Manager Purchasing

Mohawk Industries, Inc. • Dallas, TX

79d

About The Position

Join the largest manufacturer of tile and natural stone in the United States and watch your career stand out with Dal-Tile, a subsidiary of Mohawk Industries. Our close-knit team of dedicated professionals has made us the success we are today. In exchange for their hard work, we support our people with a family-friendly work environment, a commitment to promoting from within, unique benefits that go beyond just medical and dental, and a belief that every employee deserves a productive life outside of work. If this sounds outstanding to you, take the first step forward and explore a career with Dal-Tile. Job Objective: The Manager Purchasing is a first-level manager that oversees the day-to-day operations of a purchasing team. This role will be responsible for overseeing and optimizing the procurement process to ensure the timely acquisition of goods and services at the best possible value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 6-8 years’ relevant experience or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 1-3 years of management experience.
• Self-starter with strong ownership mindset
• Demonstrates initiatives and ability to operate independently
• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.
• Focused on and responsible for their team's productivity and collective impact.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Able to multitask, prioritize, delegate, and manage time effectively.
• High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.
• Proficient using Microsoft Suite of products.
• Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player and able to handle multiple projects at once.
• High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive data analysis initiatives to cleanse, normalize, and validate historical spend data, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and decision ready insights for procurement and sourcing teams.
• Develop, standardize, and govern spend taxonomy in collaboration with the Center of Excellence (COE) and Global Ceramics stakeholders to enable consistent reporting, benchmarking, and strategic analysis across regions and categories.
• Design, build, and maintain interactive dashboards and reporting tools to track spend performance, productivity initiatives, savings realization, and procurement KPIs, enabling timely and data-driven decision making.
• Develop and implement a Raw Material planning structure, aligning demand forecasting, supply planning, and sourcing strategies to support operational continuity, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.
• Establish and manage a bottoms up Procurement Annual Operating Plan (AOP) roll up process, consolidating category- and site-level plans into an aligned, enterprise-wide procurement roadmap.
• Analyze purchasing data and external market trends to identify opportunities for cost reduction, value enhancement, supplier optimization, and supply risk mitigation; translate insights into actionable sourcing strategies.
• Partner closely with inventory management, supply chain, and operations teams to optimize inventory levels, reduce stockouts, minimize excess inventory, and lower total carrying costs while maintaining service levels.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with finance, operations, planning, and sourcing teams to ensure alignment between procurement strategies, financial targets, and business objectives.
• Continuously improve procurement processes, analytics capabilities, and planning methodologies, embedding best practices and scalable solutions across the organization.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and subject-matter expertise to team members and stakeholders, fostering a data-driven culture and accountability for performance outcomes.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, fostering open communication, collaboration, and mutual trust.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Benefits

• We offer competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, career opportunities, and an environment of creativity and growth.
• Examples include: Company Match on 401k, Employee Purchase Discount, and Tuition Reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager