Purchasing & Stores Manager

Georgia-Pacific's Wood Products Division has an immediate opening for a talented leader with both strategic and tactical purchasing experience.

This role will be based out of our Lumber facility in Pineland, TX.

As a part of our Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization, this role reports to the Lumber Group Manager with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Pineland mill manager.

This position will manage local procurement and storeroom operations, as well as supervise personnel.

The ideal candidate has proven leadership experience; has a record of creating value through building strong working relationships with a diverse group of customers; has demonstrated a principled entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to build a capability that delivers a supply chain with an optimized total cost of ownership to operations.

A successful candidate will have positive communication skills and approach, a strong desire to learn, and the ability to think outside the box! If you are organized, safety-oriented and have strong organizational, decision-making, and analytical skills, this may be the opportunity for you !

What You Will Do



* Ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, stores and environmental policies and procedures.


* Develop strong partnerships internally and externally, aligning with strategic initiatives, commitments, and supply chain strategies
+ Working with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business goals to deliver long-term value; demonstrate a high degree of Customer Focus and an ability to effectively influence others


* Ability to lead and effectively manage change based on the visions and initiatives we are working to achieve (GP, Business, Operations, and Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P)).


* Proactively collaborate and partner with key stakeholders, including Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and SS&P's Category, Sourcing and Inventory Management Teams.


* Leading, supervising, coaching, and mentoring employees


* Utilize critical thinking skills to identify, analyze, and execute on opportunities to streamline processes and achieve the lowest total cost of ownership on projects, storeroom inventory, and other purchases


* Sourcing, procuring, negotiating, contracting, and managing inventory of equipment, MRO parts, services, and supplies as appropriate


* Working with requestors to understand requirements, specifications, and timing; conducting competitive bidding process, including soliciting RFIs/RFPs and robust bid analysis & recommendations


* Managing and working to improve the procure-to-pay process (including invoice reconciliation management) and training internal customers on their roles in these processes as needed


* Ensure storerooms are disciplined, optimized, reliable, support defined asset strategies and are supported by corporate leadership and mill operation team...