Purchasing - Purchasing Manager

The Employee Experience Team•Charlotte, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Purchasing Manager leads the team on ensuring timely and accurate generation of all contract purchase orders for the end-to-end construction production. This includes, but is not limited to identifying, recommending, and implementing process improvements that ensures timely delivery of materials, trades and services across our construction sites in accordance to schedules and budgets.

Requirements

Post-secondary Bachelor’s Degree, College Diploma in Architecture, Supply Chain or relevant field of study
Excellent knowledge of construction, procurement, and estimating processes and procedures
Understands and demonstrates knowledge of core Newstar purchasing functions and their subsidiary impacts across the ERP framework
Strong MS Office Excel skills with experience using BuildPro or OLS

Nice To Haves

Estimating experience is considered an asset

Responsibilities

Monitoring of construction releases in conjunction with interior design appointments for timely release of purchase orders to the field
Drives operational excellence by continuously identifying and recommending opportunities to improve processes, systems, procedures, and policies within the purchasing team
Works collaboratively with the Manager, Business Process, and Décor to develop, research, create and maintain the Product Library and set up of new Décor offerings.
Review scopes of work, architectural plans, and pricing to confirm accurate issuance of purchase orders through Newstar.
Liaison with trade partners, Construction, Marketing, Customer Service and Décor to ensure trade partners have the appropriate information to fulfill contractual obligations
Communicates proactively and regularly with Superintendents and Managers on upcoming purchasing needs
Works with team, Accounts Payable and Vendors to resolve escalated invoice discrepancies
Hires, develops, evaluates, and motivates purchasing team