all purchasing categories through strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and process improvements, achieving or exceeding established cost reduction goals.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, proactively managing performance related to quality, delivery, responsiveness, and lead times, and resolving issues effectively, resulting in improved supplier performance and reduced purchasing lead times.
• Collaborate with Production Scheduling, Planning, Manufacturing, and Quality teams to ensure accurate forecasting, material availability, and alignment with production requirements, driving high internal customer satisfaction through timely and accurate material availability.
• Monitor and optimize inventory levels to support Just‑In‑Time (JIT) principles, reducing overall inventory value, minimizing aged and obsolete stock, and improving inventory turns, achieving or exceeding targets for aged inventory and total inventory value reduction.
• Maintain high internal customer satisfaction by ensuring materials are available accurately and on time to support production and operational needs, as measured through service levels and stakeholder feedback.
• Utilize ERP and MRP systems to manage purchasing activities, ensuring accurate data related to material costs, inventory levels, usage, and transactions.
• Improve and optimize use of MRP tools, including setting and managing appropriate stocking levels to prevent shortages while minimizing excess inventory, contributing to reduced excess and obsolete stock levels.
• Partner with IT and cross‑functional teams to enhance ERP functionality and implement tools that drive efficiency, visibility, and cost savings.
• Manage relationships and agreements with outsourced production and service partners, ensuring performance expectations and contractual obligations are met.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and applicable regulations related to procurement and purchasing activities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the purchasing function using Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and cost control, resulting in measurable improvements in purchasing performance metrics.
• Perform administrative and reporting functions required to support purchasing operations.
• Ensure that all company food safety and quality assurance procedures are followed at all times. Escalate any issues/concerns to management.
• Other related duties as assigned.

• High school degree or equivalent (GED).
• Minimum of 7 years of progressively…