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· Oversee purchasing and maintain cost analysis studies · Collect, analyze, and summarize purchasing data and trends. · Provide vendor audits and confirm capabilities · Work with project management, production, engineering in establishing materials standards · Develop primary and alternate sources of supply for critical and/or unique items to assure that the company is protected from the risk of single source vendors. · Assist in developing policies and procedures on the types and quantities of materials, supplies and tools to keep in inventory · Explore new sources and/or alternate products that may offer increased benefits. · Maintain a high level of business ethics in all vendor relations; develop supplier relationships · Verifies purchase requisitions by comparing items to the BOM · Prepares purchase orders by verifying specification and price; obtaining recommendations from suppliers for substitute items; obtaining approval from the engineering department. · Obtains purchased items by forwarding orders to suppliers, monitoring and expediting orders. · Verifies receipt of items by comparing items received to items ordered; resolve shipments in error with suppliers. · Keeps information accessible by sorting and filing documents. · Maintains data integrity within SAP. · Develop & expand SAP Purchasing Applications within ERP System · Assist Estimating with obtaining procurement quotes. · Negotiate Freight cost and Terms with current Vendors · Perform Supplier audit onsite and off-site · Optimization of coating and outside operation of purchasing process · Optimization of Raw material, Lexan & extrusion purchasing process · 5-10 years required of Manufacturing and/or Automation Experience Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Job Types: Permanent, Full-time Pay: From $70,000.00 per year Benefits: * Dental care * Extended health care * RRSP match * Vision care Experience: * Purchasing: 5 years (preferred) * Manufacturing: 5 years (preferred) * Automation: 5 years (preferred) Work Location: In person Location Tecumseh , ON Work location On site Salary $ 70,000 YEAR annually Terms of employment Permanent employment Full time Starts as soon as possible vacancies 1 vacancy Source indeed.com #10229690453 Various locations Tecumseh, ON
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Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore account for 642 of the open purchasing roles on WorkMundi. If you're looking in those regions, you have real volume to work with. The US has 130 open positions. Check where your target employers are hiring before you apply.
About 59% of purchasing ads are written in English on our board. That's a useful signal: it tells you which postings to prioritize if English is your working language, but it says nothing about whether the job itself requires you to speak it. Read the full job description.
When you interview for purchasing, expect to explain how you've managed a vendor relationship that went wrong. Hiring managers want to hear a concrete example: which vendor, what broke down, and what you did to fix it or end it. They're testing whether you can handle conflict without burning bridges.
The employers posting most are Private Advertiser (43 jobs), Veterans Health Administration (16), zffriedric (11), and avnet (10). These names tell you where volume hiring is happening—worth researching their interview style and culture before you apply.
