Purchasing Manager

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Full Time Antigo, WI, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $97,572.80 To $ Annually

Job Title: Purchasing Manager

Reports to: Supply Chain Director

Job Summary

The Purchasing Manager leads, develops, and mentors the procurement team while establishing cross-functional policies and procedures. This role requires a high level of integrity, strong relationship-building skills, and broad experience in supply chain, contract review, negotiation, supplier qualification, and volume contract bidding. The position is responsible for mitigating supplier and service-related risk across Volm Companies and ensuring cost reductions through effective sourcing strategies.

The Purchasing Manager partners closely with the procurement team to drive cost savings, reduce inventory, strengthen supplier performance, and implement best practices in procurement and bidding processes.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Provide strong leadership, setting a positive example and fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Manage and develop a team, providing feedback, coaching, and guidance to support their growth and success.
• Set goals, plan work, and allocate tasks to ensure efficient utilization of resources and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Maintain open and effective communication channels within the team and with other stakeholders.
• Monitor team performance, provide timely feedback, and address performance issues as needed.
• Identify training and development needs and support the professional growth of team members.
• Resolve conflicts and make informed decisions to drive success.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and regulations.
• Directs, mentors and trains procurement team to be the best that they can be in their roles offering the opportunity for cross-training, growth and development within the organization.
• Develops and maintains a strong professional partnership with key suppliers.
• Acts as the lead facilitator for issue resolution & provides superior customer service in all aspects of purchasing.
• Develop and maintain Vendor score card system on a regular basis
• Ensure the following are considered SOP by the purchasing team: PO entry, acknowledgment, follow up, inventory control and reduction, updating supplier contracts and promoting optimum system setup for best ordering practices.
• Capture and report savings thru bid process and negotiations utilizing volume contract bidding tools where appropriate to ensure savings are achieved for all of the Volm companies shared commodities.
• Researches products and services across departmental lines to consolidate and leverage spend to achieve best value (quality, service, and price) for VOLM. Taking into account total cost of ownership.
• Provide direction relative to New Product Development initiatives, ensuring complete data is provided to the plants for item setup in accordance SOP’s. Ensuring supplier contracts are created and updated in systems by team.
• Continue to source products, research, develop, audit, review capacity of new suppliers working toward building relationships, and obtain appropriate documentation such as COI-certificates of insurance and indemnification requirements based on supplier risk level.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts for the team and attend cross-functional meetings to improve processes across all Volm Companies.

Required

Skills and Abilities

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to plan, organize and oversee multiple projects and operations.
• Knowledge of purchasing, manufacturing, logistics and warehousing…