Manager Procurement - Supply Assurance & Control Tower (Manufacturing)

Location: Mossville, Illinois, United States; onsite five days a week. Occasional travel of less than 25% is required. Relocation assistance is not available.

Salary: $112,710–$169,060 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures equipment and solutions that support stronger, more sustainable communities.

What you will do

• Lead assurance-of-supply and control tower execution for urgent and emerging supplier constraints.
• Direct control tower leads and cross-functional stakeholders through influence across a matrixed organization.
• Identify recurring supplier issues and improve escalation, supplier management, and supply-assurance processes.
• Apply project and program management practices to track actions, owners, dependencies, decisions, escalations, and risks.
• Manage complex supplier, facility, procurement, and business challenges, facilitating decisions and trade-offs.
• Support supplier qualification, market analysis, negotiation, supplier quality, delivery, and issue resolution across Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and Engineering.

Requirements

• Knowledge of category management, spend analysis, market analysis, procurement data, goals, and KPIs.
• Knowledge of supplier-management processes for manufacturing suppliers, including investigating alternatives, resolving supplier issues, and meeting delivery and quality requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of purchasing policies, processes, technologies, and practices, with the ability to manage complex purchasing activities and solve difficult procurement problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including synthesizing complex information and communicating priorities and decisions to different audiences.
• Experience leading complex, high-visibility initiatives with multiple workstreams, competing priorities, dependencies, and stakeholders.
• Experience managing supplier constraints, capacity challenges, shortages, delivery issues, material availability, supplier recovery, or other supply-continuity risks in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in category procurement, strategic sourcing, site purchasing, facility procurement, manufacturing procurement, supplier management, or a related purchasing environment.
• Ability to align Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and other business functions while balancing competing priorities.
• Experience resolving complex supplier quality, delivery, capacity, or performance issues through root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Ability to identify patterns across supplier challenges and develop longer-term supply-risk mitigation strategies.
• Ability to communicate risks and recommendations to suppliers, business partners, and senior leaders.

Nice to have

• Previous people-leadership experience is preferred; demonstrated success leading complex projects, influencing stakeholders, and driving results through others is highly valued.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time onsite position with five-day-per-week office attendance.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, paid time off, parental and adoption benefits, disability benefits, and life insurance, subject to eligibility.
• 401(k) savings plan, HSA, FSAs, incentive bonus, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
• Career development and tuition reimbursement opportunities.
• Visa sponsorship, international assignments, and payroll transfers are not available.
• Employment offers require successful completion of a drug screen.