Area Purchasing & Stores Manager

Georgia-Pacific's Wood Products Division is now hiring an Area Purchasing & Stores Manager!
This will be an on-site position, splitting time between our facilities in Camden, TX and Corrigan, TX
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As a part of our Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization, this role reports to the Plywood/Lumber Group Manager with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the mill managers. This position will manage local procurement and storeroom operations, as well as supervise personnel.

The ideal candidate has proven supervisory experience; has a record of creating value through building strong working relationships with a diverse group of customers; has demonstrated a principled entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to build a capability that delivers a supply chain with an optimized total cost of ownership to operations.

A successful candidate will have positive communication skills and approach, a strong desire to learn, and the ability to think outside the box! If you are organized, safety-oriented and have strong organizational, decision-making, and analytical skills, this may be the opportunity for you!

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support our facilities. The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.

• Ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, stores and environmental policies and procedures
• Develop strong partnerships internally and externally, aligning with strategic initiatives, commitments, and supply chain strategies
• Working with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business goals to deliver long-term value; demonstrate a high degree of Customer Focus and an ability to effectively influence others
• Ability to lead and effectively manage change based on the visions and initiatives we are working to achieve (GP, Business, Operations, and Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P)).
• Proactively collaborate and partner with key stakeholders, including Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and SS&P's Category, Sourcing and Inventory Management Teams.
• Leading, supervising, coaching, and mentoring employees
• Utilize critical thinking skills to identify, analyze, and execute on opportunities to streamline processes and achieve the lowest total cost of ownership on projects, storeroom inventory, and other purchases
• Sourcing, procuring, negotiating, contracting, and managing inventory of equipment, MRO parts, services, and supplies as appropriate
• Working with requestors to understand requirements, specifications, and timing; conducting competitive bidding process, including soliciting RFIs/RFPs and robust bid analysis & recommendations
• Managing and working to improve the procure-to-pay process (including invoice reconciliation management) and training internal customers on their roles in these processes as needed
• Ensure storerooms are disciplined, optimized, reliable, support defined asset strategies and are supported by corporate leadership and mill operation teams

• At least 3 years of purchasing, manufacturing operations or supply chain related experience
• Inventory or storeroom management experience, including experience with inventory management computer system
• Previous supervisory experience
• Experienced with Microsoft Office:
  Word, Excel, & Outlook

• Experience negotiating with local, regional or national contracts
• Demonstrated…