Procurement Manager

POSITION SUMMARY:  The Procurement Manager will work closely with the Procurement Team, Creative, Design Development and Project Management Strategic Business Units to estimate, purchase and coordinate manufacturing of project related items with Miller Zell manufacturing partners. The position will also be responsible for rolling up costs to share with internal business partners, using approved Miller Zell practices and standards to ensure cost effective production of items required for each client/project.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Negotiate and obtain quotes from domestic and international vendors, prepare cost estimates, issue purchase orders, and communicate effectively with all stakeholders.
• Work with others in procurement on best practices for sourcing, process, reviewing details, and managing organizing information.
• Purchasing can include North America and internationally.
• Demonstrates principled leadership and sound business ethics; shows consistency among principles, values, and behavior; builds trust with others through own authenticity and follows-through on commitments; driving results and success; conveying a sense of urgency.
• Understanding of, and experience in the use of the procurement process and best practices including developing vendor analysis, sourcing strategy and vendor strategy development (domestic and international).

• Work directly with suppliers to build strategic partnerships and assist managing negotiations when necessary. Work with procurement team and cross functionally on strategic partner negotiations and relations.
• Work with designers/design development/installation services and vendors to solve design, installation, and production problems and make suggestions for design development and value engineering.
• Search for new vendors and qualify them for production capabilities, cost effectiveness and quality control.
• Monitor costs and continually strives for cost reduction and increased profit margins
• Prepare and issue purchase orders, bill of materials, work orders and change orders
• Ensure quality control and on-time delivery.
• Assist in the coordination of logistics issues, packaging and shipping of products/projects at vendors and MZ warehouses.
• Punctuality and regular attendance are required on the job.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:  Bachelor’s Degree from a 4-year college or University in Business or equivalent experience.

Experience:  Minimum 3-10 years in purchasing, negotiating, and estimating. Previous experience working for POP, Store Fixture, Display or custom fabrication environments preferred. You will need to have experience managing custom fabrication suppliers.

Special Skills/Qualifications:         Ability to read and interpret store layouts, and engineering/architectural drawings is required, Basic inventory control knowledge is required, project coordination Skills, Strong Communication skills. Must be able to travel as needed to include foreign countries thus a passport is required.