Tactical Purchasing Manager

Tactical Purchasing Manager (Finance)

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for leading, developing and training a team of Buyers/Planners to achieve operational excellence in a highly regulated aerospace and defense environment. This role ensures full compliance with FAR/DFAR requirements, drives purchasing performance metrics and lead strategic supplier negotiations to support cost, quality, delivery and risk mitigation objectives. The Purchase Manager serves as a key link between Supply Chain, Program Management, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and Compliance to ensure mission critical material availability and contractual adherence.

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Buyer/Planners to achieve purchasing KPIs and program objectives
• Conduct purchasing and compliance training and regular performance reviews and metric based coaching
• Develop Purchasing budget, monitors, reports and mitigates risk to budget on a yearly and monthly basis to senior leadership
• Reviews Purchase Requisition s and Purchase Orders for FAR, DFAR's compliance, purchasing policy requirement and overall value.
• Lead negotiation strategies and support formal negotiations (Price, Delivery, scope, Terms & Conditions).
• Work closely with the Program and other functional groups (Operations, Quality, Engineering, Program Management, Contracts) to achieve business, financial and customer objectives
• Develops procurement strategy & takes responsibility for overall purchasing and strategic initiatives to build a competitive position
• Effectively serve as first point of escalation to resolve pricing, delivery and lead time challenges with suppliers in daily tier meetings
• Provide guidance on effective source selections to ensure compliant awards
• Own Purchasing performance metrics KPIs to effectively evaluate supplier performance, while maintaining supplier performance KPI and proactively working with supplier, towards continual improvement.
• Lead and manages key supplier Q  (Quarterly business reviews)
• Lead process improvement initiatives and proactively identify and implement solutions

YOU MUST HAVE

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status.

Must be eligible to obtain security clearance

• Eight (8)+ years of experience in purchasing and/or government procurement.
• Three (3)+ years' experience in Supply Chain Purchasing and/or Procurement leading people.
• Strong experience with use of ERP/MRP systems.
• Understanding of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR/DFARS)
• Strong understanding of purchasing contract terms and conditions & risk mitigation strategies.
• Proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and MRP systems.
• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by US export laws. In order to be eligible for this position, you must be a “US Person” under US export laws (or eligible for approval under a U.S. Government export license).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• Ability to develop sound relationships in internal and external stakeholders as well as supplier organizations.
• Strong communicator both orally and in writing
• Ability to present to senior leadership team internally and externally, such as Quarterly business vendor reviews, supplier escalations & vendor performance improvement strategies
• Requires approximately 10% travel for vendor interface, contract negotiations, and other business-related activities

• Bachelor's Degree
• Masters Degree in related field
• Experience in the aerospace and defense industry
• SAP experience is strongly preferred
• Experience in written contractual authorization/vehicles (Cost Plus, Firm Fixed Price, Time & Material etc.)
• Experience with procurement/subcontract compliance with Public Laws, Policies, Prime Contract Flow Downs, ITAR and import/export requirements, and the situational applicability.

The annual base salary range for this position is in the state of California is…