Job Description
Position Summary The Director of Purchasing is responsible for leading the people, systems, and processes of procurement at Meiji America. The Director of Purchasing oversees the corporate ingredient and packaging spends, and acts as the Purchasing lead on key interdepartmental teams, product lifecycle management, and commodities risk management. Additionally, leads supplier selection, negotiations and qualifications at a corporate level. The Director of Purchasing is also responsible for effective material planning, including inventory strategies and execution at all sites and in all purchased component categories.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.
· Commodities. Commodities risk management, know the markets, make coverage decisions well time to the market.
· MRP leader. MRP heath and strong requirements planning, including PO signals.
· Inventory management and strategies. Balancing inventory carrying while reducing MRS.
· Financial. Manage the budget and projections for the department and PPV.
· Supplier Relationship management.
· RFPs.
· PPM. Product Lifecycle Management.
· Manage the Purchasing function and team personnel including recruitment, development, and leadership of a high performing purchasing staff.
· Strategic sourcing of all bills of material components utilizing progressive vendor relationship and pricing methods.
· Inventory planning strategies that balance adequate supply to production while avoiding obsolescence.
· Supplier identification, due diligence, and qualification.
· Manage vendor relationships and assist in building effective partnerships.
· Executes commodity strategies through bid and contract execution on flour, oils, and sweeteners.
· Discuss defective or unacceptable new goods or services with users, vendors and others to determine cause of problem and take corrective and preventative action.
· Execute Request for Quotes (RFQ’s) through a strategic spend calendar of events built around existing, historical, and /or customary contracting terms (timeline).
· Analyze market and delivery systems to assess present and future material availability.
· Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.
· Develop corporate materials planning models identifying all available tools, and methodologies streamlining the planning process into a systemic function monitored corporately for effectiveness
· Develop and maintain Supply Chain metrics in the Purchasing function including total savings identified and generated, contract balance management, and spend performance to standard cost.
· Set annual standard costs for all purchased bill of material components.
· Manage the financial aspects of the Purchasing function, including PPV projection and department expenses.
Supervisory Responsibilities The Director of Purchasing supervises a team of 4 buyers. 2 located in York and 2 located in Santa Ana, CA. as well as a Purchasing Manager.
Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· Leadership – Ability to lead and manage team/s to defined and expected outcomes.
· Good problem-solving skills.
· Strong interpersonal skills.
· Analytical skills.
· Mathematics aptitude.
· Packaging awareness and Knowledge Base – Knowledge of rigid and flexible packaging performance to include understanding of the artwork approval process and general familiarity of engineering in the field.
· Business Systems Expertise - Knowledge of integrated ERP systems. Understanding systemic relationships of forecasting, demand planning, MPS, MRP, Purchasing and Inventory Control.
· Negotiator – Ability to act as a ‘deal developer’ providing catalyst to development of a least cost supply chain
· Project Management – Ability to establish project goals and milestones, develop procedures and systems, define roles and responsibilities, identify and implement project resources, lead project coordination, monitor and measure project performance, manage multiple projects.
People Management - Motivating employees, defining roles and responsibilities, communicating with employees, delegating responsibility, creating a challenging environment, rewarding/recognizing employees, collaborative management, providing feedback and coaching, and providing clear developmental goals.
Communications – Skilled communicator understanding and utilizing all means of communication in appropriate and professional delivery.
Education and/or Experience - Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university and five to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, Flexible hours,