Job Description
Job Description
Resin Sourcing Manager
Location: Leominster, MA or Atlanta, GA, based on the selected candidate
Reports To: TBD
Employment Type: Full Time/Exempt
Remote/Hybrid/On-Site: Hybrid
Direct Reports: TBD
Travel: TBD
Who We Are
We are thrilled that you are considering joining CREO Group, where people thrive, partners grow and innovation takes shape.
CREO Group designs and manufactures consumer storage and horticultural container solutions. While others make plastic, we build relationships. We offer national and private-label products while delivering the flexibility, quality, and innovation our partners expect.
At CREO, work is more than a job - it is a journey. Our mission is to be the market-leading provider of innovative container solutions that enhance everyday living. We partner with our customers to deliver best-in-class, high-quality, and environmentally responsible products through disciplined operational execution. Powered by an engaged, high-performing team, we create enduring value for our employees, partners, and the communities we serve.
Being part of CREO means joining a community that celebrates collaboration and thrives on the diverse strengths of our people. You’ll work alongside colleagues who bring unique experiences, perspectives, and skills to the table, and together, we’ll achieve more than we could alone.
CREO offers eligible full-time employees’ competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, paid time off and holidays.
Many health and welfare benefits are available after 90 days of continuous employment.
Our 401K offers a generous match, with vesting and eligibility beginning after 90 days of continuous employment.
Position Overview
The Resin Sourcing Manager leads resin commodity strategies and procurement across CREO’s manufacturing operations. This role improves cost competitiveness, purchasing leverage, supplier performance, and supply security through market expertise, disciplined sourcing, and strong commercial negotiations.
The successful candidate must bring direct professional experience purchasing resins for manufacturing. Working with technical, commercial, and operational teams, the manager translates market intelligence and production needs into sourcing decisions that protect manufacturing continuity and deliver measurable financial value.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute resin commodity strategies that improve cost competitiveness, purchasing leverage, supply security, and supplier performance.
- Monitor resin markets, pricing movements, feedstock and other cost drivers, capacity constraints, availability, lead times, and supply-chain risks. Use market intelligence, supplier information, internal forecasts, and manufacturing requirements to guide purchasing decisions.
- Identify, assess, qualify, select, and manage resin and raw-material suppliers. Lead requests for information, quotations, and proposals as part of competitive sourcing processes.
- Negotiate resin pricing and pricing mechanisms, payment terms, lead times, service levels, volume commitments, supply agreements, and other commercial conditions within delegated authority.
- Evaluate sourcing alternatives using total cost of ownership, quality, capacity, technical capabilities, service, regulatory compliance, and supply risk.
- Identify alternate suppliers, materials, and sourcing strategies that reduce dependency and protect continuity of supply. Coordinate technical qualification and approvals before material substitutions.
- Develop productive, long-term supplier relationships. Conduct supplier visits, audits, business reviews, and formal evaluations; measure quality, delivery, pricing, service, responsiveness, and corrective-action performance.
- Lead resin cost-reduction initiatives, value-analysis activities, supplier negotiations, and cost-improvement workshops. Partner with Finance to validate savings baselines, realized benefits, cost avoidance, and working-capital improvements.
- Contribute to annual material budgets, purchasing forecasts, cost projections, and procurement performance objectives. Prepare cost analyses, supplier comparisons, forecasts, reports, and management presentations.
- Monitor resin inventory, days on hand, replenishment parameters, and open purchase orders with plant and Supply Chain teams. Balance production requirements, lead times, storage capacity, and inventory investment.
- Report material cost versus budget and forecast, purchase price variance, savings, supplier performance, and inventory health. Identify red or green status against agreed targets and track recovery actions, owners, and deadlines.
- Work cross-functionally to resolve shortages, supply disruptions, material concerns, quality issues, and procurement risks. Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Quality, Sales, Technical Services, Engineering, Operations, and Finance.
- Maintain accurate purchasing records, contracts, specifications, quotation histories, pricing information, vendor data, and supplier-performance documentation in approved systems.
- Ensure procurement activities comply with company policies, contractual obligations, applicable regulations, and ethical purchasing standards.
Experience and Education
Mandatory Resin Procurement Experience
- Direct professional experience purchasing resins for a manufacturing organization is required. Applicants without direct resin-purchasing experience will not be considered.
- At least five years of progressive experience in procurement, purchasing, strategic sourcing, commodity management, or supply management.
- Direct responsibility for sourcing resin suppliers and negotiating resin pricing, terms, availability, lead times, and supply arrangements.
- Understanding of resin markets, suppliers, pricing mechanisms, cost drivers, capacity, availability, and continuity-of-supply risks.
- Procurement experience in plastics manufacturing, resin-dependent manufacturing, chemicals, polymers, compounds, or another directly relevant manufacturing sector.
- Resin experience must involve direct purchasing or strategic sourcing responsibility. Exposure through production, sales, engineering, logistics, or general chemical purchasing does not replace the required resin-procurement experience.
Additional Experience Valued
- Supporting multiple manufacturing facilities or business operations; managing suppliers serving operations in the United States and overseas.
- Developing commodity or category strategies, leading competitive quotation processes and major negotiations, and negotiating purchasing contracts and supplier agreements.
- Conducting supplier business reviews, managing corrective-action programs, and leading cost-reduction, value-analysi