Position: Contractor Manager (Project Manager)
Location: Fort Scott, KS
KEY Apparel is a clothing company located in Fort Scott, Kansas, focused on manufacturing and selling high quality work, industrial and outdoor related apparel. The Contract Manager plays a critical role in our ability to achieve our goals by creating and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers and managing the production process. This role is responsible for purchase order creation, close-out, extension, and renewal, and communicating purchase order changes to all relevant parties. We count on our Contract Manager to resolve any purchase order related issues that come up, whether internally or externally, and we require an individual who can partner with a variety of business support functions, including customer care, sales, and warehouse.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Draft, evaluate, and execute purchase orders with suppliers;
- Establish and maintain supplier relationships by serving as a primary point of contact between KEY and its manufacturing partners;
- Manage record keeping for all contractor correspondence and documentation;
- Manage Work-in-Process (WIP) report weekly to ensure the timely delivery of products, timely communicate discrepancies or issues within the WIP report, propose resolutions to WIP report discrepancies;
- Coordinate with the Quality Assurance Team to ensure that each Purchase Order has received an audit by both the factory (prior to shipment) and by either an independent 3rd party or an internal KEY Apparel audit;
- Provide Purchase Order-related issue resolution, both internally and externally;
- Monitor and complete Purchase Order close-out, extension, or renewal, as appropriate;
- Coordinate freight / shipments between suppliers and freight forwarders;
- Communicate Purchase Order related information to all stakeholders;
- Create / set up new items within KEY’s ERP system; and
- Manage the Pre-production Check Run (PCR) process for new item creation.
Key offers competitive compensation including a highly competitive benefits package. Interested candidates please send resume with references via e-mail hr@keyapparel.com or by mail to Key Industries, Inc., Attn: Human Resources, 400 Marble Road, Fort Scott, KS 66701. For more information about Key, please visit our web-site at www.keyapparel.com.