Graco Benefits Overview

Provides purchasing and sourcing support for manufacturing factories by evaluating suppliers, analyzing bids, qualifying vendors, placing purchase orders, maintaining order quantities, and monitoring market trends. The role supports global sourcing strategy for metal fabrication categories and drives cost, quality, lead-time, and inventory improvements. It also requires supplier visits and audits, cross-functional communication, problem resolution, and occasional travel.

Forecasts, plans, and schedules purchased and manufactured products in a manufacturing environment. Manages inventory, supplier materials, manufacturing orders, planning parameters, customer priorities, and supply-demand exceptions. Uses GAINS and Oracle to maintain forecasts and drive production planning. Communicates shortages, delivery changes, capacity issues, and quality concerns across customer service, marketing, factory, and corporate teams while reporting on inventory and service levels.

Drive sales growth across an assigned territory by developing distribution channels, acquiring and retaining accounts, analyzing market trends, managing customer relationships, supporting product launches, training sales partners, and collaborating with marketing and product teams. The role serves industrial contractors and facility managers, requires French and English fluency, mechanical aptitude, CRM usage, customer site visits, supplier relationship management, and travel as needed.