• Oversee the organization’s purchasing/procurement/inventory planning functions to minimize the overall costs without compromising quality, reliability of supply and delivery time.
• ERP accuracy, maintenance & setup
• Vendor Management and evaluation
• Proactively identify market trends and commodity impacts to identify and anticipate potential risks to material, cost, and/or quality by critically analyzing sales
• Establish and maintain performance improvement measures for vendors
• Ensuring that all raw materials meet the required quality standards and specifications
• Collaborate with, mentor and coach junior buyers
• Assist in evaluating and negotiating complex or strategically important relationships to secure terms that are the in best interest of the organization
• Determine along with production inventory selection, qualities, lead times while maintaining accurate inventory systems
• Review costs and analyze forecasts for production planning along with Management
• Initiate continuous improvement projects to reduce cost and improve quality
• Develop and implement clear supplier KPI’s
• Ensuring that all inbound logistics are managed in an efficient manner
• Collaborate daily with internal stake holders – Production, AP, Customer service, Marketing and Sales
• Ensuring the accuracy, quality and specs of inventory. Ensuring the update of all goods received in the system in a timely fashion and that BOM reflects the correct usage
• Conducting inventory counts and ensuring ERP system data is correct

• Bachelor’s degree in business or supply chain/ procurement is preferred
• APICS would be an asset
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in supply chain/purchasing/inventory experience with a preference given to those with manufacturing experience
• Prior leadership experience would be an asset
• Understanding of lean principles including (Value- Stream mapping) experience would be an asset
• ERP/MRP experience
• Be detail-oriented and have excellent follow-through skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate flexible and efficient time management and to appropriately prioritize workload based upon organization or department needs
• Must have demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and effective organizational skills
• Excellent planning, and organizational skills with the ability to effectively manage several projects at one time while providing high attention to details and excellent follow-through skills

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