American Foods Group, LLC has an opportunity for a Purchasing Manager to join our team for our new America's Heartland Packing facility in Warren County, Missouri.
- Oversee all areas of purchasing and will be responsible for all facility level buying and institution of national agreements, contracts, and programs.
- Develop, train, and execute best practices of e-Purchasing, e-Commerce, SCM, CMMS, MRO, BPO, Consignment programs, and Supply Chain Integration Strategies.
- Purchase industrial equipment, utilities, 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 & KPI’s.
- Directly responsible for development of all CERs, capital purchases, and budgets.
- Will audit department related to purchasing SOP’s.
- Will assist in annual budgeting of operational and packaging supplies.
- Work directly with Controller, Maintenance Manager, & Corporate Purchasing on corporate strategic sourcing national account/agreement programs.
- Prepare purchase orders and solicit bid proposals.
- Assist in inventories. Monitor monthly.
- 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.
- Manage 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.
- Be a change agent for procurement and manage the overall relationship with the business and key stakeholders.
- 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.
