Purchasing Supervisor

Responsibilities

Max Linear is seeking a Purchasing Supervisor to join our team. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Review purchase requisitions, ensuring price, description, vendor, and approval routing are correct
• Issue, monitor, and maintain purchase orders (POs), and provide updates, follow-up, and assist in receiving and invoice issues
• Research hard-to-find materials and find options for parts with long lead times
• Ensure credit card orders are best value with appropriate approvals and accounted for properly with sufficient documentation; provide monthly reconciliation to invoices
• Lead Purchasing staff in daily tasks and provide training and mentoring
• Conduct data analysis and provide reports to Accounting and Finance
• Provide guidance and recommendation on handling of purchases based on amount, category, currency, entity, country, and any non-standard requirements
• Train others on the purchasing process and proper documentation; maintain current training materials
• Provide documentation and information requested by auditors
• Initiate and collaborate on process improvement to streamline purchasing
• Handle urgent changes and occasional communication with foreign entities in different time zones

• Experience in purchasing, managing full requisition process, and sourcing a range of materials
• Familiar with purchasing process and able to detect anomalies and investigate timely
• Supervisory experience, providing guidance for career growth and development
• Good communication skills with all levels of company’s stakeholders and external contacts
• Experience in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, maintaining details and accuracy
• Advanced Excel and experience using ERP systems and Microsoft Office
• Bachelors in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or related +6 years of experience, or Masters +5 years of experience

Max Linear has a Total Compensation philosophy which includes base salary and annual discretionary bonus eligibility and many positions also include stock-based compensation.

Max Linear's good faith estimate starting base salary range is: $70,000 to $86,000

Annually

We offer competitive benefits designed to support employee health, welfare, and retirement and some highlights are: health care benefits, 401k savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and paid time off.

The actual starting base salary will be determined by the match to certain role-related criteria such as educational degree(s) or equivalent, relevant work experience, skillset needed for the role, and geographic location; this is not an all-inclusive list as some roles may require unique skills or experience.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Max Linear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

Max Linear began by developing the world’s first…