Sr. Purchasing Agent

Job Posting Start Date 09-11-2025 Job Posting End Date 11-13-2025

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Sr. Purchasing Agent located in Dallas, Texas.

Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, the Sr. Purchasing Agent role is responsible for using cost effective methods to procure material and services for our manufacturing projects while maintaining positive working relationships with suppliers.

What a typical day looks like:

• Sources, generates, and executes purchase orders for materials and services according to the company’s policies and procedures.

• Oversees the purchasing planning process for each project and ensures that all procurement activities occur on time based on production start and material availability.

• Evaluates vendors based on price, reliability, capability, and previous transaction history; builds and maintains working relationships with vendors and suppliers.

• Research new suppliers to increase sourcing scope and selection of material; gather and analyze information collected to determine additional vendors.

• Works with vendors to negotiate materials based on price, volume, lead times, and other options to get the best deal.

• Establishes min/max levels for stock inventory.

• Ensures that purchasing documents are complete and accurate and include appropriate and reasonable terms and conditions (Material Service Agreements).

• Resolve issues that arise with purchase orders including damaged claims, rejections, over and under quantity shipments, cancellations, delivery constraints, and returns

• Review invoicing from vendors for accuracy; resolve any issues that arise.

• Develops and generates purchasing reports; analyze key performance indicator (KPI) data and makes recommendation of findings.

• Coordinates with Bill of Material (BOM) creators for project specific quotes and procurement planning and execution.

• Provides support to internal business partners on procurement process.

• Identifies and mitigate purchasing risks that are related to market fluctuations, supplier performance, legal issues, technical changes, environmental factors, etc.

• Identifies opportunities and provides recommendations to improve purchasing processes; creates, reviews, and updates work instructions, as needed.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Associates degree in a related field required; Bachelors degree in a related field highly preferred; relevant experience may be substituted for education.

• At least 7+ years of purchasing experience required.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proven vendor relationship and negotiation skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to collect and analyze data and trends.

• Thorough understanding of purchasing procedures and policies.

• Thorough understanding of Supply Chain and Inventory Management policies and procedures

• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

• Confers with vendors to obtain product information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
• Orders, reschedules and cancels material based on requisitions and MRP output.
• Maintains procurement records such as items purchased, costs, delivery and inventories.
• Manages supplier to price, delivery and quality expectations and escalates when appropriate.
• Approves invoices for payment.
• Investigation inventory levels.
• Monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle.
• Conducts quarterly supplier reviews.
• Maintains procurement records, reports and metrics.
   

Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 2 to 4 years of procurement experience.
• Use of the following tools may be r