Purchasing & Customer Service Manager

Pocket Nurse; Farmington Hills (MI); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions

Paid time off and holidays

On-site fitness center

Casual dress code

Job summary

Pocket Nurse in Farmington Hills, MI is hiring a Purchasing and Customer Service Manager to oversee procurement and customer service teams.

The role includes developing purchasing strategies, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring exceptional service delivery to customers. Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field along with strong analytical and negotiation skills.

Benefits include competitive wages, medical coverage, 401(k), paid time off, and a hybrid work schedule.

Qualifications

• 4 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven collaboration and negotiation skills with vendors.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Purchasing, Customer Service, and White Glove Delivery teams.
• Develop and execute purchasing strategies with vendors.
• Manage vendor relationships and improve customer service performance.

Skills

Vendor management

Inventory/supply chain management

Contract negotiation

Customer service principles

Microsoft Excel (advanced)

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field

Tools

ERP/CRM software

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: DiaMedical Location - Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Job Title: Purchasing and Customer Service Manager. Department: Purchasing. Reports To: Director of Operations. FLSA Status: Exempt.

About DiaMedical USA

DiaMedical USA is a fast‑growing medical equipment distributor looking to add a Purchasing and Customer Service Manager to our team in Farmington Hills, MI. Our mission is to improve quality healthcare by acting as a turnkey solution for healthcare facilities and educational institutions, allowing clinicians and instructors to prioritize patient care. As one of the largest healthcare and education equipment providers in the country, we simplify the purchasing process and operate as a single source supplier of over 1,500 manufacturers.

Role Overview

The Purchasing and Customer Service Manager oversees the Purchasing, Customer Service, and White Glove Delivery teams, driving continuous improvement in service levels. The role creates and manages purchasing strategies that utilize appropriate vendors for sourcing goods and services while maximizing product margins and balancing customer satisfaction. It also leads the Customer Service team to ensure exceptional service to our customers.

Key Responsibilities and Other Duties

Purchasing Oversight

• Develops and executes purchasing strategies ensuring pricing, terms, delivery, and compliance are met.
• Supports in‑house installation projects to ensure proper scheduling and timely deliveries are completed with outstanding customer service.
• Manages vendor relationships, conducts business reviews, and holds vendors accountable for mutual business goals.
• Evaluates product offerings and promotions based on vendor input, trends and margin analysis.
• Ensures accurate vendor selection and communicates pricing updates across teams.
• Collaborates with Warehouse Manager to ensure product availability, short supply situations and allocation processes are executed properly.
• Researches product substitutions for functional comparability, quality, cost and availability.
• Identifies and corrects issues related to orders including pricing (COGS), due dates, delivery, and quality by alerting vendors of problems or discrepancies.
• Provides reports on sales forecasting for estimated ship dates, vendor performance, and ad hoc requests.
• Partners with Marketing to ensure complete and accurate product information.

Customer Service Oversight

• Analyzes customer feedback and data to assess and improve customer service performance.
• Develops and implements standards, guidelines, and metrics to monitor performance and to identify areas of improvement and coaching strategies.
• Resolves escalated customer issues and recommends cross‑functional improvements.
• Ensures Customer Service has up‑to‑date information to support customers effectively.
• Oversees the White Glove Delivery process to ensure timely and successful installations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Oversees Purchasing Agents, Customer Service Representatives, and White Glove Service Coordinator.
• Responsible for team’s schedules, time management, performance management and career development.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Economics or a related field and 4 years of related, progressive experience, or equivalent of 8 years combination of education and experience.

Skills and Experience

• Experience with vendor management, inventory/supply chain, and portfolio management.
• Proven collaboration and contract negotiation skills with vendors at all levels.
• Knowledge of inventory management system and ERP/CRM software.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing excellent customer service including customer needs assessment, quality standards, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, including advanced proficiency in Excel with pivot tables and VLOOKUP.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to analyze problems or opportunities and develop solutions.
• Quality driven individual with attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Benefits and Compensation

• Competitive wages.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage options.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions.
• Paid time off, personal time, paid holidays, and hybrid onsite/remote work schedule.
• Company‑paid life insurance.
• Voluntary life, disability, accident, and critical illness insurance options.
• On‑site fitness center.
• Casual dress code.
• The opportunity to make a difference in the ever‑growing healthcare field.

Physical and Cognitive Demands

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. For Americans with Disabilities Act purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case‑by‑case basis to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit; talk; hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. No employee is authorized to lift weight over 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This role requires the individual to understand, remember, apply and communicate complex information and problems, opposing points of view on complex issues and collaborate and explore alternative solutions; organize and prioritize thoughts, ideas, and own work schedule, and oversee work schedules of others; apply common sense, analyze and make decisions which have significant impact on the immediate work unit and monitor impact outside immediate work unit; express written and spoken word for internal and external communications and compose materials such as detailed reports, forms, letters, manuals, presentations, etc. and communicate information; compute, analyze, and interpret complex statistical data for reporting purposes; and use basic mathematical skills including ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide and to record, balance, and check results for accuracy.

Equal Opportunity Employer

DiaMedical is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Information is available here: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf