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A Barry-Wehmiller Packaging Systems company, Pneumatic Scale Angelus maintains a major market position in the supply of wet and dry fillers, cappers, can seamers, labelers, centrifuges and change parts for the pharmaceutical, personal care, food, beverage, canning and household products industries worldwide. Our custom-engineered product lines include Hema, Mateer and Pneumatic Scale fillers; Consolidated, Pneumatic Scale and TC cappers; Angelus and Closetech seamers; Burt and MTS labelers; Carr and Centritech centrifuges; onTrack orienters and wet-case detectors; and Zepf change parts and storage solutions.
Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

• Work with platform and other divisions to identify and implement or align best practices.
• Negotiate pricing and update costs as necessary
• Work with suppliers for improvement opportunities in terms of cost, quality, delivery, and lead time.
• Maintain positive vendor relationships.
• Engage with platform and commodity managers to drive cost savings and cross-divisional sourcing projects.
• Coordinate any supporting team members who can be assigned to him
• Proactively work with Operations and Quality/Engineering to ensure suppliers are meeting the requirements of the company (delivery, quality, cost, etc.).
• Resolve pricing and receiving discrepancies with vendors, coordinate with Accounts Payable Department.
• Key metrics are supplier OTD, Inventory turns, supplier lead time, velocity, working capital.
• Perform all other duties as assigned or required.
• Facilitate supplier engagement and long-term supplier relationships.
• Create and execute sourcing project plans.
• Collaborate with peer team members in supply chain department and work with them as a team
• Conduct supplier capacity and capability analyses.
• Serves as liaison between the company and suppliers.
• Work closely with new product development team: Lead the sourcing activities in support of new products.
• Develop and apply analytical, problem solving, team building, planning and change management skills.
• Lead supply chain related projects, when required and appointed because of his skills/knowledges
• Drive expansion of purchasing best practices.
• Lead data integrity improvement in our business systems.
• Analyze requirements (both system generated and manual) to ensure timely placement of purchase orders for goods/services. Place purchase orders using MRP system.
• Expedite existing purchase orders, as necessary.
• Discuss defective or unacceptable goods with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action
• Contact vendors with requests for quotes, delivery information, and cross references.

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Extremely organized and detailed oriented with excellent follow-up
• Proficient in PC applications to include: MS Office
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• MRP and Supply Chain knowledge

• CPM certification desired

Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V This organization uses E-Verify.
Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments. PneumaticScaleAngelus