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A Little About Us: Operating since 1968, Newmar Corporation has been helping customers explore the outdoor lifestyle, enabling extraordinary mobile experiences as they travel, live, work, and play. Newmar has been synonymous in the RV industry with luxury, quality, and innovative motor coaches. In every part of our company, we relentlessly pursue continuous improvement and enhanced productivity, driving out waste, and creating meaningful strategic differentiation. Newmar is part of Winnebago Industries, Inc. a leading U.S. manufacturer of outdoor lifestyle experiences under the Winnebago, Newmar, Grand Design, Chris-Craft, and Barletta brands.

Primary Objective of Position: Buy materials for production operations in a manner that would ensure the prompt and accurate delivery of all materials and supplies according to production schedule.  

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Manages assigned commodities through annual model year change including communication to suppliers for required parts, transition dates, obsolescence reduction, and assurance that purchasing programs are set up to support launch timing.
• Confers with supplier to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Determines methods of procurement and coordinates with Applications Specialist to create necessary programs and reports to drive purchase demand.
• Maintains procurement records such as items purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
• Expedites delivery of goods to users.
• Performs any other duty assigned by the VP of Supply Chain.

Experience & Skills

• OEM RV purchasing experience highly encouraged (motorized preferred).
• Experience using Microsoft Outlook and Excel required (Approach preferred).
• Use of ERP systems for performing purchasing functions required (Infor preferred).
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and office administration skills required.
• Must be detail oriented and able to perform data entry with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to work onsite is required