Procurement Manager

BENEFITS: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K

AHF Products has a great career opportunity for a Procurement Manager at our headquarters in Mountville, Pa.

As a Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for identifying, developing, and managing relationships with existing and prospective AHF suppliers, including measuring and improving supplier performance.  This position must ensure that cost-effective materials are selected, and the suppliers have the necessary supply chain, production, and management systems in place to meet AHF and AHF customer needs.  Success will require regular interaction and communication with Product Management, Project Management, R&D, & Supply Chain to ensure alignment and maximize total customer satisfaction. 

This position leads large, highly visible procurement new business development, cost-reduction, process improvement, and optimization projects from initial design to final implementation with strong accountability for start-up execution & effectiveness, achieving savings targets, execution, and managing results in a collaborative manner.

JOB DUTIES:

Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:


* Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans; develop supplier requests for quotes, manage the request for proposals working with the Global Sourcing team to assure all material specifications, supplier quality programs, volumes, service metrics, and capacity are identified.


* Negotiate price, terms, and conditions, for product and services from domestic and foreign suppliers and consultation from domestic and foreign suppliers.


* Provide consultation to all internal customers on suppliers and market conditions and their impact on our business.


* Proactively communicate with both internal and external customers.


* Create metrics scorecards to communicate priorities and performance.


* Build partnerships with suppliers to collaboratively create win-win solutions.

Effectively manage between sometimes competing priorities, find the best solution for the business while maintaining internal customer satisfaction, relationships, and trust.


* Drives the use of formal supplier evaluation process.

Lead supplier development events to improve quality, decrease defects, or decrease costs to suppliers’ products.


* Analyze commodity spend to leverage volume and increase sourcing effectiveness, develop strategic commodity plans, forecasts, determine sourcing strategy, analyze, and adopt world-class practices, and determine the feasibility of in-sourcing/on-shoring vs.

outsourcing/off-shoring.


* Lead, guide, and monitor supplier contract negotiation process, coordinate negotiation strategy and objectives, and conduct supplier due diligence.


* Benchmark best practices across the company internally and externally to similar facilities to create a world-class procurement function.

QUALIFICATIONS:


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