Procurement Leader - Raw Material

First Quality was founded in 1989 and, in nearly three decades, has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.

We are looking for an experienced Procurement Leader – Raw Materials for our state-of-the-art First Quality Baby Products facility located in Macon, GA.

The key to this position will be a deep understanding and experience of sourcing and spend management processes and methodology and the ability to enact the sourcing process with cross functional teams.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Follows necessary GMP, FDA, and ISO regulations/guidelines.
• Develops and coordinates raw material strategy across the FQ-AHG companies.
• Secures and analyzes raw material quotations; negotiates prices and terms with suppliers, and recommends suppliers with respect to quality, service, innovation, and cost competitiveness.
• Manages strategic raw material supplier relationships.
• Manages the activities and performance of raw material buyers.
• Performs risk assessments for raw material commodity segments and develops an action plan with involvement of Finance, Product Development, and Operations to mitigate risk to First Quality
• Represents raw material procurement on Business Unit Lead Teams
• Reviews raw material needs with plant planners/buyers/operations to ensure their needs are being met while adhering to overall raw material strategy.
• Manages raw material supply agreement development and implementation processes.
• Monitors key raw material exception reports to maintain system accuracy
• Tracks raw material price indices (i.e., RISI, CDI, IHS, etc.)
• Participates in supplier audits including when / who should be audited.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Completes and communicates supplier performance evaluations in the form of a formal supplier scorecard.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Good communication and facilitation skills.
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Ability to plan, lead, and organize several initiatives at one time.
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex data and information.
• Must be customer focused, team oriented, self-motivated, and results oriented.
• 3-5 years’ related experience preferred.

Excellent compensation and benefits, which are effective the first day of employment!

For immediate consideration, please go to the Join Us section at www.firstquality.com

to complete our online application.

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.