Purchasing Manager

Eaton's ES AMER ARS division is currently seeking a Purchasing Manager. The position will be based at our facility in El Paso, Texas. We are offering relocation assistance for candidates who reside within the U.S.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you'll do:

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for leading the procurement function, material planning governance, engineering change execution from a Supply Chain perspective, and the digital transformation of Supply Chain processes. This role ensures material availability, supplier performance, ERP data integrity, inventory optimization, and effective implementation of engineering changes while driving process standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across procurement and planning operations.
In a high-mix, engineered-to-order switchboard manufacturing environment serving hyperscale customers such as data centers, the Purchasing Manager plays a critical role in balancing customer demand, supplier capacity, inventory investment, and operational execution.

Job Responsibilities:

• Developes and executes sourcing strategies, manages supplier relationships, negotiates agreements, mitigates supply chain risks and collaborates closely with material planning, operations, engineering, project management, MPS and customer service to ensure material availability to meet customer commitments.
• This role is responsible of a team of buyers (direct and MRO), inventory analysts to monitor engineering changes from the supply chain perspective and business process analyst to drive continuous improvement processes within supply chain.
• Responsible for leading the strategic sourcing, supplier management, procurement execution and material availability functions to support a high-mix, high-volume electrical switchboard manufacturing operation serving ETO and Hyperscale Data Center customers.

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 5 years of supply chain, engineering or operations experience required
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc

• MRO and direct material procurement
• Supplier management. Strategic Sourcing. Negotiation and terms
• Manufacturing Environment Knowledge
• Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
• Switchboards
• Power Distribution Equipment
• Data Center Infrastructure
• Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing
• High-Mix / High-Volume Operations
• Complex Assembly Environments