Manager, Purchasing and Stores (Clarendon, SC)

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is seeking a Purchasing & Stores Manager to support our facility in Clarendon, SC. This position will manage local procurement, storeroom operations, and supervise storeroom personnel. This role may also be asked to participate in centralized sourcing teams, special projects, and contract negotiations. The ideal candidate is self-directed, works with a high sense of urgency, and possesses the ability to solve problems and collaborate with other disciplines to meet the needs of operations.

Location: Onsite at Clarendon, SC

Travel: Up to 10% travel required

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support our facilities. The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.

What You Will Do

• Sourcing, purchasing, negotiating, and managing inventory of equipment, MRO, services and supplies from external vendors.
• Streamlining and implementing sustainable procurement processes
• Working with requestors to understand requirements, specifications, services, and timing.
• Managing appropriately and implanting the use of national, regional, and local contract agreements for goods and services.
• Identify and analyze opportunities to competitively bid local spending to achieve the lowest total cost of ownership.
• Optimizes working capital and on hand inventory levels.
• Works with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business unit goals to deliver long term value.
• Looks to drive value creation through innovation.
• Supervising storeroom personnel.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams at the facility and headquarters to implement corporate initiatives.
• Ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, stores and environmental policies and procedures.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 2+ years of procurement experience
• Supervisory experience
• 3+ years of purchasing, manufacturing operations, or supply chain related experience
• Inventory or storeroom management experience, including experience with inventory management computer systems
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, & Outlook
• Willing to travel up to 10%

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain or finance
• Project management experience
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Experience negotiating with local, regional or national contracts

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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