Plant Procurement Manager

About our client

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Job

Responsibilities:

• Deliver to performance of the procurement organization that includes productivity, supply performance, quality and localization
• Develop and manage localization supplier relationships and performance
• Drive material localization effort to achieve cost reduction and delivery service flexibility
• Executes the competitive bid, negotiation, and contracting processes for direct materials
• Collaborate with Design Engineering & Manufacturing teams to drive NPI project execution
• Acts as an escalation point for delivery and quality issues that cannot be resolved by direct material buyers and obtains favorable resolutions.
• Reports and implements key Supply Chain Metrics (STR--delivery, Commercial Productivity—cost reduction, DLPM--quality).
• Lead quarterly supplier scorecard review with commodity teams to drive supplier performance improvement in quality, delivery, and cost
• Develop and ready existing/new suppliers to achieve material, volume, location, capacity requirements. Ensures supplier audits are completed/passed, and strategizes with QA as required to improve and ensure supplier quality
• Work with Quality to ensure that monthly supplier performance during NPI phase. In addition, that supplier issues are being resolved before introduction. Engages commodity managers if required.
• Communicate with Sales and Design Engineering to ensure new and existing materials reduce company’s overall risk exposure in the supply chain.
• Ensures direct materials are sourced in full compliance with policies and guidelines.
• Enforce company and functional processes, policies and safety regulations, discipline as necessary
• Oversee and delegate workloads of employees, ensure projects, and assignments achieve goals/targets
• Monitor and evaluate performance of employees, personnel requirements, selection, training
• Develop, coach and build a highly performing and engaged team
• Instill global mindset with strategic thinking in the organization
• Act as a change agent to challenge status quo if needed

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain or Engineering discipline required
• 10+ years of experience in advanced procurement. Experience in supply chain management is preferred.
• 5+ years of management experience
• Global exposure in previous roles is required
• Graduate degree in business (i.e. MBA) is preferred