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Founded in 2012, BTR has become a leader in high-performance camshafts, valvetrain systems, and precision-engineered components for modern American pushrod engines. With advanced in-house capabilities-including CNC machining, Spintron testing, and specialized camshaft grinding-BTR designs, tests, and manufactures products trusted by enthusiasts, engine builders, and racers worldwide. If you’re driven by engineering excellence and high-performance innovation, BTR is an exceptional place to grow your career.\nSummary:\nReporting to the Director of Purchasing, the Purchasing Supervisor is responsible for leading the day-to-day activities of the Purchasing Department and ensuring that materials, components, and services are available when required at the best overall value to the Company.\nThis position supervises the Purchasing team and manages key supplier relationships, while driving measurable cost reductions and process improvement through supplier negotiations, strategic sourcing, data analysis, workflow standardization, and continuous improvement. The Purchasing Supervisor works closely with Operations, Production Planning, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Inventory Control to support production requirements, reduce supply-chain risk, and improve supplier performance.\nThis role is based at our Bardstown, KY location and is fully onsite.\nDuties and Responsiblities:\nManage the complete purchasing cycle, including requirements review, requests for quotation, supplier selection, purchase-order placement, order confirmation, expediting, delivery follow-up, and discrepancy resolution.\nMaintain a hands-on portfolio of strategic and complex suppliers, including international suppliers, while ensuring purchasing team members maintain balanced and appropriate supplier portfolios.\nLead supplier negotiations involving price, payment terms, lead times, minimum order quantities, freight, tooling, warranty, rebates, and other commercial terms.\nDevelop and maintain a measurable purchasing cost-reduction pipeline aligned with annual financial targets and operational priorities.\nUse competitive bidding, supplier consolidation, specification review, value analysis, alternate sourcing, volume leverage, and total-cost analysis to reduce costs without compromising quality or continuity of supply.\nEstablish savings baselines with Finance, track forecast and realized saving, distinguish cost avoidance from verified savings, and regularly report results against established targets.\nAnalyze purchasing spend, purchase price variance, supplier concentration, fright costs, order frequency, and transactional costs to identify savings and working-capital opportunities.\nPartner with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance on supplier transitions, make-versus-buy analysis, design-to-cost opportunities, and other cross- functional cost-reduction initiatives.\nEvaluate, qualify, and develop suppliers in partnership with Quality and Operations, including identifying alternate and dual-source options for critical materials.\nMonitor supplier performance related to cost, quality, on-time delivery, responsiveness, and lead time. Conduct supplier performance reviews and implement corrective action plans when expectations are not met.\nCoordinate supplier non-conformances, returns, credits, warranty claims, and commercial disputes to achieve timely and favorable resolutions.\nIdentify and communicate supply risks, shortages, capactiy constraints, and market changes, including developing and implementing appropriate mitigation plans.\nMeasure pruchasing effectiveness and efficiency using established KPIs, including verified cost savings, purchase price variance, supplier on-time delivery, overdue purchase orders, supplier quality, lead-time performance, and purchase-order accuracy.\nStandardize purchasing workflows, approval controls, supplier records, and departmental procedures to improve speed, consistency, compliance, and audit readiness.\nMaintain accurate supplier, pricing, lead0time, order-quantity, and purchasing data within the ERP system.\nReduce manual effort and avoidable purchasing transactions through workflow improvements, blanket purchase orders, supplier scheduling, reporting tools, automation, and other practical process changes.\nDevelop and maintain purchasing procedures, work instructions, and standard work. Monitor compliance and conduct follow-up reviews to ensure improvements are sustained.\nBuild effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and ensure purchasing decisions, supply risks, and supplier commitments are communicated clearly and promptly.\nProtect confidential supplier, pricing, commercial, and Company information and ensure purchasing activities comply with Company policies and delegated authority.\nOther duties as assisgned by your supervisor.\nManagement Responsibilities:\nHire, develop, coach, and manage a team of purchasing professionals.\nEstablish clear priorities, service expectations, performance objectives, and cost-reduction targets for the Purchasing Department.\nProvide employees with regular direction, feedback, training, and development opportunities.\nComplete annual employee performance reviews.\nAddress employee performance or conduct concerns promptly and in partnership with Human Resources.\nManage departmental workload, staffing coverage, attendance, and timecards to maintain dependable support for operations.\nPromote accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-based decision-making within the department.\nEnsure employees comply with Company health and safety requirements, receive required training, report hazards and incidents, and use required personal protective equipment.\nRequirements\nDuties and Responsiblities:\nManage the complete purchasing cycle, including requirements review, requests for quotation, supplier selection, purchase-order placement, order confirmation, expediting, delivery follow-up, and discrepancy resolution.\nMaintain a hands-on portfolio of strategic and complex suppliers, including interantional suppliers, while ensuring purchasing team members maintain balanced and appropriate supplier portfolios.\nLead supplier negotiations involving price, payment terms, lead times, minimum order quantities, freight, tooling, warranty, rebates, and other commercial terms.\nDevelop and maintain a measurable purchasing cost-reduction pipeline aligned with annual financial targets and operational priorities.\nUse competitive bidding, supplier consolidation, specification review, value analysis, alternate sourcing, volume leverage, and total-cost analysis to reduce costs without compromising quality or continuity of supply.