Procurement Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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📋 Description

• Lead the procurement department, including buyer assignments, workload management, performance, hiring, training, and development. • Develop and execute sourcing strategies supporting current production requirements and long-term growth. • Evaluate supplier capacity and qualify additional or alternate sources to reduce supply risk. • Consolidate supplier spend and implement blanket orders, long-term agreements, kanban, and vendor-managed inventory. • Negotiate supplier pricing, lead times, payment terms, capacity commitments, and commercial and contractual terms. • Manage supplier contracts, renewals, compliance, pricing changes, and long-term agreements. • Identify, qualify, and onboard suppliers with Quality and Engineering. • Monitor supplier delivery, quality, cost, and commercial performance and drive corrective actions. • Develop supply chain risk mitigation plans for single-source suppliers, long-lead components, supplier financial health, and geographic concentration. • Own procurement cost performance and track savings. • Establish and report procurement and supplier performance metrics. • Maintain purchasing and supplier data in ERP systems and support material planning and shortage resolution. • Represent Procurement in cross-functional planning, program review, and executive meetings.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant education and experience. • 5+ years of experience directly managing a procurement department or buyer team. • Demonstrated experience scaling procurement operations and managing supplier capacity, consolidation, and purchasing efficiency. • Experience within a low-volume, high-mix, high-complexity manufacturing environment such as medical capital equipment, semiconductor equipment, aerospace, or defense. • Strong contract negotiation experience covering pricing, lead times, capacity commitments, and commercial terms. • Working knowledge of regulated quality systems, such as ISO 13485 or FDA 21 CFR Part 820. • Hands-on ERP and MRP experience, including purchase order management, lead-time maintenance, material planning, and shortage reporting. • Strong data analysis skills with the ability to evaluate spend, supplier delivery, cost, and performance metrics. • Ability to translate production demand into material requirements, procurement workload, and supplier capacity needs. • Strong leadership, communication, organizational, negotiation, and decision-making skills. • Ability to effectively manage changing and multiple priorities. • Experience implementing blanket orders, vendor-managed inventory, or supplier kanban programs. • Experience developing procurement or supply chain reports and dashboards. • Formal problem-solving training or certification such as A3, 8D, or Six Sigma. • Professional certification such as CPSM, CPM, or APICS CSCP. • Experience participating in SIOP or S&OP processes. • Experience sourcing engineered-to-order assemblies, machined structures, and long-lead capital components. • Mandaring speaking is not necessary, but certainly a plus!

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