Georgia-Pacific - Fletcher, OK
posted 3 months ago
As an Area Purchasing Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, stores, and environmental policies and procedures. Your primary responsibility will be to proactively collaborate and partner with key stakeholders, including Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and the Sourcing and Inventory Management Teams. This position requires you to utilize your critical thinking skills to identify, analyze, and execute opportunities to streamline processes, ultimately achieving the lowest total cost of ownership on projects, storeroom inventory, and other purchases. In this role, you will oversee and validate that storerooms and inventory processes are disciplined, optimized, and reliable. You will ensure that these processes support defined asset strategies and are backed by corporate leadership and facility operation teams. Additionally, you will manage and work to improve the procure-to-pay process, which includes invoice reconciliation management, and provide training to internal customers on their roles in these processes as needed. Collaboration is key in this position, as you will work closely with cross-functional teams at both the facility and headquarters to implement best practices and corporate initiatives. Your ability to foster strong relationships and communicate effectively will be essential to your success in this role.