Purchasing Manager

About the role

Altrider, a US‑based motorcycle accessories manufacturer, is looking for a Purchasing Manager to ensure stock availability across more than 400 SKUs. The role focuses on planning, tracking and follow‑through to prevent stockouts and support dealers.

Key responsibilities

• Run a weekly reorder review using a purchasing dashboard to identify SKUs with cover below supplier lead time.
• Check existing factory commitments before creating new purchase orders.
• Issue purchase orders with correct quantity, price, drawing revision and packaging instructions.
• Chase order acknowledgements and delivery dates, maintaining a project tracker with PO details.
• Track shipments, verify vessel ETAs, and publish weekly arrival updates to internal teams.
• Produce weekly stockout reports and reconcile inventory between the system and the EU warehouse.
• Recommend air freight when stockout cost exceeds shipment cost and present the analysis to leadership.
• Escalate issues when suppliers become unresponsive.

Required profile

• 3–5 years of experience in purchasing, supply chain, inventory or merchandise planning.
• Strong proficiency with Google Sheets, including lookups, pivots and conditional logic.
• Proven follow‑up discipline and ability to make decisive ordering decisions.
• Clear written English for supplier and internal communications.

Required skills

• Google Sheets
• Shopify or e‑commerce inventory systems
• 3PL or warehouse management systems
• Reading engineering drawings or part revisions