Purchasing Manager in Lincoln

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Purchasing Manager

Department: Supply Chain

Updated: 9/8/2025

Job Summary

A purchasing Manager oversees all aspects of a company's procurement process, from sourcing and acquiring goods to managing their receipt and storage. This dual role is critical for maintaining an efficient supply chain, controlling costs, and ensuring a continuous flow of materials and products for a business. They typically lead a team of purchasing agents and receiving clerks.

Duties and Responsibilities

Purchasing Responsibilities

• Supplier Management & Sourcing: Retaining or selecting new suppliers and vendors. Build and maintain strong.
• Negotiation & Contracts: Negotiate contracts and terms with suppliers to secure the best possible prices, quality, and delivery schedules.
• Procurement Strategy: Develop and implement purchasing policies and procedures that align with the company's financial goals and operational needs.
• Market Analysis & Forecasting: Stay up-to-date on market trends and price fluctuations to make informed purchasing decisions and forecast future demand to prevent shortages or excess inventory.
• Purchase Orders: Oversee the creation and management of purchase orders, ensuring they are accurate and processed in a timely manner.
• Standard Operating Procedures: Develop and maintain SOP of the department.

Receiving Responsibilities

• Oversight of Incoming Shipments: Supervise the receiving department to ensure all incoming shipments are processed accurately and efficiently.
• Inspection & Quality Control: Coordinate the inspection of received goods to verify that they match the purchase order and meet quality standards. Responsible for addressing any discrepancies or damaged items with suppliers.
• Inventory Management: Work closely with the inventory and warehouse teams to ensure that all received goods are accurately documented and stored. Use inventory management systems to track stock levels.
• Workflow Optimization: Develop and implement best practices for receiving operations to improve efficiency, reduce processing time, and ensure a safe work environment.
• Record Keeping: Maintain detailed records of all incoming shipments, including costs, delivery times, and product performance.
• Standard Operating Procedures: Develop and maintain SOP of the department.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience: A bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain management, or a related field. Relevant work experience in a purchasing, procurement, or logistics role.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze financial data, market trends, and supplier performance to make data-driven decisions.
• Negotiation & Communication: Strong negotiation skills for securing favorable contracts. Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with suppliers and internal teams.
• Leadership: The ability to lead, mentor, and motivate a team of employees to achieve departmental goals.
• Attention to Detail: This role requires a high level of accuracy and meticulous attention to detail to ensure contracts, purchase orders, and inventory records are correct.

Work Environment

• This is a working manufacturing and production facility. As such this is a hot, dusty, loud area, and there are always moving parts. Caution and attention to your surroundings need to always be at the front of your mind as safety always starts with you.

• Primarily office-based with frequent engagement across departments and production teams

Travel

• May require occasional travel (<10%) for training, recruiting, or compliance functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee required to use hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. Talk and hear to communicate with others. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Disclaimer

The above statements are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the job requirements. Rather, they are intended to describe the general nature of the job. inExhaust reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities and qualifications required for this position. It is not all-inclusive, and the supervisor may be required to perform other duties as needed.

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