Purchasing Quantitative

The role

You will combine hands-on supplier work with data analysis to improve how the company decides what material to buy, from whom, when, and where to hold it. You will build models and tools to help maintain delivery promises while using inventory efficiently.

What you will do

• Forecast demand by alloy, temper, thickness, form, and size using quotes, orders, customer patterns, and available market signals
• Explore new products to bring on and develop
• Build data-driven cost models to inform purchasing decisions, financial forecasting, quoting, and pricing
• Set and improve reorder points, safety stock, and transfer recommendations across facilities
• Investigate shortages, excess stock, expedites, and recurring forecast errors
• Backtest model recommendations against historical decisions
• Build clear dashboards and decision tools in SQL, Python, spreadsheets, or Nox's operational systems
• Check the data against physical stock and supplier commitments
• Complete other duties as assigned

Required qualifications

• Strong in quantitative analysis and comfortable making decisions with incomplete operational data
• Able to use SQL and Python to analyze demand and costs
• Familiar with purchasing, inventory planning, operations research, industrial engineering, or applied data science in a physical-goods business

Nice to have

• Experience in metals distribution or manufacturing
• Familiarity with aerospace or defense material requirements
• Experience with ERP or MRP systems
• Experience with forecasting or constrained optimization
• Experience with supplier negotiations
• Experience with pricing or quote economics

Benefits

• Equity in Nox Metals
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

About the company

Nox Metals is a technology company in Ferndale, Michigan supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers.