Procurement & Logistics Manager
Full Time
APPLY NOWPosted on 21 January 2025
The Procurement & Logistics Manager holds full ownership of Purchase Orders (domestic, import, subcontract), manages key procurement reports, and oversees logistics operations. This role ensures adherence to departmental policies and procedures, leads procurement initiatives, and collaborates with key managers across the organization. The Procurement & Logistics Manager supervises a team of direct reports, driving team engagement, training, and department morale.
This role is expected to work 2 to 6 hours extra every week during after-hours servicing our Taiwan team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Purchase Order Management: Full responsibility for all domestic, import, and subcontract POs, including approvals up to $10,000.
- Reporting: Maintain Open PO and ME5A reports, ensuring accuracy and up-to-date information.
- Logistics Oversight: Manage import logistics and domestic transit, ensuring on-time deliveries and smooth operations.
- Process Control: Ensure accurate monitoring of Purchase Requisitions, Exceptions, PO lines, and Confirmations to meet operational needs.
- Procurement Projects: Lead procurement-related projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and efficiency in processes.
- Collaboration: Work closely with key managers (Sourcing, Sales, Operations, and Finance) to align procurement strategies with overall company objectives.
- Cost Reduction Initiatives: Drive resourcing initiatives to reduce costs across all materials and warehouse supplies.
- Blue Ridge Program: Ensure the seamless operation of the Blue Ridge program, addressing issues proactively.
- Wrike Project Management: Set up and monitor projects in Wrike, ensure department forms are kept organized, and data is well maintained.
- Vendor Relations: Maintain vendor scorecards, resolve quality/quantity disputes, and conduct quarterly onsite audits.
- Compliance and Audits: Take the lead on the department ISO audit and ensure compliance with internal policies and procedures.
- Team Leadership: Advocate for department and company proficiency, manage training, and keep the team engaged while monitoring morale.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree, APICS certification, or 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Proficiency in SAP, Excel, and Wrike.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Effective communicator with a detail-oriented approach.
Business Management:
- Knows own span of control and decisions appropriate to position
- Has full knowledge/understanding of situations, including timing
- Understands and utilizes various decision-making processes
- Obtains necessary input from others
- Communicates rationale for decisions
- May not enter into a service agreement without prior consent of Directors or President of Fast-Rite International, Inc.
DISCLAIMER
This job description indicates in general terms, the type and level of work performed as well as
the typical responsibilities of employees in this classification. The duties described are not to be
interpreted as being all-inclusive to any specific employee. Management reserves the rights to
add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make
reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of
the job. Nothing in this position description changes the at-will employment relationship existing
between the Institution and its employees.
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