Purchasing and Stores Manager - Cumberland City

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a talented leader to serve as Manager, Purchasing and Stores, with both strategic and tactical purchasing and inventory experience. Reporting to the Group Manager for Gypsum, with strong customer relationship at the site, this role leads the local purchasing and storeroom function, including one direct storeroom leader. The ideal candidate has proven supervisory experience, a track record of creating value by building strong relationships with a diverse customer base, and a principled, entrepreneurial mindset. In this role, you will manage local purchasing and inventory processes, supervise the team, and lead change-balancing priorities and developing the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement ("SS&P") organization to deliver both near-term impact and long-term value. This position is pivotal in ensuring the profitable execution of purchasing and inventory strategies.

This is an onsite role based at our Cumberland City, TN facility.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement ("SS&P") organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procuring the critical supplies and materials that support more than 140 locations across the US. The SS&P organization is currently undergoing an exciting transformation where we are partnering with our business partners and leveraging best practices to build internal capabilities that uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant spend and efficiency opportunities. This effort is a critical element in Georgia-Pacific's continuous transformation. It is an exciting time to be part of a growing team and at the center of the transformation to help mold the future state of the SS&P organization!

What You Will Do

• Manage and lead leveraging Principle-Based Management and role of a supervisor (create inclusive environment, build high performing team, help employees self-actualize)
• Organize the team to leverage comparative advantage to execute standard work processes and achieve disciplined operations in Sourcing Execution to maximize results for GP.
• Manage and be accountable for Gypsum site spending against defined buying channels, category strategies and financial controls.
• Ensure purchasing and inventory departments are disciplined, optimized, reliable, support a defined asset maintenance work process and are supported by corporate leadership and mill operation teams.
• Manages sourcing, procuring, negotiating, contracting, and managing inventory of equipment, MRO parts, services, and supplies through appropriate procurement practices, total cost of ownership and compliance guidelines.
• Actively participates as key member of the leadership team at the facility to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business unit goals to deliver long term value.
• Proactively partner with key stakeholders-including Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and SS&P's Category, Sourcing, and Inventory Management teams-and collaborate across facility and headquarters functions to implement best practices and corporate initiatives.
• Utilize critical thinking skills to identify, analyze, and execute opportunities to streamline processes and achieve the lowest total cost of ownership on projects, storeroom inventory, and other purchases
• Oversee and validate storerooms and Inventory processes are disciplined, optimized, reliable, support defined asset strategies and are supported by corporate leadership and facility operation teams.
• Managing and working to improve the procure-to-pay process (including invoice reconciliation management) and training internal customers on their roles in these processes as needed

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree or at least 4 years of purchasing experience.
• At least 3 years of supervisory experience
• Experienced with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, & Outlook
• Demonstrated experience in driving procurement transformation and implementing changes

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience evaluating spending within operations while seeking ways to improve the purchasing of materials/services and related processes
• Experience in the manufacturing industry
• Purchasing, Inventory, Accounting management experience

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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