Title: Purchasing Manager Location: Santa Clara, CA Duration: Full-time/Perm This role will be part of Global Business Operations and will be primarily responsible for managing corporate purchases including lab equipment, software, essential supplies etc., build and maintain relationship with vendors, negotiating discounts and managing corporate purchasing programs.
Overview This role will be part of Global Business Operations and will be primarily responsible for managing corporate purchases including lab equipment, software, essential supplies etc., build and maintain relationship with vendors, negotiating discounts and managing corporate purchasing programs.
Primary Responsibilities - Managing daily purchasing activities
- Managing supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, etc when required
- Maintaining the supplier database, purchase records, and related documentation
- Continuously cultivate and build supplier relationships leading to long term price and service agreements, shared costs savings (through collaborative value analysis/engineering)
- Work with the R&D engineering and quality departments in the selection and qualification of suppliers
- Supporting new product introduction activity on product development teams
- Utilize a broad knowledge of markets, suppliers, industries, and technologies to deliver annual cost savings and increased efficiencies
- Partner with R&D engineers and brand/product managers/staff to identify, analyze and perform financial analysis for cost savings opportunities
- Manage and improve purchasing system and corporate payment platforms
- Train employees how to use and enforce the purchasing process
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Change Management, Purchasing, or equivalent job experience
- 5+ years of relevant and recent procurement management experience in support of corporate general purchases
- Strong negotiation skills, including price, service levels, payment, and delivery terms
- Manage effective supplier relationships
- Demonstrated success with developing a strategic procurement approach in parallel to tactical hands-on engagement
- Experience in a start-up organization highly preferred
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be able to work in a fast paced, dynamic startup environment with competing priorities
- Able to change direction and adapt to change easily
- Strong work ethic is essential
