Senior Manager, Procurement

Baxter Healthcare; Tijuana; Presencial; MXN 50,000 - 90,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An established industry player is seeking a Procurement Manager who will play a crucial role in developing purchasing strategies and managing supplier relations. This position offers the opportunity to lead a dedicated team, ensuring that all procurement processes align with quality standards and corporate goals. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of supply chain management, making significant contributions to the company's mission of improving patient outcomes worldwide. Join a collaborative environment where your expertise will directly impact lives and drive continuous improvement.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience in supply chain and purchasing processes.
• Proficiency in ERP/MRP systems with a focus on SAP.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain purchasing strategies and manage daily activities.
• Negotiate contracts and maintain supplier relationships.
• Ensure quality standards for procured materials are met.

Conocimientos

Supply Chain Management

Negotiation Skills

Leadership

Inventory Management

Microsoft Office Proficiency

ERP/MRP Systems

English Proficiency

Educación

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management

Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing

Herramientas

SAP

Purchasing Software

Descripción del empleo

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter

Procurement Manager responsibilities include developing purchasing strategies; maintaining positive relationships with suppliers, coordinating with internal teams regarding their supply and services needs for the site and overseeing the purchasing team in their daily activities, manager must be able to manage and optimize purchasing activities and processes, must have excellent leadership abilities, should be able to track trends of main site KPI’s and track internal metrics to manage standards/process that can accomplish goals stablished by corporate and site management.

The role of the manager also must be a mentor & coaching for the purchasing staff; to be key contributor to the development of the team

What you'll be doing

• Develop and maintain purchasing strategies, managing daily purchasing activities, supervising staff and allocating tasks; keep follow up to internal metrics and ensure that these metrics be achieved into goal stablished.

• Manage supplier relations , negotiating contracts, prices, timelines; Maintain the supplier database, purchase records and related documenation.

• Coordinate with inventory control and purchasing teams to determine and manage inventory needs, keep healthy inventory levels to meet DIOH and Inventory turns into goal.

• Ensure that all procured raw materials meet the required quality standards and specifications; Ensure that daily activities are executed based in procedures documented; Ensure that all the team is completing all training assigned in their purchasing profile.

• Prepare cost estimates and managing budgets; mainly, Inventory projections & PPV Budgets.

• Working to improve purchasing systems and processes; keep a culture of continue improvement; working with the team to identify opportunities in the process and active an action plan to improve it.

• Keep updated the dashboard with internal metrics to follow up trends and audit performance of each buyer.

• Supervise the activities to manage and control purchase of services and MRO’s required by the operation in the site.

• Maintain good communication internally and externally, keeping effective channels and meetings with members of the team, other departments and external member of the organization, as well suppliers.

• Participate in meetings and forums with managers staff to follow up performance of the plant; status of metrics, escalate critical issues and inform about potential risk in the supply process.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing or equivalent.

• Five years or more of experience in supply chain process, manufacturing process; experience supervising teams focused in supply chain (Purchasing process), deep knowledge of inventory and supply chain management; proficiency in purchasing software and systems (ERP/MRP).

• Proficient use of Microsoft tools; good understanding of modern ERP/MRP platforms such as SAP.

• Advance level of English.

• Flexibility and adaptability to changing priorities and assignments; ability to maintain confidentiality; work with the vast array of information gathered during variety of processes and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information.

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