Koch Industries

Georgia-Pacific’s Wood Products Division has an immediate opening for a talented leader with both strategic and tactical purchasing experience. This role will be based out of our Lumber facility in Warrenton, GA. As a part of our Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization, this role reports to the Lumber Group Manager with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Warrenton mill manager. This position will manage local procurement and storeroom operations, as well as supervise personnel. The ideal candidate has proven supervisory experience; has a record of creating value through building strong working relationships with a diverse group of customers; has demonstrated a principled entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to build a capability that delivers a supply chain with an optimized total cost of ownership to operations. A successful candidate will have positive communication skills and approach, a strong desire to learn, and the ability to think outside the box! If you are organized, safety-oriented and have strong organizational, decision-making, and analytical skills, this may be the opportunity for you!

What You Will Do

• Ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, stores and environmental policies and procedures.
• Develop strong partnerships internally and externally, aligning with strategic initiatives, commitments, and supply chain strategies
• Working with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business goals to deliver long-term value; demonstrate a high degree of Customer Focus and an ability to effectively influence others
• Ability to lead and effectively manage change based on the visions and initiatives we are working to achieve (GP, Business, Operations, and Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P)).
• Proactively collaborate and partner with key stakeholders, including Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and SS&P’s Category, Sourcing and Inventory Management Teams.
• Leading, supervising, coaching, and mentoring employees
• Utilize critical thinking skills to identify, analyze, and execute on opportunities to streamline processes and achieve the lowest total cost of ownership on projects, storeroom inventory, and other purchases
• Sourcing, procuring, negotiating, contracting, and managing inventory of equipment, MRO parts, services, and supplies as appropriate
• Working with requestors to understand requirements, specifications, and timing; conducting competitive bidding process, including soliciting RFIs/RFPs and robust bid analysis & recommendations
• Managing and working to improve the procure-to-pay process (including invoice reconciliation management) and training internal customers on their roles in these processes as needed
• Ensure storerooms are disciplined, optimized, reliable, support defined asset strategies and are supported by corporate leadership and mill operation teams.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree or four years of relevant storeroom, supply chain, inventory management, procurement, or maintenance experience
• Purchasing or relevant operations experience 
• Experience supervising, developing and mentoring employees
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite

What Will Put You Ahead

• Inventory or storeroom management experience, including experience with an inventory management computer system
• 3+ years of experience in the manufacturing industry
• Demonstrated experience in driving procurement transformation and implementing changes
• Demonstrated experience in partnering with key internal stakeholders and leading cross functional teams in a matrixed environment

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better. 

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf