DIS-TRAN Steel Internal Transfer Portal - Purchasing Manager

We are looking for a current employee who is ready to lead the purchasing function and help strengthen the way DIS-TRAN Steel manages purchasing processes, suppliers, commercial commitments, financial controls, and service to internal customers. Reporting to the EVP, the Purchasing Manager will lead purchasing team members and may have up to five direct reports.

This is a strong opportunity for an employee who understands how our operations work, can lead people and processes, and is comfortable making decisions that affect cost, delivery, quality, supplier performance, and material availability. Experience gained in purchasing, supply chain, planning, inventory, receiving, operations, engineering, quality, maintenance, accounting, project coordination, or process improvement may transfer well to this role.

COMPETENCIES:

• Implementing Vision and Values: Keeps the organization's vision, values, ethical standards, and business objectives at the forefront of purchasing decisions and actions.

• Safety Leadership: Recognizes conditions that affect employee, contractor, and visitor safety; reinforces required controls; and promotes safe behavior throughout the organization.

• Purchasing Leadership: Establishes clear purchasing priorities, controls, service expectations, and accountability for the team and purchasing process.

• Commercial Judgment: Evaluates pricing, terms, lead time, capacity, service, quality, risk, and total cost and makes decisions within delegated authority.

• Supplier Management: Builds professional supplier relationships, monitors performance, addresses gaps, and supports reliable supply and continuous improvement.

• Customer Focus: Understands internal customer requirements and provides timely, accurate purchasing support while balancing organizational priorities, policies, and controls.

• Managing Detail: Maintains accurate supplier, quotation, approval, purchase-order, pricing, delivery, invoice, rebate, forecast, and performance information.

• Planning and Prioritization: Balances routine purchases, urgent requirements, supplier constraints, team workload, deadlines, and changing operational priorities.

• Communication and Collaboration: Communicates requirements, decisions, commitments, risks, and corrective actions clearly with employees, leaders, suppliers, and cross-functional partners.

• Accountability and Follow-Through: Takes ownership of purchasing results, team performance, process compliance, supplier commitments, and agreed improvement actions.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Purchasing Process and Controls

• Own and administer the purchasing process, including approved policies, procedures, approval limits, documentation requirements, supplier controls, and system workflows.

• Develop, document, communicate, and improve purchasing procedures, standard work, forms, templates, and controls.

• Train employees and affected departments on purchasing requirements, monitor compliance, address gaps, and maintain records that support authorized reviews.

Team Leadership and Daily Purchasing Operations

• Lead purchasing team members by setting priorities, assigning work, balancing workloads, providing coaching, and maintaining accountability for timely and accurate results.

• Review purchasing queues, open orders, overdue commitments, pricing changes, shortages, discrepancies, and escalated requests, then coordinate timely action.

• Approve supplier selections, purchase orders, changes, exceptions, and other purchasing transactions within assigned authority and company policy.

• Ensure purchase orders and supporting records accurately reflect approved pricing, quantities, items, specifications, freight, delivery, payment, and documentation requirements.

• Coordinate urgent needs, remove obstacles, resolve escalated issues, and communicate significant risks or decisions to leadership and affected teams.

Supplier Financial and Performance Management

• Evaluate suppliers based on capability, pricing, terms, capacity, lead time, delivery, responsiveness, service, quality, risk, and total cost.

• Lead supplier discussions and negotiations involving pricing, terms, delivery commitments, service requirements, and corrective actions.

• Monitor supplier performance, address recurring gaps, and coordinate recovery plans, corrective actions, escalation, or approved sourcing changes.

• Partner with the Business Unit Controller and Accounting on purchasing commitments, cost projections, invoice controls, cash-management information, payment requirements, and system needs.

• Oversee the timely resolution of pricing, quantity, receipt, invoice, freight, tax, payment-term, credit, and supplier-account discrepancies.

Systems Data and Improvement

• Ensure accurate supplier, item, pricing, lead-time, order, delivery, rebate, freight, approval, and purchasing data in Epicor and other approved systems.

• Develop purchasing metrics and use supplier information to identify trends, risks, recurring issues, cost opportunities, and process gaps.

• Lead approved improvements involving standardized part numbers, master data, electronic workflows, supplier integration, reporting, automation, and data quality.

 

WHAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED:

• You can lead employees with clear expectations, fair accountability, practical coaching, and consistent follow-through.

• You understand how purchasing decisions affect production, project schedules, cost, quality, inventory, cash flow, and internal customers.

• You can evaluate pricing, terms, lead times, supplier capability, service, quality, risk, and total cost before making or recommending a decision.

• You communicate clearly, address issues directly, and know when a decision or commitment should be escalated.

• You build productive relationships across departments and can improve a process without losing the controls the business requires.

REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in purchasing, procurement, supplier management, materials, supply chain, accounting, or a related business function.

• Experience supervising employees, leading a functional team, or directing cross-functional purchasing processes.

• Working knowledge of purchasing practices, supplier management, commercial terms, internal controls, documentation, and ethical requirements.

• Ability to evaluate supplier proposals, pricing, terms, lead times, service, quality, risk, and total cost and make sound decisions within assigned authority.

• Strong leadership, planning, negotiation, analytical, problem-solving, organizational, documentation, and communication skills.

• High attention to detail and the ability to manage confidential financial, supplier, employee, and business information professionally.

• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook and experience working in ERP, purchasing, inventory, accounts-payable, reporting, or related business systems.

Experience That Stands Out

• DIS-TRAN Steel experience involving purchasing, supply chain, materials, planning, inventory, receiving, operations, quality, maintenance, accounting, ERP data, or cross-functional process improvement.

• Experience with Epicor, MRP, supplier scorecards, electronic purchasing workflows, EDI, inventory planning, or master-data governance.

• Experience working with Accounting or Finance on cost forecasts, invoice controls, cash-management information, audits, credits, rebates, or supplier-account reconciliation.

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, accounting, engineering technology, operations, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

• APICS, ASCM, ISM, CPSM, CPIM, or related purchasing or supply-chain training or certification.

WHY CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITY:

This role provides the opportunity to lead an important business function and influence how DIS-TRAN Steel manages suppliers, purchasing decisions, financial commitments, data, and service across the company. You will gain broader exposure to executive leadership, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Accounting, and other teams while helping improve cost, delivery, compliance, and supplier performance.

It is a strong next step for an employee who knows our business, is ready to lead people and processes, and wants greater responsibility for decisions and improvements that affect the organization.