Purchasing Manager

3 weeks ago


Concord, United States DNP Imagingcomm America Corporation Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Job purpose

Serve in supervisory capacity to department buyers. Foster teamwork and effective communication within the team and among the department’s internal and external suppliers and customers. Manage the procurement process to ensure that materials, supplies, tools, and equipment are properly ordered and delivered to support the Master Production Schedule and Customer Forecast (MPS/CF), sampling, scale-up, production launch of new products, and special requests by DNP IAM departments.

Drive profitability contribution of purchasing. Realize the best possible short- and long-term contracts, life-cycle cost, lead times, and service levels in our vendor relationships. Recommend best strategy for sole, dual, and multi-sourcing for DNP product families and individual SKUs.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Develop and manage a process that ensures updating of master data for parts, subassemblies, and final assemblies in the ERP system
  • Develop and manage computer models for calculation of inventory levels, reorder points and reorder quantities, along with managing obsolete and slow-moving inventory
  • Lead vendor identification, qualification, approval, and process to review key metrics.
  • Support contract review and RFQ process as needed, and review/approve PO’s and invoices
  • Establish process to Identify, maintain, track and present key performance metrics
  • Ensure buyers maintain and publish an accurate receiving schedule to warehouse personnel.
  • Maintain and publish reports to management, including period ending reports on the expected cadence
  • Drive root cause analysis, process improvement for personal job responsibilities and for the department
  • Develop exception reporting tools and work to resolve exceptions within the department, communicate and escalate exceptions as needed to upline management and to affected internal customers
  • Develop and manage education and training process for buyers to include effective covering of jobs (vacations, leave of absence, emergencies), employee growth and succession planning
  • Ensure Purchase Orders, vendor qualification and other department documentation stays in compliance with DNP expectations (Ex/ ISO, accounting, contract commitments, FTZ)
  • Maintain an effective personal buyer skill set. The manager may be required to serve as a buyer in support of a portfolio of products and perform the duties of other buyers in a backup role
  • Support transaction accuracy and year-end inventory activity
  • Support writing, editing, approval, publishing, and training of receiving instructions as needed
  • Other duties assigned by management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in business/related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Knowledge of ERP software, preferably Epicor
  • Three to five years of production control and Inventory Management experience, preferably in manufacturing
  • Must be detail-oriented, organized, and proactive.
  • Strong preference for experience in a 24/7 manufacturing environment
  • Strong preference for experience for a $110MM+ spend environment
  • Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) experience is a plus

Supervisory Responsibilities

This role would supervise Buyers and Inventory Control Clerks

Physical Demands

  • Must be able to stand/walk for 8 hours
  • Must be able to push/pull/ lift at least 45 lbs. individually and 50 lbs. with the help of a team member
  • Ability to work in an office setting, and spend primary working hours at a desk using a computer and other office equipment such as printers, copiers, postage machines, etc.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Safety Requirements

  • Ability to wear required PPE if in any manufacturing area.


The hiring range for this position is $95,000 to $110,000 per year. This range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the candidate's experience, skills, and qualifications. DNP offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. The benefits for this position include health, dental, vision, critical illness, life insurance, flexible spending, retirement, paid time off, pet insurance, and many retail discounts.


DNP IAM is a 100 percent U.S. subsidiary of Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) – the world’s largest manufacturer of dye-sublimation media for photo printers and thermal transfer ribbons and barcode printers. DNP Imagingcomm America Corporation has the broadest selection of solutions for the photo retail market and products designed to address retailer’s specific business goals and objectives—backed by the quality and reliability today’s customers expect. Manufacturing, sales, and development offices of dye-sublimation media for photo printers are in Concord, NC, and more information is available at www.dnpphoto.com/en-us/.

DNP Imagingcomm America Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.


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