Director of Purchasing
Company: Colony Hardware Corporation
Location: Orange
Posted on: March 18, 2023
Job Description:
Are you the type of worker who thrives in a fast-paced and
professional work environment and gains satisfaction from achieving
goals consistently and efficiently? Are you looking for a
long-lasting career where your earning potential, growth, and
advancement coincide with your hard work? Now's the time to
consider a career with Colony Hardware.Reporting to the Vice
President of Supply Chain, the Director of Purchasing is
responsible for managing Purchasing operations, negotiating and
maintaining relationships with local and regional suppliers, and
optimizing inventory stock levels at hub(s) and branch locations.A
Little About Your Day: You will:
- Provide active day-to-day leadership, direction, coordination,
coaching, and performance management to a team of buyers/supply
planners located across the regions where Colony Hardware
operates
- Execute strategic initiatives as they relate to purchasing
processes and activities.
- Lead the team in the development, adoption, and use of
processes that drive efficiency and effectiveness to support
customer demand.
- Work with Marketing and New Products Council to ensure our
product offering represents the most current models from our core
manufacturers.
- Manage system data parameters including min/max levels to
ensure fill rate objectives are attained.
- Resource problem suppliers as necessary.
- Maintains supplier relationships always looking to leverage
Colony's position, including sourcing of new suppliers, and
negotiating pricing and terms, promotions, and rebates.
- Works with Branch Managers and suppliers to optimize local
opportunities.
- Support acquisition integration.
- Support requests for price and availability in a timely
manner.
- Negotiates off-sheet pricing where possible to provide a
competitive advantage for Colony.
- Create and use metrics and KPIs to drive process efficiency and
productivity in planning, purchase order creation, past due
management, PO acknowledgment, receiving discrepancies, etc.
- Provide management summaries on supplier rebate status as
required.
- Manage process for transfer of inventory from distribution
center to branch warehouses.
- Track and manage open customer backorders to insure timely
delivery.
- Conduct timely performance evaluations by monitoring
performance and initiating action to strengthen results with goal
setting including periodic one on one meetings with direct
reports
- Implement and reinforce company policies, goals, objectives,
and procedures.This might be the opportunity for you if you:
- Are highly proficient in negotiating for the best outcome for
both the customer and the supplier.
- Have excellent leadership skills with a proven track record of
building scalable teams.
- Have a strong ability to build relationships both inside and
outside the organization.
- Have the ability to work independently, prioritize work, and
perform multiple tasks.
- Have excellent time management, negotiation, critical thinking,
decision making, and organizational, and project management skills
as well as attention to detail.
- Must exhibit good leadership and supervisory skills with the
ability to support and mentor staff with diverse backgrounds in
geographically dispersed locations.
- Analytical ability including strong math skills, analyzing
large data sets, and trend analysis.
- Experience in working with cross-functional teams and creating
a collaborative environment.What You'll Need to Have for success:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or
related discipline. MBA preferred.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in a managerial or
directorial position is preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of successful purchasing experience.
- Experience using tools such as Business analytics platforms
(Power BI or similar), ERP systems (NetSuite, Profit 21, Oracle),
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel (advanced), PowerPoint, etc.) We Can
Offer You:We value performance that exhibits a high sense of
urgency, coupled with attention to detail and a strong customer
service orientation! We also care about the welfare of our
employees, which is why our salary and benefits are competitive.
Colony's benefits include:
- Quarterly bonuses based upon performance.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, STD/LTD, Life Insurance (company
paid!)
- 401k with a generous match
- HSA/FSA
- Competitive PTO and paid holidays
- Company-provided PPE as required
- Industry-leading training and development
- Generous discounts on the best products from leading industry
vendorsLife at Colony: Colony Hardware is the leading distributor
of Tools, Equipment, Fasteners, Supplies, and Safety Products to
commercial construction and industrial accounts throughout our
markets.At Colony, our people are our most valuable asset. Success
as a Colony Associate means being reliable, conscientious, and
passionate. With our direction centered on teamwork, every employee
at Colony will not only find their work to be meaningful but will
have the opportunity to grow alongside Colony, both professionally
and personally.If you possess a will to win and would like to join
a culture where integrity and collaboration are integral to
success, apply to Colony Hardware today to join our growing
family!Colony's Commitment to Equal Opportunity:Colony Hardware
Corporation is an equal-opportunity employer. We enthusiastically
accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without
regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual
orientation, national origin, citizenship, religion, marital
status, a victim of domestic violence, familial status, genetic
predisposition, or information, disability, Family and Medical
Leave, military or veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy,
childbirth, and related medical conditions, or any other
classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and
ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment
of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion,
transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising,
pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general
treatment during employment.PM22
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