Purchasing Manager/Buyer (Retail Flooring, & Building Supplies)
Purchasing Manager/Buyer (Retail Flooring, & Building Supplies)
Elan Partners
Dallas, TX
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Title: Purchasing Manager/Buyer (Retail Flooring & Building Supplies)
Direct Hire Opportunity
No Sponsorship
Remote, but must reside in DFW, Texas or South/Central Mississippi areas
Our client, a building supply company with multiple locations in the southeast, is looking for a buyer who is well-versed in the procurement of flooring and millwork and has a strong sense of field economics. This role will lead sourcing and procurement for 5 Building Supply locations and will be the primary driver/relationship manager with end-to-end responsibility for developing and managing partner accounts.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of buying/merchandise planning experience with flooring or building supplies.
- Demonstrated experience with vendor sourcing and management in flooring and/or building supplies
- Experience defining and detailing merchandising strategy (Pricing, Merchandising, Allocation, Marketing, Processing) for all assigned accounts.
- Demonstrated field economics experience for authoring deal evaluations for selling strategy.
- Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, supply chain management highly preferred
- Available to travel 20%
- Soft Skills – Driver personality, sense of urgency, and ability to communicate effectively within all levels of an organization and be comfortable authoring financial and merchandising vision and presenting to VP-level partners quarterly.
Responsibilities:
- Lead in providing updates, extracting lessons, and scaling engagement.
- Grow revenue-sharing partnerships with both new and existing partners.
- Coordinate with planning teams for weekly buying and purchasing plans.
- Work closely with allocation, merchandise & planning for seamless transitions before deals are finalized.
- Spearhead strategy and make recommendations on weekly promotional discussions for specific accounts.
- Enhance market presence and credibility through trade shows, pitches, and conferences alongside business development.
- Serve as the go-to expert for your categories, ensuring merchandising aligns with customer values.
- Align with Finance on financial matters through collaboration with your assistant buyer.
- Work with Business Development to identify and convert new account opportunities for recurring partner flow.
Reporting & Process Improvement Responsibilities:
- Lead Quarterly Business Review (QBR) Meetings with SLT & VP for assigned partners.
- Collaborate with allocation/pricing/ supply chain to measure productivity of partner accounts.
- Document and implement best practices to continuously improve partner management process.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Purchasing -
Industries
Retail
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