MRO Purchasing Manager: Strategic Sourcing & Inventory

MGP Ingredients; Atchison (KS); Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical benefits

Dental and vision

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Zusammenfassung

MGP Ingredients is seeking a senior MRO procurement leader to manage indirect materials, inventory control, and storeroom operations across the Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, and Operations teams in the Kansas region. You will develop sourcing strategies, monitor supplier performance, and implement enterprise standards to ensure reliability and cost-efficiency.

The role requires five years in MRO procurement with leadership experience, manufacturing familiarity, and strong ERP/CMMS/SAP

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering or a related field preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education, training and relevant experience may be considered.
• Five years of progressive experience in MRO procurement, industrial purchasing, materials management or storeroom operations, including at least two years of leadership or demonstrated lead responsibility.
• Manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of MRO materials, industrial equipment and maintenance operations.
• Proficiency with ERP and/or CMMS applications, purchase-to-pay processes and inventory controls; SAP experience preferred where applicable.
• Strong sourcing, negotiation, supplier management and analytical skills.
• Ability to analyze spend, inventory and performance data and translate findings into action.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving and cross-functional partnership skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and respond effectively to urgent operational needs.
• Professional certification through ISM, ASCM/APICS or a similar organization preferred.

Aufgaben

• Lead the purchasing of indirect MRO materials, parts, equipment, repairs, and services within delegated authority and company policy.
• Develop sourcing strategies; solicit and evaluate quotations; negotiate commercial terms; and select suppliers based on total value, quality, service, delivery, safety, and risk.
• Review requisitions and purchase orders for accuracy, approvals, specifications, contract requirements, and appropriate sourcing practices.
• Coordinate urgent and critical purchases and establish contingency sources to minimize production and maintenance disruption.
• Establish inventory controls and business-unit stocking strategies aligned with equipment criticality, preventive and predictive maintenance plans, lead time, failure risk, replacement availability, and operational impact.
• Manage cycle counts, annual inventories, reconciliation, inventory optimization, and excess and obsolete inventory reviews.
• Ensure storerooms are secure, organized, labeled, and maintained in accordance with safety and housekeeping standards.
• Establish common item-naming, classification, unit-of-measure, manufacturer-part-number, storage-location, and approved-source standards.
• Identify duplicate items and opportunities to standardize materials across equipment, departments, and business units.
• Approve or govern new-item creation and changes to minimum, maximum, reorder-point, safety-stock, and criticality settings.
• Establish and periodically review critical-spare designations based on equipment criticality, lead time, failure risk, replacement availability, and operational impact.
• Develop mitigation plans for long-lead, obsolete, single-source, and high-risk materials.
• Monitor supplier performance for safety, quality, delivery, responsiveness, cost, and compliance; address deficiencies and elevate material risks.
• Identify and document savings, cost avoidance, standardization, repair-versus-replace, warranty, and vendor-managed inventory opportunities.
• Partner with enterprise Procurement on contracts, preferred suppliers, competitive bids, category strategies, and cross-business-unit sourcing opportunities.
• Coordinate with Safety, Quality, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and Procurement, as applicable, to ensure suppliers and service providers meet technical, commercial, insurance, safety, quality, and compliance requirements.
• Ensure contractors and service suppliers satisfy applicable site-access, safety, insurance, and documentation requirements before work begins.
• Establish controls for repairable assets, including repair history, warranty tracking, turnaround time, repair-versus-replace analysis, and final disposition.
• Maintain purchasing and inventory procedures, segregation of duties, delegated authority, approval controls, and audit-ready records.
• Maintain effective ERP and/or CMMS processes and data quality for items, suppliers, purchase orders, receipts, inventory transactions, and equipment applicability.
• Establish controls for item creation, item-master changes, approved sources, stocking levels, and purchasing transactions.
• Track and report applicable MRO performance measures, including: Inventory accuracy, Stockout frequency, Critical-spare availability, Inventory value and turns, Excess and obsolete inventory, Emergency-purchase activity, Supplier on-time delivery, Open purchase-order aging, Purchase requisition-to-order cycle time, Invoice and receiving discrepancies, Documented savings and cost avoidance, Repairable-asset turnaround time, Resolve receiving, invoice, purchase-order, and supplier-payment discrepancies.
• Support internal and external audits and implement corrective actions.
• Partner with Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and other functions to forecast preventive and corrective maintenance, shutdowns, planned outages, capital work, recurring demand, and emergency requirements.
• Confirm specifications, material requirements, lead times, delivery dates, staging plans, and contingency sources for maintenance events and projects.
• Communicate supply constraints, obsolescence concerns, long-lead or single-source risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Participate in equipment and material specification discussions and recommend standardization and lifecycle-cost opportunities.
• Align MRO inventory and purchasing strategies with preventive and predictive maintenance requirements.
• Select, train, coach, and evaluate assigned employees; establish priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Cross-train team members and ensure adequate coverage for purchasing, receiving, inventory, and storeroom activities.
• Implement and sustain enterprise MRO purchasing, inventory, data, controls, reporting, and supplier-management standards while adapting execution to assigned business-unit needs.
• Lead continuous-improvement efforts that improve material availability, internal service, cost, safety, controls, data quality, and process consistency.
• Promote compliance with established purchasing, inventory, supplier, and system procedures.

Kenntnisse

MRO procurement

ERP/CMMS

Supplier management

Inventory controls

Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain/related field

Tools

SAP

CMMS

ERP systems

Jobbeschreibung

MGP Ingredients is seeking a senior MRO procurement leader to manage indirect materials, inventory control, and storeroom operations across the Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, and Operations teams in the Kansas region. You will develop sourcing strategies, monitor supplier performance, and implement enterprise standards to ensure reliability and cost-efficiency.

The role requires five years in MRO procurement with leadership experience, manufacturing familiarity, and strong ERP/CMMS/SAP