Purchasing Manager

Tenneco Inc.

United States, Iowa, Burlington

Nov 13, 2024

Tenneco is one of the world's leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 78.000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, Motorparts, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

JOB TITLE: Manager, Purchasing

LOCATION NAME: Burlington

REPORTS TO: Plant Manager and functionally to Global Purchasing Director Ignition

DEPARTMENT: Purchasing

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

The role of the Purchasing Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize purchasing and procurement strategies for spend across the plant organization. This includes acquiring resources within budget and facilitating communication between the plant, commodity team(s) and group constituents in order to deliver products and services according to business plan objectives. The Plant Purchasing Manager will manage the plant purchasing, guaranteeing the disposition of the materials and components of high quality, short delay, and low cost, so as to enhance the ability of competition. The Plant Purchasing Manager will purchase materials, supplies and services at the best price, quality and delivery available. Supervises analysts, project managers, and contractors to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet the required specifications. Develops and delivers sourcing strategies and annual savings plan for the plant. Ensures implementation of supplier and other sourcing changes.

This role will also have global responsibilities for CAPEX Sourcing and is responsible for the sourcing, specification, and project management of capital equipment and components for new, rebuild, and improved group wide manufacturing processes. The Capex Sourcing role will directly report to the Ignition Global Purchasing Manager/Director and will direct and control the purchasing efforts of Capital Equipment for Ignition. As the global purchasing Capital Equipment expert, he/she will understand and effectively communicate global business trends and drivers that include technological and business footprints with regard to Capital Equipment.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

The following pages describe the skills and requirements needed for the Purchasing Manager position.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Point of escalation for all supplier related issues in the Plant
Responsible for strategic management of plant spend .
Works with suppliers and buyers to review market, price, delivery conditions and trends to determine present and future material availability. Directs purchasing programs accordingly.
Negotiates contracts with suppliers/contractors in line with company policy and procedures.
Proposes dollar authorization limits for local purchasing staff.
Oversees disposal/sale of surplus material or scrap products
Monitors purchase order requisitions and purchasing contracts for conformance to company policy.
Engages suppliers when serious variations arise in delivery, quality, price or conditions of sale. Involves corporate support with suppliers as needed to best meet needs of plant operations.
Trains new staff members, provide daily supervision of local staff and conduct performance appraisals.
Oversees overall plant purchasing operations to insure an ongoing supply of materials, tools, services and indirect materials to best support plant operations
Implements systems and monitoring processes to prevent raw material (e.g., precious metal, steel and nickel) and indirect material outages while managing inventory to meet plant objectives including but not limited to inventory targets and monthly spending objectives.
Develops and manages direct and indirect material projects to achieve plant savings in support of business plan.
Routinely provides forecast of purchase price savings (MCS) and scrap sales revenue.
Ensure targets are met for supplier Payment Terms and Days Payable as per Tenneco Corporate Purchasing policy
Supports corporate requests for plant data as needed
Manages supply base in manner to maintain IATF 16949 (quality standard) compliance and plant certification.
Develops draws up and manages the Purchasing budget.
Deploys the plant purchasing strategy in four purchasing processes: build a supplier base, help suppliers to progress, integrate suppliers into projects, integrate suppliers into day-to-day operations.
Implement raw materials productivity actions.
Direct and manage sourcing strategies from beginning to end. This includes interface with specific commodity teams and plant stakeholders.
Monitor and analyze trends in plant spending and inventory control in order to make recommendations for the future, and to identify areas for possible savings.
Analyze trends and market conditions for the present and future pricing, availability, lead-time, and capacity of goods and services.
In Coordination with Commodity Managers, Interview, identify, and qualify potential new vendors or suppliers in order to secure more cost-effective sources of products and services
Monitor vendor, service provider, outsourcer, and/or contractor performance to ensure quality of service. Update monthly supplier performance matrix(s) in the Zycus system
Develop and deliver purchasing and inventory reports, bid proposals, requirements documentation, and tender documents.
Develop and implement plans to auction, recycle or otherwise sell obsolete inventory and equipment.
Coordinate delivery of CAPEX, and other collateral equipment to the plant.in accordance with GPP
Ensure good quality and on-time delivery of the supplied products and achieve budget targets of suppliers (i.e., Parts per Million (PPM), On Time Delivery (OTD)).
In coordination with Plant Quality Department, monitor supplier quality, supplier audits and supplier improvement efforts
Manage suppliers' audit and suppliers' improvement
Optimize the number of suppliers and push optimization of systems (e.g., paperless invoicing
Establish supplier contracts with Corporate Commodity Teams and manage the Request for Proposal (RFQ) process including tool modifications or new parts.
Coordinate with Tenneco Corporation legal team to ensure contractual obligations minimize risk to the Company.

Develop thorough understanding of Capital Equipment and Machinery in the Ignition group and appropriate knowledge of the global supply base. - eg, white paper implementation
Develop together with Engineering/Advanced process team a global equipment standard
Serve as single-point-of-contact for BU Capex Sourcing and provide commercial expertise to the Group
Define strategies to enhance global Ignition Capital equipment footprint, understand new technologies, marketing/product strategies and optimisation of Group equipment/machinery in line with communization and development goals
Full responsibility for commercial negotiation with vendors
Segment and define supply base to support trends and drivers
Facilitate sourcing strategy meetings to cross-functional/cross-business audience, where appropriate
Provide recover mechanisms for cost drivers, when necessary
Serve as focal point for escalation of all supplier relationship issues.
Drive supplier approval process
Capitalize on all purchasing opportunities, future & current, to create the highest leverage
Set negotiation strategy and direction for negotiation settings, include appropriate team members
Manage cost recovery, as necessary
Enforce Federal-Mogul Corporation supplier requirements
As Contract Sponsor, negotiate, create, maintain & enforce all supplier contracts

* Determine contract levels and related criteria for Capex

Travel to suppliers and other global Company facilities as required.
Additional duties as assigned by plant manager and corporate purchasing
Each employee has the authority to initiate action to prevent a violation of the Integrity Policy.
All employees will abide by their location's EH&S policy endorsed by the local management, comply with the legal and other requirements and operational controls established under its EHSMS, work toward achieving established objectives and targets, and conform to procedures consistent with the ISO 14001 standard. An employee should report, and if necessary stop, any activity that does not conform to the policy or may injure himself/herself.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree in business or similar

EXPERIENCE:

5 or more years of buying experience in complex high volume environment.
Experience as a supervisor in same or similar function.
Knowledge of purchasing regulations and laws.
Familiarity and technical competence with purchase management software and/or automated procurement systems.
Solid working knowledge of current IT technologies, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. SAP and/or PLEX experience is preferred
Excellent contract management skills
Effective negotiation skills.
Ability to deal tactfully with vendors, suppliers, and contractors.
General knowledge of accounting and finance, marketing, and logistics.
Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented environment
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.