Purchasing Manager

Palm Harbor Homes - Seguin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Seguin, TX

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Purchasing Manager plays a crucial role in the procurement and purchasing team, ensuring that production materials are sourced at the lowest cost while maintaining quality standards and timely delivery to meet production schedules. This position involves coordinating with corporate procurement and managing local and regional suppliers to optimize the supply chain. The Purchasing Manager supervises purchasing agents and is responsible for the execution and continuous improvement of purchasing processes, including documentation, quality assurance, and team development.

Responsibilities

• Reviews requisitions.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Selects products for purchase by testing, observing, or examining items.
• Leads, coaches, mentors, and trains staff.
• Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
• Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid.
• Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality assurance personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
• Approves invoices for payment.
• Verifies specifications of purchase requests.
• Counts inventory items to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.
• Prepares purchase orders and sends to supplier and department originating request.
• Computes total cost of items purchased.
• Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
• Verifies bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves bills for payment.
• Expedites delivery of goods to users.
• Meets production requirements on a daily basis while controlling inventory levels with various lead times.
• Assists heavily with periodic plant inventory.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• At least 5 - 8 years of work experience in purchasing and/or costing.
• Effective time management skills.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task.
• Demonstrate a good work ethic based on principles of honesty and integrity.
• Experience with Microsoft Office.