Procurement & Supply Chain Specialist at Rensa Filtration, Inc. – Aurora, Illinois

Title: Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist

Location: Aurora, IL

Reports to: Manager of Customer Experience

Created by: Maribel Guel

About Rensa

Rensa Filtration is a family of companies dedicated to air filtration. By investing in innovation and the people who drive it, we manufacture, market, and distribute best-in-class solutions in the United States and Canada that keep environments safe and industries thriving.

What We Do

• We improve the environment - making indoor and outdoor environments cleaner by eliminating process contaminants through superior products and media.

• We drive innovation in air filtration – by investing in the people and companies that develop the solutions that today’s world demands – to bring those innovative products to market so that our customers can bring maximum value and safety to the facilities and businesses they serve.

SUMMARY

The PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN SPECIALIST will be responsible for sourcing goods and services, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery of products to meet business needs.

ESSENTIAL POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Directs materials planning for made & purchased items based on production demand. Includes use of MRP, as well as determination of appropriate target stock levels, where necessary, based on historical consumption or usage forecasts.
• Set up trucks and maintain current relationships.
• Maintaining effective relationships with key suppliers that reflect both a customer and vendor perspective.
• Monitor daily production/activity workflow internally and externally across multiple departments while proactively solving issues before they impact the company.
• Interface with Operations, Customer Service, Sales, and Engineering.
• Negotiate price, quantity, and delivery schedules with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery and eliminate potential breaks in the supply chain.
• Obtain and provide a detailed assessment of quotes to drive supplier selection.
• Provide solutions to improve company spending and outsourcing.
• Lead regularly scheduled meetings with internal upper management, team members, vendors, and third-party affiliates to solve any issues that may arise as well as to discover new opportunities.
• Develop and implement business process procedures. Able to write work instructions.
• Forecast material needs, pricing, market trends, current and potential customer demands. Create and implement real-time dashboards.
• Purchase all raw materials and schedule the workflow for in-house operations as well as four tollers (3rd party manufacturing sites) manufacturing sequences and lead times.
• Work with customers on supplied parts
• Frequently go to the production floor to perform visual audits of raw and finished materials and develop buying/planning strategies to purchase and arrange timely deliveries.
• Resolve complex delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases and invoices.
• Manage complex and project plans and purchasing systems, reviewing requisitions and supply plans for domestic and international purchases.
• Negotiate prices, terms, and quality requirements; requests for quotes and assisting in the development of new supply sources; evaluating market conditions.
• Analyze and forecast future production changes.
• Ensure that we meet all ISO9001 standards and assist in audits.
• Manage twelve hundred parts and determine safety stock levels based on forecasts and customer needs.
• Provide quotes and material information to our engineering and sales departments.
• Evaluate open work orders expeditiously to maintain production schedules through the ERP/MRP.
• Resolving material quality issues and implementing schedule recovery.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in administration, Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field preferred but not required.
• Proven experience in sourcing processes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• A thorough understanding of sourcing methodologies.
• Sound time management and organizational skills.
• Logistics experience and freight negotiation experience is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to resolving issues
• Demonstrate high level of written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to communicate information, ideas, procedures, test results and processes both internally and externally.
• Ability to work well with a team as well as independently.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the proven ability to work well with all levels of management and staff.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to access and navigate the production facility.
• Able to lift 20 lbs. and be on the production floor as needed.