Senior Manufacturing Purchasing Leader

Lance Camper; Lancaster (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LANCE CAMPER MFG. CORP. in Lancaster, CA, is seeking a seasoned Purchasing Manager to lead our purchasing and procurement activities in a manufacturing environment.

You will oversee a large supplier base, ensure material availability for production, and drive cost and lead time improvements. The role requires strong negotiation, team leadership, and collaboration with Engineering, Quality, and Finance to optimize inventory and supplier performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of purchasing, procurement, supply-chain, or materials management experience.
• Significant purchasing experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing a large and complex number of purchased parts, materials, and suppliers.
• Experience managing 10,000+ parts/SKUs or a similarly complex purchasing environment is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing purchasing personnel.
• Strong supplier negotiation and vendor-management experience.
• Proven ability to prevent material shortages while controlling inventory.
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead the company's purchasing and procurement activities to ensure materials and components are available to support production.
• Manage and develop the Purchasing team, establishing clear responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Manage purchasing across a large and diverse parts and supplier base.
• Work closely with Production, Warehouse, Inventory, Engineering, Quality, Sales, and Accounting to ensure material requirements are understood and met.
• Monitor material requirements, lead times, inventory levels, and supplier performance to prevent production shortages.
• Develop purchasing strategies that balance cost, availability, lead time, quality, and inventory levels.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, lead times, minimum order quantities, freight, volume discounts, and supplier agreements.
• Identify and develop alternate and secondary suppliers to reduce supply-chain risk.
• Review purchasing requirements and ensure purchase orders are placed accurately and on time.
• Proactively identify potential shortages and resolve them before they impact production.
• Hold suppliers accountable for quality, delivery performance, pricing, and commitments.
• Work with Engineering and Quality to resolve supplier-related quality and component issues.
• Support new product introductions, engineering changes, and model-year changes by ensuring new components are sourced and available when required.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction, supplier consolidation, inventory reduction, and process improvement.
• Improve purchasing systems, reporting, forecasting, and ERP utilization.
• Establish and monitor purchasing KPIs, including supplier on-time delivery, shortages, purchase price variance, inventory levels, lead times, and cost savings.

Skills

Purchasing

Procurement

Supply chain

Negotiation

Leadership

Excel

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Microsoft Excel

Job description

LANCE CAMPER MFG. CORP. in Lancaster, CA, is seeking a seasoned Purchasing Manager to lead our purchasing and procurement activities in a manufacturing environment.

You will oversee a large supplier base, ensure material availability for production, and drive cost and lead time improvements. The role requires strong negotiation, team leadership, and collaboration with Engineering, Quality, and Finance to optimize inventory and supplier performance.