Director, Purchasing

$109,800 - $183,000/Yr

Lowe's - Mooresville, NC

Full-time - Senior

Mooresville, NC

Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers

About the position

The Purchasing Director is responsible for the comprehensive development, coordination, planning, and communication of merchandise planning and logistics/supply chain strategies that support sales and inventory productivity. This role involves leading purchasing strategies, managing financial plans for a significant division, and ensuring effective inventory allocation and flow strategies to meet corporate objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develops, leads, and executes purchasing strategies to support sales, margin, and turn objectives.
• Leads and guides the development of financial plans for a $500M-$1B division, including sub-division and product group plans.
• Leads analytics and re-forecasting based on current trends and historical data.
• Develops sales, margin, and inventory strategies to support corporate strategies, resets, promotions, and market share initiatives.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, and developing employees.
• Communicates job expectations and evaluates performance of team members.
• Analyzes historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by division/sub-division/product group/vendor.
• Develops effective inventory allocation and flow strategies to support overall productivity and in-stock goals.
• Directs execution of seasonal and item exit strategies and evaluates results of program execution.
• Ensures Purchasing team maintains a company average fill rate in excess of 98%.
• Optimizes internal transfer paths and frequency to minimize internal freight costs.
• Determines quantity and timing of deliveries and maintains accurate ETA information.
• Manages and expands the Special Order process to support OSRs and minimize administrative activities.
• Partners with Sales and Projects teams to implement SLAs aligning with customer expectations for Special Order items.
• Collaborates with Lowe's on all integration initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of experience in Business, Finance, or Supply Chain/Logistics.
• 5+ years of leadership experience with direct report responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience working closely with leadership (Sr. Director and above).
• Demonstrated experience in sourcing and vendor management.
• Ability to travel up to 25 percent of the time.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in retail supply chain management.
• Familiarity with inventory management software.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee discount programs