Head of Procurement

Headquartered in Dallas, the firm is employee-owned. Consultants are staffed across industries early on, then specialise after a few years.

Position summary:

Looking for a Head of Procurement who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This role mixes day-to-day purchasing with sourcing projects, including RFQs and supplier changes. We need a buyer who pushes back on price increases with data and keeps the production schedule fed. Our headquarters is in Dallas, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We hire in Ireland through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Job duties:

• Identify cost savings and report them monthly.
• Qualify new suppliers with quality and finance.
• Resolve invoice and receiving discrepancies with accounts payable.
• Issue purchase orders from approved requisitions and MRP signals in SAP.
• Track supplier performance on delivery, quality and cost.
• Review supplier price increase requests against commodity indexes.
• Coordinate returns and supplier corrective actions with quality.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of purchasing or procurement experience.
• Comfortable pushing suppliers on dates and price.
• Organised with dozens of open orders at a time.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, NetSuite or another ERP purchasing module.

Nice to have:

• Manufacturing or direct materials background.
• Spanish or Mandarin for supplier communication.
• CPSM or CPIM certification.
• Spend analytics in Power BI.

Salary range: €88,000 - €111,000 per annum

Why work with us:

• Performance bonus.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Home office setup budget.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Jefferson Consulting.