Purchasing Team Lead

The Purchasing Lead is responsible for partnering with the Purchasing Manager to manage the day-to-day operations of the buyer organization. The Lead will have responsibility to work with a team of buyers to achieve the company's objectives in terms of cost, quality, and delivery of goods and services. This role involves strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract negotiation, and the ability to work in a highly functional and global team environment. The Purchasing Lead will collaborate with the buyers to ensure that all purchase requisitions are worked in a time efficient manner and worked deeply for optimal quote outcome.

The Role

• Oversee and optimize the buyers’ daily operational performance, including workload management, pricing competitiveness, negotiation effectiveness, delivery performance, order closure, recovery actions, and backlog and expediting control.
• The lead will track buyer performance across all measured metrics and...