Job DescriptionPurchasing Manager Job Purpose:As the Country Purchasing Manager for Kysor Warren EPTA US, you will serve as a key operational and strategic leader driving manufacturing procurement excellence, supplier performance, and supply chain continuity. In this vital role, you will lead and develop the purchasing team, optimize inventory and material availability in SAP, and align local execution with broader Epta Group strategies, ensuring flawless support for production schedules, new product introductions, and sustainable growth.
Basic Requirements/Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, Procurement, Business Administration, Operations, Engineering, or a related field; an MBA or advanced supply chain degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment, including people leadership or team-direction experience.
- Demonstrated success in supplier negotiations, shortage recovery, inventory management, and procurement process improvement.
- Strong knowledge of MRP, purchasing planning parameters, supplier lead times, open-order management, and manufacturing material flow.
- Proficiency with SAP and advanced ability to analyze purchasing, inventory, and supplier data in Microsoft Excel or Power BI.
- Excellent commercial judgment, analytical problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, international, cross-functional environment and travel to suppliers or Epta locations as business needs require.
Key Responsibilities: - Lead, coach, and develop buyers responsible for direct materials, indirect materials, components, supplies, and services.
- Ensure purchase orders are placed accurately and within supplier lead times, with clear confirmation, due-date management, and timely escalation of risks.
- Establish disciplined open-order review, shortage management, supplier follow-up, and recovery processes to protect production schedules and customer commitments.
- Partner with Strategic Sourcing and Regional Supply Chain to execute commodity strategies, supplier transitions, localization and cost-reduction initiatives.
- Monitor inventory, demand signals, safety stock, excess and obsolete exposure, and material availability; implement actions that reduce both shortages and excess inventory.
- Build supplier performance routines covering on-time delivery, lead-time adherence, quality, responsiveness, pricing compliance, capacity, and corrective actions.
- Collaborate with Planning, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Logistics, and Customer teams to support production, new product introductions, engineering changes, and business priorities.
- Develop and maintain purchasing policies, standard work, approval controls, and data accuracy in SAP or related ERP systems.
- Ensure procurement activities comply with company policies, applicable U.S. regulations, trade requirements, and Epta Group ethical and sustainability standards.
- Track and communicate purchasing KPIs, material risks, supplier recovery plans, inventory actions, and savings performance to leadership.
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