Purchasing Manager

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As our Purchasing Manager, you’ll play air traffic controller by ensuring all the components needed to build Seakeeper Ride systems arrive as scheduled to meet our production plan. You’ll ensure timely, cost-effective, and quality sourcing from approved suppliers while maintaining strong vendor relationships and optimizing inventory levels. Working closely with our supply partners, you’ll proactively mitigate delivery risks, provide real-time status updates, and generally keep your finger on the pulse of our supply chain. You’ll make an immediate impact at Seakeeper and support our Operations team by:

• Maintaining accurate purchase, pricing, shipping, delivery, and inventory records, proactively identifying and reporting shortage risks


• Optimizing working capital by ensuring schedules are adjusted to meet build schedules and inventory targets without excess


• Managing supplier performance, including quality, delivery, and cost metrics


• Collaborating with production, engineering, and quality teams to ensure material specifications and timelines are met


• Reviewing Engineering Change Notifications (ECN’s) and ensuring supply is aligned to avoid waste and off-cycle changes


• Strategizing cost reduction, component improvement and supplier expansion decisions


• Anticipating, communicating and executing major supply chain changes throughout the organization, including adjustments to the Bill of Material (BOM)


• Sourcing and negotiating with suppliers for components and packaging


• Negotiating and executing initiatives with current suppliers including volume discounts, process improvements, payment terms and customer service


• Building relationships with Seakeeper’s existing supply partner network while identifying and qualifying potential new supply partners

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Do you have a positive attitude, an eagerness to learn and the ability to hustle in a fast-paced environment? Then Seakeeper is the place for you! Here are a few other things you’ll need to succeed.

MUST-HAVES

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or related field


• 8+ years of progressive experience including
  
  
  
  • Purchasing for raw goods or components in a manufactured product
  
  
  • Creating, refining or automating purchasing processes
  
  
  • Exposure to procurement and supply chain management
  
  
  • Supplier negotiation
  
  


• Ferocious attention to detail and “won’t take no for an answer” attitude


• Passion for working and a history of lightning-fast responsiveness


• Be professional, responsive, resourceful, flexible and well-organized


• Strong verbal and written communication skills


• Be self-motivated with superior time management, multitasking, organizational and prioritization skills


• Strong command of Microsoft Office products


• Be results driven and of unquestionable integrity


• Ability to read, write and speak English fluently

NICE-TO-HAVES

• Experience in a hyper-growth, startup environment


• Previous experience working in NetSuite or a similar cloud-based ERP system


• A passion for boating or experience in the marine industry in a supply chain role

MORE DETAILS YOU'LL WANT TO KNOW

• You’ll be based onsite in our Ft. Myers, FL location, with a minimum of three days per week in office


• You’ll report to our Director of Operations


• Travel up to 30% of the time mostly visiting our supply partners and 3PL facility in Charlotte, NC

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE

It’s true that we make extraordinary products, but our favorite part about Seakeeper is our people! We love the culture we have built and are aggressively protective of our team atmosphere. This is why we value your cultural fit as equally as we value your technical contributions. With a palpable passion for what we do, we work hard, move fast and are constantly pushing (or should we say crushing) boundaries. That means there is no room for jerks!

We operate with the nimbleness and growth mindset of a scrappy startup. Throughout the organization, we take ownership and accountability for our ultimate team success by openly and actively seeking out constructive feedback on how we can improve. We believe great ideas can strike at any moment, and when you have one, you’re empowered to speak up!

Fast-paced and hands-on don’t even begin to describe what you’ll experience here. That means you have the freedom to make a difference and contribute to the larger goal, regardless of your position. The only constant at Seakeeper is change, and we thrive on it!

WHO WE ARE

71% of our Earth is covered by water and we want everyone to make the most of it. That’s why we are on a mission to create products that transform the boating experience with an organization that employees want to work for, customers want to buy from, and vendors want to partner with.

Founded in 2008, we have grown from a start-up operation to the worldwide leader in marine motion control. The journey began with our gyrostabilization technology, which eliminates up to 90% of boat roll and creates a land-like experience on the water. This technology went from an unknown commodity to a must-have boating requirement in the first decade. In 2022, we added another jaw-dropping technology to our portfolio with the launch of Seakeeper Ride, a first-of-its-kind Vessel Attitude Control System which eliminates underway pitch and roll, making time on the water safer and more comfortable for everyone onboard. In summary, we are in the business of creating gravity-defying products that completely change the way people spend their time on the water…and we are just getting started!

We have long runways with both of our technologies with new addressable markets on the horizon and drive to push the boundaries of what our technologies can do. With dedicated focus to each segment, in addition to shared leadership of each vertical, we can balance the different demands of each segment while providing a consist overall vision and direction of the company.

Ready for a new challenge in a fast-paced environment? Want to help us disrupt an industry? Come on and apply, we are ready for you!

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