Job Details
The Judge Group is seeking a Purchasing Manager in Sioux City, IA area! The qualified individual is responsible for oversight of the day to day purchasing ensuring all efforts are made in a timely manner.
Responsibilities:
- Assesses, suggests recommendations for, and develops a sourcing strategy and procedures for the implementing best practice standards
- Manages the daily operations to guarantee that the service and material requirements are met in as effective, efficient, timely, and ethical manner
- Offers oversight of all additive purchases in compliance with the procurement procedures and policies
- Identifies optimization potentials and formulates strategies that deliver the greatest total cost of ownership through continuous spend analysis
- Supports and contributes to cross functional initiatives, projects, and complete process designs
- Analyzes performance of suppliers and develops improvement actions
- Creates material groups and buying channels to effectively and efficiently classify and manage volume of sourcing
- Oversees instruction and training to personnel to provide direction as it relates to all policies and procedures
- Creates and upholds excellent working relationships cross functionally within the company as well as with external individuals
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree preferred
- 5+ years of experience
- Sourcing and procurement experience required (food processing, food manufacturing, are strongly preferred)
- Best practices and benchmarks knowledge in the procurement and sourcing area
- Ability to work collaboratively with external and internal individuals
- Strong time management and planning skills required
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Excellent communications skills.
- High proficiency level in Microsoft suite; strong ERP background (SAP highly preferred)