Sr Buyer - Purchasing

Wynn Resorts•Las Vegas, NV

About The Position

The Senior Buyer supports daily procurement operations in a luxury integrated resort environment. The role manages high-volume purchasing, vendor communications, and supply chain coordination, serving as a liaison among operating departments, suppliers, warehouse operations, sourcing, receiving, and finance. The position supports uninterrupted service across hotel, food and beverage, casino, retail, entertainment, and support operations. Typical daily activity includes managing 50–300 purchase orders and more than 50 vendor-related communications, while resolving shortages, backorders, pricing discrepancies, and open purchase order issues. The Senior Buyer also provides functional guidance, training, and operational oversight to Buyers; supports sourcing and cost-control initiatives; and maintains purchasing reports and performance metrics. The role calls for effective customer service and coordination across multiple departments in a fast-paced operational environment.

Requirements

3–5+ years of purchasing, procurement, or supply chain experience in a high-volume hospitality, gaming, foodservice, or resort environment.
Experience managing large-scale purchasing operations with high daily transaction volumes.
Strong understanding of procurement systems, ERP platforms, and purchasing workflows.
Excellent organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
Strong verbal and written communication abilities.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and procurement reporting tools.
Ability to analyze pricing, identify discrepancies, and resolve complex purchasing issues.
Proven ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced operational environment.

Responsibilities

Create, process, modify, and expedite 50–300 purchase orders daily across multiple operational categories.
Review requisitions for accuracy, completeness, budget compliance, and appropriate sourcing.
Monitor orders from creation through receipt and invoice reconciliation, ensuring timely delivery and maintaining required purchasing records.
Communicate daily with vendors, suppliers, distributors, and internal stakeholders by email and phone; follow up on open orders, delays, shortages, substitutions, and damaged deliveries.
Resolve supply chain disruptions, maintain supplier relationships, uphold contractual and service-level expectations, and escalate critical supply issues with recommended alternatives.
Review open purchase orders, investigate outstanding receipts, partial deliveries, and backorders, and coordinate with warehouse, receiving, and operating departments to validate shortages and delivery variances.
Coordinate expedited shipments and alternative sourcing when needed, and maintain accurate open purchase order reporting and stakeholder updates.
Research and update product pricing; validate invoice pricing against contracts, bid pricing, and approved quotes; and resolve price, unit-of-measure, and supplier billing discrepancies.
Maintain accurate item master data, lead times, supplier information, and purchasing parameters; support cost control through pricing analysis and market comparisons.
Partner with Strategic Sourcing on sourcing opportunities, supplier alternatives, quote gathering, supplier evaluations, contract implementation, and vendor onboarding.
Provide data for negotiations and sourcing initiatives, and participate in product conversions and supplier transition projects.
Collaborate with Food & Beverage, Hotel Operations, Retail, Entertainment, Engineering, Housekeeping, Warehouse, Receiving, Finance, and other operating departments.
Communicate order status, delivery schedules, substitutions, and supply risks; support emergency requirements and urgent procurement requests while providing customer service across competing priorities.
Provide functional guidance, training, and operational oversight to Buyers.
Generate and maintain reports on open purchase orders, shortages and backorders, price variance tracking, supplier performance, delivery compliance, and purchasing activity metrics.
Analyze purchasing trends, recommend process improvements, and support KPI reporting and procurement performance metrics.