Purchasing Manager

Our client is looking for a Purchasing Manager to play the following roles...
• Identify and source new suppliers and vendors(Most important)
• Manage vendor and supplier selection process based on price, quality, support, capacity and reliability.
• In charge of the raw material sourcing & purchasing, ensuring the delivery in time, developing and managing the strategic relationship with suppliers.
• Support, availability, reliability, production and distribution.
• Analyze price proposals, financial reports, and other data and Information to determine reasonable prices.
• Monitor changes affecting supply and demand, tracking market conditions, price trends, or futures markets.
• Supervise the delivery of ordered materials/services to meet the committed delivery dates.
• Keeping track of historical purchases through a database of old Purchase orders, Offers and bidding evaluations files (kept as reference for the future).
• Establish and implement purchasing policies, procedures across all spend of Operations and educating all internal customers about the process (multiple policies not only purchasing: vendor creation forms, payment process etc.).
• Monitor and follow applicable laws and regulations.
• Prepare and evaluates documentation (e.g. requisitions, change orders, bids, etc.).
• Improve payments terms with the suppliers to help provide the Company with the optimum payment facilities.
• Following up with Finance on payments and invoices for the different suppliers.
• Develop reports and analysis to monitor supply process.
• Suppliers Management and development.
• Responds to inquiries for the purpose of resolving issues or referring to appropriate parties.
• Attend meetings, trade shows, conferences, conventions and seminars to network with people in other integrated industries.