Senior Production Purchasing Manager

This is a Full Time Job

The Senior Production Purchasing Manager will be responsible for supporting Production Operations with purchase requests from key departmental stakeholders, soliciting price quotes from vendors, creating purchase orders, managing goods receipts, and reconciling outstanding purchase transactions. This position reports to the Senior Manager, Accounting Operations. You will work in an office setting on a hybrid schedule but will at times need to fulfill travel requirements and work on site.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Manage a team of 2-4 purchasing managers, ensuring proper protocol and timely issue resolution
• Partner with Production Operations staff to understand business needs and purchase appropriately
• Convert vendor price quotes into Purchase Orders
• Raise timely and accurate Purchase Orders for time-sensitive Production needs
• Goods Receipt Purchase Orders, ensuring timely financial recognition
• Reconcile outstanding purchase transactions for timely resolution
• Research, analyze and determine spend data to identify cost saving opportunities, with an emphasis on production and operations spend
• Partner with Operations, Finance, Procurement personnel to maintain communication channels across key stakeholder departments to provide efficient and effective purchasing support
• Partner and facilitate effective sourcing methods and track & maintain vendor KPIs to ensure vendor compliance
• Ensure product and service quality remain paramount during all vendor discussions and negotiations
• Ensure timely submission of documents for new vendor setup
• Develop strong vendor relationships, ensuring win-win results
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and train various team members
• Train on procedures and testing related to system upgrades
• Special projects and tasks as assigned
• Some travel will be required

QUALIFICATIONS
• Extensive experience managing direct reports manager and below
• Prior media and entertainment production experience preferred
• Familiarity with festival equipment and/or event management is a plus
• Must have previous purchasing or vendor relations experience
• Bachelor's degree in business or technical field
• Understanding of fundamental finance and business concepts
• Ability to analyze and support vendor negotiations
• Proven ability to navigate through Excel (i.e., V-look up, pivot table, formula driven, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to work in a team environment
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities

WORK ENVIRONMENT
• Must be able to tolerate loud noise levels and busy environments
• Must be willing to travel to work and travel to events during holidays, evening and weekend hours, as required, to meet deadlines and work events

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization, which does not require sponsorship by Insomniac for a visa.

Hiring Pay Range: $85,000.00 - $100,000.00 USD

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Insomniac strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

HIRING PRACTICES

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Insomniac recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Insomniac may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, Internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.