Purchasing Quantitative | Nox Metals | Ferndale, MI
The role. Nox Metals supplies cut-to-size metal to aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturers. We're looking for a Purchasing Quantitative to improve how we decide what material to buy, from whom, when, and where to hold it.
You will combine hands-on supplier work with data analysis. Your models and tools should help Nox keep its delivery promises while using inventory efficiently and understanding the true cost of each order. You will work closely with supply chain operations, the factory floor, finance, sales, and the engineers building Nox's quoting and planning systems.
Success looks like. A robust demand forecasting system that reduces stockout risk and excess stock, lower inventory on hand while maintaining exceptional service, and inventory storage levels planned from geographic sales data and logistics flow.
You will:
• Forecast demand by alloy, temper, thickness, form, and size using quotes, orders, customer patterns, and available market signals
• Explore new products (metal types) to bring on and develop
• Build data-driven cost models to inform purchasing decisions, financial forecasting, quoting, and pricing
• Set and improve reorder points, safety stock, and transfer recommendations across facilities
• Investigate shortages, excess stock, expedites, and recurring forecast errors
• Backtest model recommendations against historical decisions to understand the effect on availability, inventory, cost, and margin
• Build clear dashboards and decision tools in SQL, Python, spreadsheets, or Nox's operational systems
• Check the data against physical stock and supplier commitments
• Complete other duties as assigned
You are:
• Strong in quantitative analysis and comfortable making decisions with incomplete operational data
• Able to use SQL and Python to analyze demand and costs
• Familiar with purchasing, inventory planning, operations research, industrial engineering, or applied data science in a physical-goods business
Nice to have:
• Experience in metals distribution or manufacturing
• Familiarity with aerospace or defense material requirements
• Experience with ERP or MRP systems
• Experience with forecasting or constrained optimization
• Experience with supplier negotiations
• Experience with pricing or quote economics
Pay and benefits:
• $90,000 to $110,000 salary, based on experience
• Equity in Nox Metals
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
This role is full time and in person in Ferndale, MI.
