Senior MRO Procurement Lead — Onsite, AI-Driven Sourcing

Oil-Dri Corporation of America; Ripley (MS); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

PTO & holidays

Work–life balance

Career growth

Gym reimbursement

Health & dental

Job summary

Oil‑Dri Corporation of America seeks a Senior MRO Buyer to lead site-level procurement for maintenance, repair, and operations, ensuring critical parts and services meet quality, cost, and lead-time requirements. The role blends transactional execution with strategic sourcing, data stewardship in JDE, and cross-functional collaboration across maintenance, operations, engineering, and finance.

The position is based at an active mine site with daily on-site presence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience considered.
• CPSM, CPM., CSCP, CPIM or related certification preferred
• Five or more years of progressive MRO procurement, industrial purchasing, maintenance-materials, storeroom or manufacturing supply experience.
• Demonstrated experience with ERP/MRP purchasing and inventory processes; JDE experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end procurement of assigned MRO stock items, non-stock parts, repair services, facility services, tools, consumables and other indirect requirements; coordinate order acknowledgements, expedites, returns, repairs, warranty claims, invoice discrepancies and purchase-order closeout.
• Convert properly approved requisitions into accurate purchase orders in JDE; verify supplier, item, quantity, unit of measure, price, promised date, freight terms, payment terms, tax treatment and delivery location before release.
• Prioritize critical, emergency and production-impacting requirements; communicate status, alternatives and risks to Maintenance and Operations until resolution.
• Partner with Maintenance, Operations and storeroom personnel to determine which parts should be stocked and establish appropriate minimum, maximum, reorder point, safety stock and order-quantity settings.
• Maintain accurate JDE item-branch planning data, supplier lead times, pack quantities, costs, stocking locations, equipment references and approved substitutes using usage history, equipment criticality, lead time, downtime exposure and supplier availability to balance service level with working capital.
• Lead reviews of slow-moving, obsolete, duplicate and excess inventory; recommend redeployment across Oil‑Dri locations, return-to-supplier, repair, disposition or retention as insurance spares.
• Develop sourcing strategies, conduct RFQs and negotiate total cost, payment and freight terms, lead times, warranties, service levels, consignment and VMI programs.
• Consolidate spend where beneficial; qualify alternate sources for single-source, long-lead and critical items.
• Manage supplier performance, corrective actions, continuity risk and onboarding requirements using delivery, quality, responsiveness and invoice-accuracy data.
• Serve as the site MRO purchasing and JDE subject-matter resource; protect item, supplier and purchasing master-data quality.
• Follow Procurement, Accounting, approval, contract, records-retention, ethics and segregation-of-duties requirements; maintain auditable documentation.
• Reduce manual touches, emergency buys, invoice exceptions, stockouts and cycle time; coach junior buyers and authorized site users.

Skills

Negotiation

Spend analysis

Excel

AI procurement tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain

Procurement certifications (CPSM/CSCP/CPIM)

5+ years of MRO procurement experience

JDE experience

Tools

JDE

Job description

Oil‑Dri Corporation of America seeks a Senior MRO Buyer to lead site-level procurement for maintenance, repair, and operations, ensuring critical parts and services meet quality, cost, and lead-time requirements. The role blends transactional execution with strategic sourcing, data stewardship in JDE, and cross-functional collaboration across maintenance, operations, engineering, and finance.

The position is based at an active mine site with daily on-site presence.