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Long Prairie Packing, LLC, an American Foods Group Company has an opportunity for a Purchasing Lead at our Long Prairie, MN plant.
As a Purchasing Lead you will:
- Assist all areas of purchasing and will be responsible for all facility level buying.
- Train and execute best practices of e-Purchasing, e-Commerce, SCM, CMMS, MRO, BPO, Consignment programs, and Supply Chain Integration Strategies.
- Purchase industrial equipment, plant packaging materials, and chemicals.
- Assist with establishing annual leasing programs and contracts at the facility level.
- Responsible for training purchasing employees in policies, procedures, purchasing protocols and KPIs.
- Will audit department related to purchasing SOPs.
- Will assist in annual budgeting of operational and packaging supplies.
- Work directly with purchasing manager on corporate strategic sourcing national account/agreement programs.
- Prepare purchase orders and solicit bid quotes.
- Assist in inventories. Monitor monthly.
- Assist to develop and update a strategic purchasing plan that leverages purchasing synergies.
- Support and resolve supplier management issues (on-time delivery, supply disruption, supplier quality follow up issues or other contractual compliance issues as deemed appropriate).
- Lead staff to execute purchases at lowest total acquisition cost through effective supplier selection, negotiation, material planning, and conformance criteria for development projects and ongoing supply.
- Develop, negotiate, and implement lean material flow (supply) initiatives.
- Assist in managing leverage requirements and achieve best-in-class supply chain performance.
- Research, select and negotiate with potential suppliers and vendors for the acquisition of manufacturing, development and testing equipment, building and expanding the assembly line and production area.
- Enable the timely procurement of goods and services by aligning the best overall value to AFG within established procurement policies and procedures.
- Offer insights and leverage knowledge of market conditions for goods/services purchased.
- NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.