Procurement Supervisor

Job Summary

Job Description

**This role is a predominantly a work-from-home position. However, candidate must reside within a reasonable distance from our Northfield, IL office or Mundelein, IL office**

JOB SUMMARY

Supervise, guide and direct work teams to ensure execution of defined Inventory Management Key Performance Indicators.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly tasks of team members meet defined standards for performance.
• Recommend and communicate to management potential inventory and backorder problems.
• Manage planning parameters associated with supply and demand to ensure inventory plans are executed within the KPI parameters.
• Monitor the procurement of the distributed buying team- approximately 700 vendors and $900M in inventory.
• Coordinate with internal partners (Customer Service, Transportation, and Branch Operations) to ensure goals are met and customers are satisfied. Develop and mentor staff through on-boarding, open communications, training and development opportunities and performance management processes. Build and maintain employee morale and motivation; ensure the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies.
• Ensures all customers, both internal and external needs are met- be the point of escalation when team members need assistance in difficult scenarios.
• Perform various procurement duties requiring a complete understanding of the supply chain including placing purchase orders, transferring stock, and backorder analysis to resolve and/or prevent backorders.

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field

Work Experience

• 3 years or more of experience in Supply Chain
• Experience applying knowledge of MRP, buying, demand planning and forecasting

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to assess and initiate actions independently, demonstrated ability to take charge of a situation, team or project.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision and determining when escalation is issues is necessary.
• Demonstrated problem solving ability in an environment of rapid change and with many variables.
• Experience analyzing data and or processes to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and identify solutions.
• Experience presenting to and communicating to various audiences.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong visual presentation skills related to reports, scorecards, dashboards and presentations.
• A Self- starter, accountable, proactively engaged.

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS

Certificate/Licensure

• APICS or equivalent supply chain management certification

Additional

• SAP/APO experience Advanced skills in Excel

Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

The anticipated salary range for this position:

This salary range is an estimate and the actual salary will vary based on applicant’s location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp.

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Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.