Purchasing Manager at DH Pace Company, Inc. in Olathe, Kansas

Job Description:

Description

DH Pace Company, Inc. in Olathe, Kansas, is seeking to hire a Purchasing Manager to join our team! We are looking for an energetic individual who thrives in a fast-paced sales and service environment. Successful candidates will have buying, purchasing, logistics, or procurement experience. Prior management experience is preferred, but we are willing to train the right person!

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversee a team of Buyers and Admins who purchase materials to ensure stock/order requests from contracts are processed and received in a timely manner.


• Manage the procurement request process; confirming orders placed with vendors are accurate and in accordance with pricing/discount structures.


• Manage vendor relationships.


• Negotiate pricing extensions and price protection initiatives with key vendors.


• Develop processes to enhance purchasing capabilities.


• Manage procurement metrics to ensure good distribution of work amongst the team (and to identify trends in purchasing history).


• Ensure inquiries associated with orders are immediately addressed, including shipment date, type of freight, material handling, and all other inquires.


• Maintain constant communication with vendors and project managers to expedite shipping of materials and maintain shipping receiving expectations.


• Overseeing order acknowledgement processing for product correctness, quantity accuracy, pricing verification, and invoice compliance.


• Communicate daily with project management group relative to any issues that might negatively impact customers’ satisfaction. 


• Hire, train, and develop staff and manage personnel to include performance evaluations.


• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Job Requirements:

• Ideal experience will include: buying, purchasing, logistics, or management


• Computer proficiency required including strong background in MRP/ERP or bar-code systems


• Must have excellent communication skills and be able to interact professionally with contacts, internal and external, at all levels

Why DH Pace?

DH Pace Company is a distribution, construction and service organization offering a complete range of door and door related products and commercial security products. The company is privately owned and has been in operation over 95 years!  We have 50+ US offices in 24 states with 2023 company-wide sales of $1 billion.  

Our mission is to enhance the communities we serve by improving the safety, convenience, and aesthetics of the buildings where we live, work, and play. Our foundation of values represents who we are and what we stand for. Values are never situational or circumstantial, they are always and forever. Our core values are R.I.S.E. Respect, Integrity, Service, and Excellence.

Our benefit offerings include:

• Medical, dental, and vision options: Available on the 1st day of the month following your start date!


• Paid time off plan: 13 days accrued annually during your 1st year; 16 days accrued during your 2nd year!


• Paid Holidays: New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day


• Floating Holidays: Up to 2 floating holidays per year


• Competitive compensation: Including annual performance evaluations!


• 401k retirement plan: Including an employer match!


• Company paid: Life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability

 Successful completion of references, employment verifications, background check, and drug screen required in advance of hire.

DH Pace Company, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies.  Any resume submitted to any employee of DH Pace Company, Inc. without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of DH Pace Company, Inc.  Please, no phone calls or emails.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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