Senior Buyer

Imagine a company full of people who are so passionate about backpacking, camping and hiking, that it has become their career. That's us; and it could be you!

Join our team in Manchester, NH!

Johnson Outdoors Gear, home to Jetboil® & Eureka!®, some of the world’s most awesome and best-known outdoor recreation brands, creates amazing outdoor experiences - for adventurers, by adventurers.

Go for the fun of it with Eureka!® tents, cooking stoves and camping gear, designed to deliver ease of use and complete comfort. Wildly versatile Jetboil® cooking gear lets you enjoy hot, reviving meals wherever adventure takes you. We want people to get out and experience the great outdoors, and we create awesome gear to make sure people have the best experience possible from planning and packing to breaking camp.

Check us out on www.jetboil.com and www.eurekacamping.com, or find us on Facebook and Instagram!

As our Senior Buyer, you will be responsible for inventory management and procurement, managing vendor performance and compliance, identifying and resolving routine to complex purchasing issues and coordinating with suppliers to meet customer demand.

If you’re driven, detail-oriented and smart, someone who figures things out, this is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career in materials management! If you also love the challenge of working with both small and large business partners, and if you want to help to bring innovative, versatile and impressive products that are industry leaders to market, then you might just have what it takes to join Johnson Outdoors!

Get in touch with us today! Email us your resume!

What you will do:

• Manage day-to-day vendor performance and fulfillment. Ensure that vendors and suppliers comply with expectations, contract terms and the conditions of the contracts and to determine the need for changes. Clearly communicate expectations to suppliers and monitor contracts to ensure compliance.
• Purchase materials to ensure supplies meets the requirements to support demand and on-time delivery of domestic and global demand requirements.
• Identify potential issues, and ensure disconnects such as anticipated product shortages, nonconforming material and excess or obsolete materials are continuously monitored and resolved. Communicate issues and resolutions to internal teams including sourcing and product management.
• Responsible for order placement and vendor management of delivery schedules.
• Assist in the development of partnership arrangements with suppliers to manage internal inventories and vendor consigned inventories reduce inventory ownership and lead times. Perform inventory analysis when required.
• Troubleshoot/analyze quality issues and collaborate with internal and external teams to obtain resolution. Focus to drive down the overall freight expenses, material liability and cost of managing materials.
• Develop key reports with measurement and benchmark information to improve purchasing and supplier management processes.
• Review the annual forecast plan for requirements, and participates with planning to ensure inventory availability. Additionally, participate in determining disposition of excess and obsolete materials.
• Continuously strive to produce more visible, accurate and timely schedules. Evaluate, recommend and implement enhancements to existing flows and processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure all relevant information and documentation is captured and handled uniformly within the system. Responsible for the accuracy and data integrity of the system as it pertains to production planning.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, supply change management, purchasing, or equivalent job experience
• Five years of buying/procurement experience in a consumer goods/manufacturing environment
• Strong negotiation skills
• Exceptional attention to detail for supply management and inventory control methods and procedures
• Ability to create complex reports which depict quality, processes, benchmark, and expense information to effectively make decisions
• Proven timeline and project management experience in a dynamic environment
• APICS and/or ISM certification is a plus
• Prior experience working in an MRP, and JDE environment is a plus
• May require some domestic travel.

A few pointers about our culture:

• Entrepreneurial spirit and innovation are in our bones! We authentically innovate trusted equipment that gets people out in the great outdoors.
• We are laser-focused on our consumers, and passionate about providing superior solutions flexible to meet any event’s needs or mission requirements.
• We strive to create meaningful, healthy change in the world as individuals and as a family of brands.
• We value team members who are willing to wear many hats; who take personal initiative, anticipating what needs to be done, and figuring things out to make them happen; but who are also willing to ask help, to assist others and work together.

What you will receive:

• Share in the company’s success - Competitive base salary, with additional earning potential through our cash profit sharing plan.
• Find your work/life balance with generous paid time off and holiday benefits, health insurance and wellness plans.
• Further your career with training opportunities including our tuition assistance program.
• Plan for your future with our 401k with company match and deferred retirement contributions, Sons & Daughters Scholarship program, life and LTD insurance, employee stock purchase plan, and more.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at Johnson Outdoors (and all subsidiaries) without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. Johnson Outdoors is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please contact Human Resources at HRSpecialAccommodations@johnsonoutdoors.com to let us know the nature of your request and your
contact information.

Pre-employment background check required.