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Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

• Manages procurement of direct and indirect materials to support business requirements, including sourcing, negotiating costs, purchase order management, and inventory management.
• Assists with key procurement initiatives as directed by management.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plans all purchased parts within responsibility area and makes decisions to release, firm, cancel, or defer purchase orders based upon current inventory, demand, and capacity.
• Responsible for maintaining appropriate inventory levels to support production plan.
• Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity groups and/or supplier relationships.
• Attends and supports internal meetings and frequent Supply Chain Conference calls with partners and suppliers.
• Supports performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers.
• Utilizes lean sourcing principles (Kanban, consignment, and other similar material pull methods) to achieve 100% material availability and optimize on-hand inventory.
• Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier OTD, risk management, inventory velocity, and cost reduction).
• Leverages problem-solving skills to propose solutions to identified supply chain issues.
• Supports engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
• Leads quoting activity with suppliers to support supply chain optimizations.
• Invoice reconciliation.
• Creating manual purchase requisitions.
• Responsible handling of sensitive and confidential data required.
• Complies with all company, regulatory, environmental, and safety regulations.

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