Purchasing & Stores Manager
Georgia-Pacific
- Warrenton, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 teams.
- Bachelor's degree or four years of relevant storeroom, supply chain, inventory management, procurement, or maintenance experience
- Purchasing or relevant operations experience
- Experience supervising, developing and mentoring employees
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
- Inventory or storeroom management experience, including experience with an inventory management computer system
- 3+ years of experience in the manufacturing industry
- Demonstrated experience in driving procurement transformation and implementing changes
- Demonstrated experience in partnering with key internal stakeholders and leading cross functional teams in a matrixed environment