Purchasing Manager

Drylock Technologies USA; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Drylock Technologies USA in Eau Claire, WI is seeking a hands-on Purchasing Manager to guide a team and drive strategic supplier support, purchasing execution, and disciplined inventory for over $100 million in raw materials.

You will partner with corporate sourcing, lead local procurement, and elevate maintenance and operations service levels in a true player-coach leadership role.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of experience in manufacturing purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, storeroom, inventory, or plant operations.
• Experience leading or supporting purchasing teams, supplier follow-up, PO execution, expediting, and internal customer service.
• Strong understanding of MRO inventory, min/max planning, cycle counts, ERP/MRP transaction discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the purchasing team supporting corporately sourced raw materials and related purchasing activity.
• Local purchasing execution: POs, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, expediting, issue resolution, internal customer service.
• Partner with corporate sourcing to align plant needs, raw material requirements, supplier communication, and purchasing priorities.
• MRO parts room leadership: improve organization, accountability, service expectations, transaction discipline, labeling, storage, follow-through.
• Strengthen parts availability, inventory accuracy, min/max, cycle counts, replenishment discipline, and inventory control.

Skills

Purchasing leadership

Supplier follow-up

ERP/MRP proficiency

Inventory management

MRO expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SAP

Job description

Are you a hands-on purchasing, materials, MRO, or parts room leader who can balance strategic supplier support, purchasing execution, inventory discipline, and plant service needs in a fast-paced manufacturing environment?

Drylock Technologies in Eau Claire, WI is looking for a Purchasing Manager to support purchasing activity tied to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials, while also leading local purchasing follow-through, MRO inventory performance, parts room organization, and maintenance service levels. This is an on-site role in Eau Claire Wisconsin.

This is a true player-coach leadership role—ideal for someone who can partner with corporate sourcing, lead a purchasing team, improve supplier and order follow-through, stabilize the parts room, and stay close enough to the work to remove barriers for maintenance, production, and operations.

Relocation assistance available for the right candidate. This role does not support sponsorship of any kind.

Why This Role Mat

tersThis role sits at the intersection of purchasing, materials support, and plant execution. The position supports purchasing activity connected to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials through the purchasing team, while also taking on a meaningful MRO and parts room improvement challenge. The successful leader will help bring more structure, accuracy, ownership, and service discipline to a busy parts room environment that directly impacts maintenance readiness, downtime response, and production supp

• ort.Support the purchasing team responsible for corporately sourced raw mater
• ialsPartner with corporate sourcing, suppliers, operations, maintenance, and production to keep materials, parts, and services mo
• vingImprove purchasing follow-through, order discipline, delivery visibility, supplier responsiveness, and escalation proce
• ssesStabilize and improve the MRO parts room as a key operational priority, including creating better organization, clearer ownership, stronger inventory discipline, and more reliable support for maintenance and produc
• tionStrengthen parts availability, inventory accuracy, storage organization, and service expectations for maintenance and production sup

port

What You’

• ll OwnLeadership of the purchasing team supporting corporately sourced raw materials and related purchasing ac
• tivityLocal purchasing execution, including purchase orders, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, expediting, issue resolution, and internal customer s
• upportPartnership with corporate sourcing to align plant needs, raw material requirements, supplier communication, and purchasing prio
• ritiesMRO parts room leadership, including improving organization, accountability, service expectations, transaction discipline, labeling, storage practices, follow-through, and day-to-day issue reso
• lutionMRO inventory strategy, including addressing excess, obsolete, hard-to-find, duplicated, or poorly classified parts while strengthening critical spares, min/max levels, cycle counts, replenishment discipline, and inventory ac
• curacyParts availability and responsiveness to maintenance work orders, urgent repairs, planned shutdowns, and production support
• needsDaily leadership of buyers and parts room team members with clear expectations, coaching, communication, and accounta

bility

This Role May Be a Strong Fit

• If YouHave led purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, storeroom, maintenance inventory, or plant materials functions in manufa
• cturingUnderstand how purchasing execution, supplier responsiveness, raw material support, and order follow-through impact production perf
• ormanceCan partner effectively with corporate sourcing while keeping local plant needs visible and moving
• forwardKnow how to create order in a busy parts room where availability, accuracy, labeling, storage discipline, and responsiveness all need to improve without losing urgency or customer
• serviceCan lead people while staying close enough to the work to remove barriers and improve daily ex
• ecutionCommunicate well with purchasing, maintenance, production, warehouse, suppliers, and corporate s

ourcing

What Dryloc

• k OffersA stable, full-time leadership role in an essential manufacturing env
• ironmentThe opportunity to influence purchasing execution, supplier follow-through, raw material support, inventory accuracy, and plant servic
• e levelsA visible role supporting high-value purchasing activity and day-to-day plant rel
• iabilityA team-focused culture built around safety, quality, continuous improvement, and accoun
• tabilityWork that supports essential hygiene products used by millions of people e

very day

What

• You Bring5–10+ years of experience in manufacturing purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, maintenance stores, inventory, or plant operations l
• eadershipExperience leading or supporting purchasing teams, supplier follow-up, purchase order execution, expediting, and internal custome
• r serviceAbility to work with corporate sourcing, plant operations, maintenance, production, warehouse, and suppliers to resolve material and purchasi
• ng issuesHands-on experience improving a parts room, storeroom, MRO inventory, or plant materials function where processes, layout, ownership, inventory accuracy, and service levels needed to be str
• engthenedStrong understanding of critical spares, min/max planning, cycle counts, inventory accuracy, replenishment processes, and ERP/MRP transaction d
• isciplineLeadership or supervisory experience in an operational setting; SAP experience i

s helpful

Success

• Looks LikeA purchasing team that supports high-value raw material activity with stronger follow-through, communication, and execution
• disciplineBetter visibility to order status, supplier issues, delivery timing, escalations, and purchasing
• prioritiesA more organized, accurate, labeled, accessible, and service-focused MRO parts room that maintenance and production c
• an rely onBetter availability of critical spares, repair parts, raw material support items, and maintenanc
• e suppliesImproved min/max discipline, cycle count accuracy, ERP transaction quality, inventory control, part identification, and replenishment c
• onsistencyA purchasing and parts room team that understands expectations and takes ownership of plant

execution

• Interested?If you are a hands-on purchasing, materials, MRO, parts room, or supply chain leader who wants to make a direct impact on supplier follow-through, raw material support, maintenance readiness, and plant performance, we would like to tal
• k with you.Message “INFO” or apply today to learn more about the Materials & Purchasing Manager opportunity at Drylock Technologies in Eau