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    Purchasing Manager - Novi, United States - Brightpath Associates LLC

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    Description

    The Purchasing Manager oversees a team of buyers and collaborates across the organization to enhance buyer expertise, formulate strategies for each category, establish and uphold relationships with key vendors, enhance operational workflows, and fulfills the organization's goals and objectives.

    Essential Duties:

    • Provide guidance, establish direction, give feedback, and create opportunities for development to a team of Buyers.
    • Function as an escalation point for issues that arise within the area of responsibility.
    • Build and maintain long term strategic relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, innovation, and reliability.
    • Research and identify new vendor relationships and establish new vendor contracts.
    • Lead negotiation efforts with strategic vendor contracts while staying focused on quality, cost, deliverables and process improvement.
    • Streamline purchasing process in collaboration with other Leaders and departments.
    • Initiate, develop and execute category level purchasing strategy to drive growth within area of responsibility.
    • Understand market trends and best practices. Stay abreast of relevant economic, industry, and business conditions within area of responsibility.
    • Drive to achieve Sales, Margin and Inventory goals.

    REQUIREMENTS

    Education/Experience:

    • Minimum of 10 years of purchasing experience preferably within the food industry.
    • 5+ years of direct leadership experience.
    • Bachelors Degree preferred.

    Ability to:

    • Lead and develop a group of buyers
    • Lead in a fast-paced environment
    • Ability to work under pressure of multiple projects and deadlines, sometimes with conflicting requirements
    • Effectively prioritize workload and adapt quickly to changes in direction and priority
    • Develop sound business process
    • Develop and maintain solid business relationships internally and externally
    • Travel up to 15% to vendors, customers and tradeshows

    Demonstrated Skills:

    • Proven leadership skills
    • Mastery of the buyer role
    • Exceptional communication skills
    • Ability to think and lead strategically
    • A strong sense of urgency and a proactive problem-solver
    • Dedicated, passionate, fun, organized and willing to get the job done
    • Detail oriented
    • Solid negotiating skills
    • Strong relationship building skills
    • Strong learning agility
    • Strong technical/system skills ERP, Excel
    • In touch with Industry trends/knowledge

    You'll have the following benefits and perks:

    • Medical insurance
    • Dental insurance
    • Vision care insurance
    • Group life & voluntary life insurance
    • 401(k) savings plan
    • Flexible savings plan
    • Short-term & long-term disability
    • PTO & PTO buy up
    • Tuition reimbursement
    • Wellness reimbursement

    Exempt vs Non-exempt: Salary (exempt)

    Employment Status: Full time

    Work environment:

    Works in a temperature-controlled office environment.

    This job requires the ability to perform duties contained in the job description for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made to fulfill these requirements.

    The above statements generally describe the principal and essential functions of the job but should not be construed as a detailed description of all essential functions that may be inherent in the jo


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