Purchasing Manager
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Position Summary
The Purchasing Manager, your role will involve sourcing equipment, goods, and services, as well as managing vendors. You will be responsible for performing strategic procurement activities across various spend categories, aiming to find better deals and more profitable suppliers.
Your expertise in supplier relationship management and negotiation skills will be crucial in ensuring cost-effective and high-quality procurement.
Additionally, you will analyze market trends, forecast demand, and mitigate risks to optimize the procurement process.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop, lead and execute purchasing strategies
- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
- Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation
- Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power
- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
- Assess, manage and mitigate risks
- Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers
- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries
- Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand
Supervisory Responsibilities
Yes
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Proven working experience as Purchasing Manager, Agent, or Officer
- Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management
- Interest in market dynamics along with business sense
- Direct experience in negotiation and networking
- Working experience of vendor management software
- Ability to gather and analyze data and to work with figures
- Solid judgement along with decision making skills
- Strong leadership capabilities
- BS degree in supply chain management, civil construction, or business administration
- Should have DBE Certification or have the industry knowledge.
- Should have CFA Certification or have the industry knowledge.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs, balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust to focus.
Work Environment
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of his job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Safety Hazard of the Job
Minimal Hazards
This job description does not list all duties and responsibilities of the job. You may be asked by supervisors or managers to perform other instruction, duties and responsibilities, as appropriate. You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the duties and responsibilities identified in this job description.
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- Department
- Corporate areas
- Locations
- Louisiana, United States
- Function
- Administración y finanzas // Administration and finance
Purchasing Manager
Lake Charles, Louisiana
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