Purchasing Stores Manager

What You Will Do

• Ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, stores and environmental policies and procedures
• Develop strong partnerships internally and externally, aligning with strategic initiatives, commitments, and supply chain strategies
• Working with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business goals to deliver long-term value; demonstrate a high degree of Customer Focus and an ability to effectively influence others
• Ability to lead and effectively manage change based on the visions and initiatives we are working to achieve (GP, Business, Operations, and Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P)).
• Proactively collaborate and partner with key stakeholders, including Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and SS&P’s Category, Sourcing and Inventory Management Teams.
• Leading, supervising, coaching, and mentoring employees
• Utilize critical thinking skills to identify, analyze, and execute on opportunities to streamline processes and achieve the lowest total cost of ownership on projects, storeroom inventory, and other purchases
• Sourcing, procuring, negotiating, contracting, and managing inventory of equipment, MRO parts, services, and supplies as appropriate
• Working with requestors to understand requirements, specifications, and timing; conducting competitive bidding process, including soliciting RFIs/RFPs and robust bid analysis & recommendations
• Managing and working to improve the procure-to-pay process (including invoice reconciliation management) and training internal customers on their roles in these processes as needed
• Ensure storerooms are disciplined, optimized, reliable, support defined asset strategies and are supported by corporate leadership and mill operation teams
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years or procurement of supply chain experience
• At least 3 years of purchasing, manufacturing operations or supply chain related experience
• Inventory or storeroom management experience, including experience with an inventory management computer system
• Experienced with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, & Outlook