The posting
At SOMIC, procurement is more than purchasing. You'll play a critical role in ensuring materials arrive on time, suppliers stay aligned, and highly engineered packaging systems continue supporting some of the world's most recognized consumer brands. Working closely with teams across the U.S. and Germany, you'll help keep our operations and customers moving forward.
We're looking for an experienced Procurement Specialist who is organized, collaborative, and takes pride in delivering exceptional service to both suppliers and internal stakeholders. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building relationships, managing details, and serving as a trusted partner across the organization. You'll support procurement activities for highly engineered automated packaging systems, spare parts, and customer support operations, helping ensure the right materials are available when and where they're needed.
If you're known for being dependable, proactive, and easy to work with, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Procurement Specialist, you'll help ensure the right materials, components, and services are available to support our customers and operations.
You'll:
- Manage purchase orders and supplier communications
- Monitor deliveries and proactively resolve shortages or delays
- Partner with suppliers to improve performance and responsiveness
- Serve as the primary US procurement point of contact to SOMIC headquarters in Germany, partnering directly with global supply chain and procurement leaders to coordinate purchasing activities, material requirements, supplier communications, and operational priorities.
- Support inventory planning and material availability
- Work with ERP/MRP systems to manage purchasing activities
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders across operations, engineering, warehouse, and service teams
- Conduct supplier evaluations, sourcing initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Help improve purchasing, inventory, and supply chain processes through data-driven problem solving.
- Support KPI tracking, reporting, and procurement performance analysis
This role offers a blend of procurement execution, supplier management, inventory support, and international collaboration, making it ideal for someone looking to broaden their supply chain experience and grow within a global organization.
Requirements
- Associates degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, or related field; or equivalent experience. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
- 3+ years of procurement, purchasing, materials, inventory, or supply chain experience
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial equipment, automation, packaging machinery, engineered products, or related environments strongly preferred
- ERP/MRP system experience
- Strong Excel, communication, and organizational skills
- Relationship-focused, detail-oriented, and team-oriented mindset
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth
- 75% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 10 paid company holidays plus 2 personal holidays each year
- Generous PTO program with increasing accrual based on years of service
- Flexible core working hours that support work-life balance
- 401(k) with company match
- 100% employer-paid STD, LTD, AD&D, and Paid Family & Medical Leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Direct collaboration with colleagues and leaders in Germany
- Exposure to global operations, suppliers, and supply chain initiatives
- Opportunity to influence purchasing, supplier, and inventory processes in a growing business
- Work from SOMIC's modern Inver Grove Heights facility
This Is Not Just a Purchasing Role
Unlike larger organizations where procurement responsibilities are highly specialized, this role offers the opportunity to influence supplier relationships, purchasing processes, inventory decisions, and operational improvements across the business.
Success in this role isn't measured solely by purchase orders processed or reports completed. It's measured by the relationships you build, the problems you solve, and the support you provide to the teams and customers who rely on you.
If you're looking for a rewarding procurement role where your contributions are visible, your ideas are valued, and you can be part of a collaborative team that genuinely enjoys working together, we encourage you to apply.
Join us and help build the supply chain that supports the future of SOMIC.
This role is based onsite at our Inver Grove Heights, MN facility to support close collaboration with operations, engineering, warehouse, service, and leadership teams. Remote work and relocation assistance are not available for this position!
