Purchasing Manager

Jobtailor; Colorado; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a highly experienced Purchasing Program Manager to lead a small team across two US locations and drive supplier negotiations, sourcing, and MRP-driven purchasing activities. The role emphasizes cost reduction, supplier relationship management, and cross-location collaboration.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in purchasing program management, strong SQL skills, and proven project leadership in manufacturing environments with ERP systems such as Kinetic.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in procurement or business.
• 10+ years of experience in purchasing program management.
• 3 years experience in manufacturing related to capital equipment.
• 2+ years experience with SQL or similar database structures.
• Strong communication, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient with MS Office; strong Excel skills.
• Experience using Kinetic ERP system.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, development, mentoring for purchasing staff at two locations.
• Obtain best price, lead time, ordering quantities, shipping terms, and delivery.
• Resolve compliance and invoice discrepancies.
• Negotiate long-term supplier contracts and monitor performance.
• Monitor supplier performance and drive cost/quality improvements.
• Generate POs from MRPs and replenishment parameters to meet stock needs.
• Maintain accuracy of POs and pricing in the MRP system.
• Coordinate transportation and international shipping arrangements.
• Communicate delivery progress to procurement customers and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with capacity and aftermarket to meet inventory targets.
• Identify sources for new products and optimize existing ones.
• Develop global collaboration with Netherlands, China, and Latin America.

Skills

Procurement

Project management

SQL

Data analysis

Vendor negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in procurement or business

Tools

Kinetic ERP system

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, development, mentoring, and coaching for the purchasing employees (currently 4) at both the South Chesterfield, VA and Longmont, CO locations.
• Obtain the best price, lead time, ordering quantities, shipping terms, and delivery expectations. Aim to achieve cost reductions while maintaining or improving the quality of supplies and services while considering added values in the supply chain.
• Resolve compliance and invoice discrepancies.
• Identify the suppliers that are most important to the success of the company and negotiate long‑term contracts that set out prices, quality standards, cost‑reduction targets, delivery timescales, and commercial terms and conditions. Review suppliers’ annual performance metrics and develop plans for improvement if necessary.
• Monitor the performance of suppliers against contractual standards and work with them to achieve continuous improvements in costs and performance.
• Review and generate purchase orders based upon replenishment parameters derived from MRP, min‑max parameters, and manual purchase order creation to meet expectations of stock availability and orders shipped on time.
• Maintain accuracy of purchase orders and part file pricing/inventory within MRP to clearly communicate part availability and costs.
• Communicate defective or unacceptable products, services, equipment, and receipts with users, suppliers, or receiving to determine sources of problems and resolve disputes in an expedited manner.
• Negotiate and arrange the transport of goods with various means of carriers including international and expedited shipping.
• Resolve delivery discrepancies and maintain clear, timely communication to procurement customers (assembly, fabrication, aftermarket) on the progress of product deliveries. Monitor vendor return shelves and assembly return carts to reduce the turn rate.
• Evaluate and work closely with capacity and aftermarket players to maintain planning parameters to meet inventory expectations.
• Find sources and negotiate prices for new products and resource existing products when needed.
• The position needs to develop into a collaboration worldwide with our additional locations in the Netherlands, China, and Latin America.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) with a preferred field of study in either procurement or business.
• 10 Years of experience/skills related to Purchasing program management including the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• 3 years experience working in a manufacturing environment related to capital equipment construction.
• 2 Years (minimum) experience working with SQL or similar database structures (Access, dBase, Oracle, etc.).
• Demonstrated critical thinking, project management, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills in MS Office programs.
• Strong MS‑Excel skills for data management and analysis (pivot tables, lookups, filtering, etc.).
• Strong relationship skills with excellent time management and follow‑up skills.
• Must be self‑directed and detail oriented with an inquisitive nature and the desire to solve problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong work ethic with a positive, 'can‑do' attitude.
• Experience working with Kinetic ERP system.