Purchasing Manager

Thank you for your interest in joining our team!  At CGB, you can contribute to meaningful work, grow professionally and personally, and belong in a place where everyone has a voice.  

Founded in 1969, CGB Enterprises, Inc. is known as an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries.  Today, CGB operates an enterprise with over 100 locations and nearly 2,000 U.S. employees overseeing a diverse family of businesses that provide an array of services for producers and logistics services for an international base of customers. The combination of our assets provides a growing organization that is celebrating over 50 years of strength and stability!

This job is primarily responsible for oversight of inventory control management (purchasing, tracking, and storage) of both low value consumable supplies and high value mechanical and electrical parts and components and management of vendor/supplier relationships. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, communication with customers, managers, and contractors to help efficiently coordinate activities and analyze changes in materials and supplies to ensure proper inventory supply levels. Additionally, this role will directly manage staff.

In this job, you will:

• Develop and implement purchasing policies and procedures; and approved vendor/supplier list.
• Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies.
• Develop, establish, implement, and enforce vendor/supplier guidelines, obligations, and service levels agreements to the organization by developing and managing vendor/supplier relationships.
• Monitor and analyze trends in vendor/supplier spend and material availability to make recommendations for future spend, and to identify areas for possible savings and needs.
• Develop cost reduction strategies and savings plans.
• Accountable for ensuring appropriate parts, components, and supplies as needed for location(s) to provide services and products to meet customer needs and standards.
• Supervise physical inventory counts, including ensuring accurate documentation of inventory storage/location.
• Participate in the development of specifications for equipment, parts, products and/or substitute materials.
• May delegate and direct work with contractors assisting in projects to ensure proper equipment, parts, and supplies are on hand.
• Supervise employees in the purchasing and inventory control department; includes overseeing staffing and job development activities (hiring, training, employment performance management, promotions, corrective actions, terminations, etc.); develop communicate, and manage individual staff performance expectations that align with company goals.
• Work with Accounting Department to manage purchasing department budgets.
• Administer online purchasing systems, maintain records of goods ordered and received.
• Arrange for disposal of surplus materials.
• Other duties as assigned.

Here’s what you’ll need to be considered:

Education

Required – High school diploma

Preferred – Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant experience

Experience

Required – 5 years’ experience of purchasing and/or inventory in a plant or manufacturing environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of the respective equipment, and various parts.
• Knowledge of and ability to operate heavy equipment, such as forklift; where applicable.
• Effective computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of people within and outside the organization.
• Effective leadership skills or ability to learn and apply leadership skills.
• Strong decision making, negotiation, and conflict management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong time management and prioritization skills, with ability to remain flexible to changing priorities.
• Strong technical skills about relevant local standards.
• Ability to work extended hours, such as evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Here’s additional information you need to know:

Physical Demands & Requirements

Heavy work.  Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Hearing.  Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.  Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

The employee is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment.

Environmental Conditions

The work environment described here are meant to be representative of those an employee would normally encounter while performing the essential functions of this job.

The physical environment requires the employee to work both inside where there are limited extremes to heat and/or cold; moderate noise; a normal office environment outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions. Frequently required to use personal protective equipment.

Travel, up to 30% travel for trainings, meetings, pick-ups and/or deliveries.

This description reflects the assignment of essential functions and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job.  Nothing in this job description restricts the organization’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

The expected base pay range for this role is:

$71,609.00 - $90,885.00

Actual pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including work location, job-related knowledge, skills and relevant experience for the job. Pay amount does not guarantee employment for any particular period of time.

Are you ready to make a meaningful career move & an impact at CGB?  Apply today! 

 

CGB Enterprises, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  EEO is the Law links in English or Spanish. We are unable to legally hire anyone who is not eligible to work in the United States nor are we able to sponsor visas.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this position. It should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

 

All Third Party Agencies, Headhunters, and Recruiters

CGB Enterprises, Inc. and its Subsidiaries only forms contracts with recruiters with whom we have an established relationship and with whom we have in place a signed contract. All contact from third parties must go through our Human Resources Department. Any contact made outside of our Human Resources Department by a third party will cancel any future business relationships between the third party and CGB Enterprises, Inc. and its Subsidiaries.

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