Senior Procurement Manager

Ensuring Charts Success

We are seeking a strong hands-on Procurement Manager to lead and integrate material management activities at our Tulsa OK manufacturing facility. This role represents a step-change in leadership capability and will play a critical role in bringing together multiple business units (including D&S and Cryo) under a common disciplined materials operating model.

This position will serve as a working foreman and people leader responsible not only for directing the team but also for actively participating in sourcing purchase order execution plant operations support and logistics coordination. The Procurement Manager will lead a team of approximately 5 direct reports with the opportunity to expand scope and organizational responsibility over time as the operation continues to mature.

Success in this role requires a leader who is comfortable on the shop floor skilled in stakeholder management and grounded in warehouse and inventory fundamentals while also capable of operating at a higher strategic level across business units.

What Will You Do

Provide daytoday leadership for materials purchasing and logistics activities across the facility ensuring alignment across all supported business units.

Act as a handson leader directly supporting sourcing activities supplier engagement and purchase order creation as needed to ensure continuity of operations.

Lead and develop a team of materials professionals providing clear direction coaching and accountability while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Drive effective stakeholder engagement with Operations Engineering Quality Finance and Program teams to align material availability with production and customer commitments.

Manage the endtoend procurement process including supplier selection negotiation and performance management to ensure quality cost and delivery objectives are met.

Establish and maintain strong supplier relationships identifying opportunities for improved commercial terms lead time reduction and risk mitigation.

Oversee inventory planning and control ensuring material availability while minimizing excess obsolescence and working capital exposure.

Partner closely with production leadership to support realistic production schedules based on material readiness and capacity constraints.

Coordinate shipping and receiving activities working with logistics providers to ensure safe timely and costeffective movement of materials and finished goods.

Ensure accurate documentation and transactional discipline including purchase orders receiving inventory transactions and shipping records.

Support and reinforce standard work ethical sourcing and process discipline across materials logistics and plant support activities.

Identify opportunities to standardize and integrate processes across business units while respecting unique operational needs.

Champion continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety quality delivery cost and inventory performance.

Adhere to Company Standards and Values

Meet deadlines for assignments

Interact effectively and professionally with operators supervisors managers engineering and external partners

Lead with credibility accountability and a bias for action

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require

Office and Manufacturing Plant Environment

Lift up to 20 lbs.

Sitting standing stooping bending other movement as necessary

Manufacturing Plant required PPE when necessary

Your Experience Should Be...

Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management Business Engineering Operations or a related field preferred but not required with equivalent experience.

Prior experience with leading a team preferably more than 5 years.

Progressive experience in materials management purchasing or supply chain leadership within a manufacturing or industrial environment.

Demonstrated ability to lead people while remaining handson in daytoday execution.

Strong foundational knowledge of warehouse operations inventory control and material flow.

Working knowledge of JDE (JD Edwards) ERP systems including purchasing inventory and material transactions.

Experience working across multiple internal stakeholders and business units.

Solid understanding of procurement processes supplier management and logistics coordination.

Proven ability to prioritize problemsolve and make decisions in a fastpaced plant environment.

APICS CPIM CSCP Lean or Six Sigma experience desired but not required.

Experience with ERP/MRP systems in a manufacturing environment is preferred.

Our Benefits Package...

Chart provides a comprehensive offering of benefits to full-time employees including medical dental and vision benefits 401k with an employer match disability and life insurance benefits.