Purchasing - Purchasing Manager
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.
What we are looking for:
- 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
- Estimating experience is considered an asset
- Strong MS Office Excel skills with experience using BuildPro or OLS
What You'll Be Doing Each Day - 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
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