Mgr, Purchasing

**This is where you save and sustain lives**

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Establish, lead, and execute strategies, provide day to day operational direction to the direct report as necessary to ensure the teams deliver on their commitments.
- Provides timely and accurate information to senior management and the core team, regarding Inventory level projections and DOH, risk to supply chain if any, status and needs, accordingly.
- Develop inventory strategies for safety stock and inventory levels considering the impact in KPI’s and addressed to meet customers’ expectations on time.
- Work with functional management such as Supply Chain, Sourcing, Engineering and Quality to ensure communication and resources alignment, provides inputs to Sr Supply Chain Manager regarding team members’ performance.
- Generate, coordinate and execute projects with Supply Chain teams (Warehouse, Planning and Logistics), for improving the supply chain level and strength for Monterrey Site.
- Ensure aggressively realistic scheduling material planning and analisys are established with input and commitment from core-team members; risks are identified, managed and mitigated through the supply chain in order to achieve service level targets, Inventory targets, and freight budgets.
- Lead regular team meetings, set actions, tracking progress against plan, and managing risks to minimize impact to the KPI.
- E&O Monthly projections that provides triggering actions to avoid negative financial impact to the P&L in Monterrey, working in conjunction with finance team.
- Overall leadership on direct materials planning and procurement, responsible for a portfolio of direct global suppliers, management of planned raw material inputs vs outputs, and management of freight in budgets.
- Assure MMS team is trained according to the tasks they are performing.
- Keep documents as QS, BS, JA, updated according to continuous improvement projects are executed.
- Lead activities from MMS side, for audits and BOS/OMS.
- Develop the team strengths, train and work on their IDP for developing and increase the skills and knowledge level of the team.

**EXPERIENCE**:

- A minimum of 5 years of progressive leadership experience in supply chain, leading strategic initiatives with, suppliers, continuous improvement processes.
- Experience with projects administration, material planning, MRP, Kanban, supplier negotiations.

**QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS**:

- ERP systems experience, min/max, Kanban, and materials planning.
- Experience on budget preparation for freight.
- Negotiation skills
- Deal with ambiguity
- Team work
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Communications skills
- Focus on drive fast actions
- Results oriented with integrity
- Bilingual (English - Spanish)

**Reasonable Accommodations**

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