Imagine when
You are a vital member of our growth-minded, industry leading, innovative, brand-driven, global employee-owned company. You are challenged to grow, expected to challenge others, are part of something much bigger than yourself, and leave an indelible legacy through the people your life has impacted.
As a part of our growing supply chain and planning team, you will source our award-winning brands, CAMO, PRO-FIT and STINGER. Partnering with our vendors, you will proactively manage the purchasing of key product categories.
And most importantly, while other things are growing around you, you grow as a person. How cool is that?
Your assignment
You will be responsible for purchasing products and ensuring their on-time delivery to meet the demands of the business. As the first point of contact for suppliers in your assigned categories, you are responsible for ensuring all products are at the right place at the right time, for the right price and quality.
In partnership with our Strategic Sourcing Specialists, you will gain understanding of supplier partnerships and pricing to achieve desired quality, timing, and price results.
Essential duties:
- Provide oversight and day to day management of assigned product categories.
- Complete daily assigned tasks on the Buyer Task Summary List to desired level of quality.
- Lead the effort to review supplier performance and make recommendations for sourcing strategies, in partnership with Strategic Sourcing Specialists and the Supply Chain Manager.
- Maintain databases, tools, and systems to support sound analysis and decision-making processes.
- Manage PO placement, warehouse rebalancing, repack orders, and track through facility delivery.
- Maintain a consistent supply of products to meet current and future demands.
- Participate and support cross functional projects and initiatives including, but not limited to, supply chain improvements, new product developments, and strategic sourcing reviews.
- Monitor actual performance against forecasts and analyze variances, providing input for future resource allocation and sales planning.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required skills:
- Act in accordance with our purpose, 8 character traits, and cornerstones.
- Demonstrated capability in continuous improvement.
- High level of business etiquette and professionalism.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making.
- Extraordinary attention to detail, while meeting deadlines.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational and self-directing skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other relevant software applications.
Success criteria:
- Maintain company goals for fill rates (97%) or above for all categories of items.
- Achieve cost reduction goals as established during the annual planning process.
- Meet the requirements and achieve desired outcomes of the “Buyer Task Summary” which is a breakdown of daily and weekly tasks that must be completed to ensure a proper “planning cycle”.
- Maintain and manage POs from order placement to arrival (ship dates, ETA’s and pricing discrepancies).
- Acceptable completion of duties in a manner consistent with National Nail’s values and culture.
- Successful collaboration with other departments to deliver organizational goals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business management, or engineering.
- 3+ years of Supply Chain / Sourcing experience preferred.
- Be an outstanding person and teammate, elevating those around you.
About us
We are an employee-owned company and a proud part of the American building materials industry for nearly 60 years. We have a storied history of innovation, which many say is in our DNA. We agree. From product to brand, to sourcing to customer-centric solutions, we constantly ask the “what, why and how” questions that many are afraid to ask.
Our core brands of CAMO, PRO-FIT, and STINGER are the “asked for brands” in their respective segments and can be found at the finest names in the LBM, Roofing, Home Center, Distribution and STAFDA channels of the building industry and more recently, through our E-Commerce presence.
Our brand users are the hardworking folks who build things with their hands, and just like us, are business owners. They build our homes, our decks, install our roofs, and depend on our brands to support them in delivering a job well done.
Our company's reason for existing
Whether supporting our customers, suppliers, employee-owners and their families or the communities in which we live and work, our purpose is simple; inspire whoever we engage with to help them become better. Better people, families, businesses, and ultimately leave better the communities in which we live. We get this is a moonshot reason for existing. Yet it is one we are committed to.
Our culture is characterized as
- Servant focused.
- Founded on Four Cornerstones, 8 character traits, and a simple operating philosophy of Serve • Better • Value • Fun.
- High standard, embraced by a dedicated team of employee-owners who enjoy the fruits of hard work while having a “bit of fun” along the way.
- Growth-minded, driving the intentional investments in developing our people, our customers, and our communities.
- Innovative.
So, if this is an assignment, culture, brands, and industry you desire to explore further, contact us. Your new adventure awaits.
