Strategic Sourcing Manager

Strategic Sourcing Manager will negotiate with vendors for the purchase of all materials, supplies, equipment and services used by the company.

Essential Functions

• Negotiates with vendors on goods and services, price, quality and service
• Establishes purchasing policies and ensures compliance for 3 manufacturing locations
• Continually examines vendor performance and develops new supply sources
• Examines bids and makes awards.
• Issues blanket POs as necessary to ensure product is available at all times.
• Review purchase price variances, raw material outages, and department metrics
• Manages purchase requires for approval and account numbers, and authority levels
• Approves invoices for payment
• Utilizes accounting reports such as P&L to develop control charts
• Experience with chemical industry ERP system; Chempax
• Works closely with receiving department to ensure proper supplies arrived
• Traces delinquent arrivals from purchase orders.
• Follows environmental and safety regulations (U.S. Laws)
• Complies with safety and corporate guidelines on business ethics.
• Complies with GMP Practices and Requirements
• Manage all raw material purchases for 3 manufacturing facilities
• Responsible for a total spend -$4M
• Responsible for selection of inventoried and non-inventoried suppliers
• Negotiate pricing and payment terms with raw material and service suppliers
• Perform supplier audits on a rotating basis to ensure ISO compliance
• Certified to ISO 9001 Standards for audit purposes
• Familiar with root cause analysis procedures/processes/techniques
• Experience performing supplier risk assessment and supplier site audits
• Perform RFQs, to ensure the best combination of price, quality, and availability for both raw materials and packaging related components
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a business-related area
• MBA preferred
• 6 years of purchasing experience in a manufacturing or science related industry
• 2-4 years of quality experience in a manufacturing or science related industry
• APICS CPIM Certification preferred
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)