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Purchasing Manager (Temporary / Contract)
REMOTE
El Segundo, California, United States
Finance
Contract
Description
Tend to think outside the box? Want to be part of a radical space buzzing with innovation? We’re your kind of people. eSalon is the industry leader in personalized hair care and color, with over 11 million orders shipped worldwide. We’re part beauty, part tech, part science and welcome like minded iniduals to join us in disrupting the way people think about beauty.
eSalon is looking for an experienced Purchasing Manager to fill in for a temporary leave of absence. This inidual will ramp up quickly to primarily oversee the acquisition of components, raw materials, and packaging needed for the production of eSalon’s custom formulated hair color and hair care products. This role is fully remote and will work within a small purchasing team. This a contract position.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Manage the company’s day-to-day purchasing activities ensuring Company performance standards are met.
- Ensure overall availability of raw materials, components, and finished goods.
- Ensure internal documentation and system procedures are timely and accurately completed.
- Create, monitor and maintain the tracking and reporting of key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
- Utilize production forecasts to determine quantities of every item that needs to be replenished and oversee their procurement.
- Coordinate with Inventory and Warehouse teams to perform replenishment planning of materials.
- Lead resolution and mitigation plans of materials issues.
- Build and maintain a network of vendors to ensure business continuity and future growth.
- Negotiate with vendors to reduce cost of new and existing items and establish quality guidelines.
- Issue Purchase Orders.
- Arrange for the transportation of purchased items.
- Respond to internal turnaround time goals, customer / company expectations, and customer / company feedback.
- Review inventory on a weekly basis to understand shortages in kits and developer at eSalon.
- Prepare monthly build plan for Mexico kitting facilities and Bright for developer.
- Review shortage reports from kitting facilities and developer filler to identify which components need to be allocated to their locations.
- Create packing lists and setup transportation from BYX/Adwins/eSalon to kitting facilities and developer filler.
Requirements
- Must be authorized to work in the US for any employer.
- Must be available to work a 40 hour workweek and be available from 9AM – 3PM, PST for cross-functional meetings.
- 3+ years of previous experience in a purchasing role with raw materials.
- Commit to a minimum of four months in the role.
- Expert with sourcing and vendor management.
- Successful negotiation and forecasting skills required.
- Experience in inventory control and replenishment required.
- Ability to gather and analyze data and come up with appropriate solutions to material issues.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability work independently in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment.
- Excellent attention to detail.
Benefits
- Fully remote position
- Competitive hourly rate