Sr. Purchasing Manager

Department: Purchasing, Solutions
Location: Carol Stream, IL
Type: Full-time

Summary:

The Senior Purchasing Manager leads all purchasing activities across assigned categories while driving cost optimization, supply continuity, and supplier performance. The Senior Purchasing Manager partners closely with Sales, Operations, Product Development, Supply Chain, and Finance to develop strategic initiatives, mitigate risk, improve supplier relationships, and support profitable business growth.

The role provides leadership and development to team members, ensuring alignment with business objectives and operational requirements. Success in this role requires strong leadership, analytical thinking, negotiation, expertise, and the ability to drive continuous improvement across purchasing processes and supplier performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Foster a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer service excellence.
• Liaise with multiple departments such as Sales, Product Development, Scheduling, and Warehouse personnel to ensure alignment of activities and objectives;
• Responsible for managing purchasing categories;
• Plan, organize, manage, and evaluate specific categories;
• Direct the development of formal and informal bids for categories managed;
• Responsible for managing Category Manager(s) and maintaining oversight of each manager's categories;
• Ensures all applicable legal and contractual provisions are met; directs and participates in the solicitation, evaluation, and award of bids; performs or assists others in the performance of price/cost analysis;
• Strong understanding of MRP, Inventory Control, and Work Order Management in a manufacturing environment;
• Inventory Management; stays within company goals for all inventory metrics;
• Provides monthly reporting to Director of Purchasing for measuring goal attainment as directed from company and department KPIs;
• Maintains rapport and good working relationships with suppliers;
• Works in collaboration with Sales and Product Development to understand business needs, global market insights, risks, and opportunities with external and internal customers;
• Continues to develop supplier performance metrics by measuring Supplier Scorecards;
• Espouses a positive and productive work environment;
• Demonstrates professionalism in all interactions with others;
• Stays abreast of trends and advances applicable to commodity responsibilities;
• Follows cGMP guidelines and processes as established in department SOPs;
• Will complete other duties as assigned

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 individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of purchasing or equivalent relevant experience;
• Previous leadership experience managing teams and developing talent preferred.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Strong communication skills, internal and external;
• Customer service and relationship management oriented;
• Analytical and good math skills;
• Take charge attitude and initiative;
• Effective negotiating skills;
• Experience that demonstrates attainment of goals and effectiveness in problem-solving;
• Basic understanding of terms and conditions;
• Familiarity with current industry good manufacturing practice requirements;
• Intermediate use of MS Office;
• Attention to detail;
• Able to aggregate information into a summary presentation for management review;
• Experience with ERP systems such as JDE.

Work Conditions & Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Ability to lift up to 10 lbs;
• Work environment is normally in an office setting. Must be able to make frequent rounds in a warehouse/production environment;
• Ability to view a computer screen and type for extended hours;
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time;
• Other physical requirements include moderate standing and occasional squatting, bending, and twisting;
• Ability to work around a variety of different smells and aromas;
• Ability to adjust work schedule as business needs require.

Quality/Safety Responsibilities:

All Prinova employees are required to ensure compliance standards with food safety, food defense, and food quality (FDA, ILDPH, FSMA, and BRC).

It is the responsibility of each employee to comply with occupational safety and health standards issued under OSHA and to follow all rules, regulations, and procedures established by the Company to ensure that their actions do not impact the health and safety of themselves or others.

What's in it for you?

Competitive Pay - $132,000 - $140,000 annually

Experience, education, geographic location and shift all taken into consideration.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Employer paid STD and LTD
• HSA and FSA
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• PTO
• Employer paid Basic Life Insurance
• 401(k) & Roth with employer match
• Eight Paid Holidays + 3 Floating Holidays
• Voluntary - Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident
• Personal growth including training and development opportunities