Purchasing Manager

The Purchasing Manager coordinates with corporate procurement, identifies and maintains local and regional suppliers, and supervises purchasing agents to optimize the cost, quality, and reliability of the supply chain.

Requirements

• Reviews requisitions
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information
• Selects products for purchase by testing, observing, or examining items
• Estimates values according to knowledge of market price
• Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid
• Prepares purchase orders or bid requests
• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority
• Maintains procurement records
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality assurance personnel, users, vendors, and others
• Approves invoices for payment
• Verifies specifications of purchase requests
• Counts inventory items to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity
• Prepares purchase orders and sends to supplier and department originating request
• Computes total cost of items purchased
• Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries
• Verifies bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves bills for payment
• Expedites delivery of goods to users
• Meets production requirements on a daily basis while controlling inventory levels with various lead times
• Assists heavily with periodic plant inventory