Purchasing Section Head

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining working relations with suppliers assigned.
• Monitoring stock and inventories of local warehouses, and planning quantities of parts and materials needed, with respect to production and delivery plans.
• Negotiating contracts and specific conditions for delivery of parts, materials or services.
• Ensuring timely procurement and order management to ensure parts and materials are appropriately delivered.
• Ensuring supplier performance reporting, announcing and clarifying claims, if necessary.
• A job at this level… Buys low-volume (direct and indirect) materials, parts, or services, for the plant or site assigned.
• Utilizes frame contracts, or buy occasionally from other local or regional source (usually for indirect materials and/or within limits).
• Plans the needs according to plan, monitor local stock inventories, and respectively places the procurement orders. <...