Procurement Manager

Join the Weisiger Group Team

As a family-owned company under our fourth generation of leadership, we have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.

Since 1926, we've supported the strength of our communities by supplying equipment for critical infrastructure and commerce, and by funding programs that advance social and economic vitality. Being around for nearly 100 years means we change and pivot to capture opportunities and avoid challenges. We make smart investments in our company and continuously improve as part of our vision to be a trailblazing company that's built to last.

We're looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we're committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential.

Join a leading solutions provider and be a part of a group of highly skilled technicians, sales and support team members who exist to serve as a trusted partner to our customers, communities, and fellow employees.

Summary

The Procurement Manager is responsible for converting deep category expertise, functional business requirements, and stakeholder needs into professional sourcing, supplier selection, and on-boarding events. The Sourcing Manager role is considered a critical position within Weisiger Group's sourcing and procurement team, and reports to the PSG Director. The role can provide upward mobility with a fast-growing organization, and entails extensive visibility to Weisiger Group executives, functional leaders, and key stakeholders.

The Procurement Manager will be directly responsible for all aspects of strategic sourcing, including go-to-market messaging, supplier selection, supplier onboarding, service level agreement and cost negotiation, contract development, policy development, supplier management, risk management, continuous improvement, supplier performance measurement, and routine supplier evaluations using balanced KPI scorecards (or similar methodologies). The Procurement Manager works closely with Weisiger Group's functional business leaders to understand critical business requirements, forecasted volumes, service levels, quality specification, and other similar requirements, and in turn devises flexible sourcing strategies to meet these needs in a manner aligned to business requirements, strategies, and cost mandates.

The Procurement Manager is a full-time, salaried, competitively compensated position with an annual performance-based bonus opportunity should key performance benchmarks be successfully met.

Essential Functions

• Quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Weisiger Group end-to-end operations (core business, business unit focus, etc.) to master fundamental sourcing and procurement dimensions across the enterprise
• Responsible for managing the entire category spend over which the Sourcing Manager has been assigned
• Develops professional, high-impact, and insightful go-to-market messaging documents (e.g., RFI's and RFP's) to showcase Weisiger Group's buyer-of-choice philosophy
• Manages and drives the published sourcing event calendar to ensure that events are launched on-time and effectively managed from sourcing to on-boarding
• Provides routine updates to the Procurement director and other senior leaders regarding sourcing calendar status, in-flight sourcing events, supplier performance, costs, budget impacts and compliance issues
• Works to develop contract-based strategic supplier partnerships for assigned suppliers and categories including performance management plans
• Maintains a proactive understanding of supplier options by geography and capability
• Develops the cost structure for services based on geography and service provided
• Leads Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Request for Proposal (RFP) processes
• Responsible for supplier lifecycle management, including supplier onboarding, performance and risk management, and termination
• Ensures that suppliers can deliver the goods, products, and service services contracted for, such that cost, quality, volume, and timeliness satisfy current and emerging Weisiger Group requirements
• Negotiates contracts working with the Procurement Director
• Utilizes existing KPI's, develops new KPIs as required, and generates routine spend, performance, and issues reports to effectively monitor supplier performance
• Communicates directly with suppliers to proactively remediate issues and identified risks
• Develops and enforces internal policies related to sourcing and procurement
• Works closely with internal leaders, customers, and stakeholders to ensure that goods, products, and services received consistently meet Weisiger Group standards
• Works cross-functionally with suppliers and Weisiger Group customers and stakeholders to manage service and/or quality-related issues (e.g., on-time delivery, on-time completion, etc.) through problem solving and rapid solution deployment
• Responsible for providing finance with information related to actual spend for annual budgeting and monthly-quarterly-annual cash flow projections
• Responsible for maintaining relevant data tables in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as supplier master, lead times, and costs
• Works cross-functionally across the business to identify continuous improvement opportunities
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Four-year accredited college diploma (bachelor's or global equivalent), preferably in supply chain management, business administration, or related fields
• Professional certifications relevant to the role, such as Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM), Lean and/or Six Sigma Green Belt, or similar pursuit are beneficial
• Minimum ten to twelve years of experience in a supply chain, sourcing, and/or procurement-based role within the manufacturing, distribution, transportation, or similar industries
• Experience (included as part of the overall ten to twelve years of experience, above) which includes identifying and developing new supplier relationships, negotiating terms, executing purchases with suppliers, and providing hands-on supplier performance management expertise
• Experience working in a complex, cross-functional environment consisting of multiple functional stakeholders, suppliers, and senior business leaders
• Demonstrated responsibility for professionally managing a minimum of $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 in category spend across the total experience level above

Demonstrated Competencies

• Proven ability to effectively manage complex sourcing operations with a clear focus on high-performance, cost management, and continuous improvement
• Strong, demonstrable information technology category expertise including software systems procurement, specifications generation, sourcing experience, and performance management of IT-related suppliers
• Strong knowledge of sourcing and procurement best practices
• Understanding of manufacturing, distribution, and transportation industries
• Proven ability to develop RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, and related supplier contracts
• Analytically minded individual with proven ability to analyze spend, measure key performance indicators-trending and make regular data-driven decisions to optimize supplier performance, category performance, and reduce enterprise procurement costs
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and train subordinate personnel to effectively execute responsibilities and drive high-performance outcomes
• Ability to operate in a highly entrepreneurial, dynamic workplace
• Ability to create a highly positive working experience in a high-stress environment
• Functional knowledge of ERP and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) systems
• Deep competence in Microsoft Office suite including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Power BI which includes data extraction, compilation, data table development, pivot table development, and other similar analytical functions to translate available data into actionable intelligence driving performance, lower risk, and cost-out opportunities

Workplace Requirements

The physical demands and work environment 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 functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We're committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

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