Purchasing Manager - #380756
Multimatic
Location: Multimatic Niche Vehicles NA, Markham, Ontario, Canada
Posted: April 18th, 2024
*Relocating to Newmarket, Ontario, Canada in Q3 2024*
Company Overview:
Multimatic Niche Vehicles North America (MNVNA) is the exclusive production facility of the Ford GT Mk IV supercar and the Ford Bronco DR racing truck.
Position Overview:
MNVNA is looking for a Purchasing Manager to be responsible for day-to-day purchasing activities, managing a small purchasing team, and utilizing our buying power to maintain quality at the most optimized cost, for a variety of electrical, fluid and mechanical automotive components and assemblies. The successful candidate will be required to manage purchase orders, requisitions and work cross-functionally with production, engineering, material management, quality assurance and other business teams.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage a small team of Buyers
- Negotiate and purchase various components, assemblies and systems
- Meet or exceed all objectives/requirements of the MNVNA business plan
- Build and maintain supply base while focusing on supplier development
- Build and maintain supplier relationships
- Work in conjunction with Material Control to plan and forecast inventory levels
- Perform root-cause analysis for supplier commercial and delivery errors and make recommendations for changes to eliminate causes (e.g. BOM, reporting issues, shortage of material etc.)
- Make recommendations for improving supply chain (e.g. fix lead time and recalculate inventory levels etc.)
- Constantly monitor industry pricing and product cost in order to identify cost-saving opportunities and maintain the best possible overall profitability for the company
- Maintain the confidentiality of the company and its business
- Develop and analyze Key Performance Indicators on a monthly basis to determine where continuous improvements can be achieved
- Work in conjunction with SQA to approve qualified suppliers
Experience:
- Completion of a Community College Diploma or a University Degree
- Professional designation in either Materials or Purchasing
- Minimum 7 years' experience purchasing in a manufacturing environment similar to the automotive industry (including a basic knowledge of all vehicle systems)
- Minimum 3 years' experience managing staff
- Excellent working knowledge of Purchasing and MRP systems
- Excellent problem solving techniques and methods
- Ability to interact with all levels of employees both within the organization and also with customers, suppliers, sub-contractors, engineers, etc.
- Strategic and analytical mind set towards purchasing
- Strong knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office
To learn more about Multimatic, check out our youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psOjJIh3t90
If you are interested in this position, apply by sending us your cover letter and resume.
We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.
As part of our commitment to ensuring our employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive of persons with disabilities, recruitment-related accommodations for disabilities, are available upon request throughout the recruitment and assessment process for applicants with disabilities.
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