\nEstablish savings baselines with Finance, track forecast and realized saving, distinguish cost avoidance from verified savings, and regularly report results against established targets.\nAnalyze purchasing spend, purchase price variance, supplier concentration, fright costs, order grequency, and transactional costs to identify savings and working-capital opportunities.\nPartner with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance on supplier transitions, make-versus-buy analysis, design-to-cost opportunities, and other cross- functional cost-reduction initiatives.\nEvaluate, qualify, and develop suppliers in partnership with Quality and Operations, including identifying alternate and dual-source options for critical materials.\nMonitor supplier performance related to cost, quality, on-time delivery, responsiveness, and lead time. Conduct supplier performance reviews and implement corrective action plans when expectations are not met.\nCoordinate supplier non-conformances, returns, credits, warranty claims, and commercial disputes to achieve timely and favorable resolutions.\nIdentify and communicate supply risks, shortages, capactiy constraints, and market changes, including developing and implementing appropriate mitigation plans.\nMeasure pruchasing effectiveness and efficiency using established KPIs, including verified cost savings, purchase price variance, supplier on-time delivery, overdue purchase orders, supplier quality, lead-time performance, and purchase-order accuracy.\nStandardize purchasing workflows, approval controls, supplier records, and departmental procedures to improve speed, consistency, compliance, and audit readiness.\nMaintain accurate supplier, pricing, lead time, order-quantity, and purchasing data within the ERP system.\nReduce manual effort and avoidable purchasing transactions through workflow improvements, blanket purchase orders, supplier scheduling, reporting tools, automation, and other practical process changes.\nDevelop and maintain purchasing procedures, work instructions, and standard work. Monitor compliance and conduct follow-up reviews to ensure improvements are sustained.\nBuild effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and ensure purchasing decisions, supply risks, and supplier commitments are communicated clearly and promptly.\nProtect confidential supplier, pricing, commercial, and Company information and ensure purchasing activities comply with Company policies and delegated authority.\nOther duties as assisgned by your supervisor.\nManagement Responsibilities:\nHire, develop, coach, and manage a team of purchasing professionals.\nEstablish clear priorities, service expectations, performance objectives, and cost-reduction targets for the Purchasing Department.\nProvide employees with regular direction, feedback, training, and development opportunities.\nComplete annual employee performance reviews.\nAddress employee performance or conduct concerns promptly and in partnership with Human Resources.\nManage departmental workload, staffing coverage, attendance, and timecards to maintain dependable support for operations.\nPromote accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-based decision-making within the department.\nEnsure employees comply with Company health and safety requirements, receive required training, report hazards and incidents, and use required personal protective equipment.\nWorking Conditions:\nFully onsite position based in Bardstown, KY, USA.\nOffice and production-facility environment.\nRegular use of a computer, software, and standard office equipment.\nPeriodic entry into production, warehouse, and shipping areas.\nSteel-toed footwear and other personal protective equipment are required when entering designated areas.\nOccasional domestic or international travel may be required, up to 33%.\nOccasional lifting of up to 50 pounds may be required for product reviews.\nEducation and Experience:\nPost-secondary education in supply chain management, business, operations, or a related field is preferred.\nA supply-chain designation or certification, such as CSCP, CPIM, or CPSM, is considered an asset.\nMinimum five years of progressive purchasing or supply-chain experience in a manufacturing environment.\nMinimum two years of supervisory or team-lead experience.\nDemonstrated experience achieving measurable cost reductions, conducting supplier negotiations, and improving purchasing processes.\nStrong knowledge of purchasing practices, strategic sourcing, supplier management, commercial terms, inventory principles, and manufacturing supply chains.\nProficiency using an ERP system for purchasing, materials planning, supplier management, and reporting. Experience with SAP B1 is considered an asset.\nAdvanced spreadsheet and data-analysis skills, with the ability to translate purchasing information into priorities, actions, and measurable results.\nStrong negotiation, problem-solving, planning, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.\nAbility to manage competing priorities, respond effectively to urgent supply issues, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.\nHigh degree of integrity, sound judgment, accountability, and professionalism.\nAn equivalent combination of education and experi...","description_format":"text","description_chars":12482,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Private Equity"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-29T16:09:36Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hh-cp-purchasing-supervisor","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hh-cp-purchasing-supervisor.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T15:43:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24512,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":16064},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=16064"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhh-cp-purchasing-supervisor"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhh-cp-purchasing-supervisor"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhh-cp-purchasing-supervisor"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hh-cp-purchasing-supervisor\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhh-cp-purchasing-supervisor"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3468516}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"hh-cp.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3468516},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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