Director of Purchasing

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the company’s procurement strategy, aligning purchasing activities with project requirements, budgets, and schedules.
• Develop and implement standardized policies, procedures, and systems to ensure compliance, consistency, and efficiency.
• Drive procurement process improvements and support the ongoing Oracle ERP system implementation.
• Provide direction to purchasing managers and agents; evaluate performance and support team development.
• Oversee end-to-end procurement for industrial construction projects, including bid solicitation, vendor selection, contract negotiation, and purchase execution.
• Support complex procurement of subcontractor services, including scope evaluation, technical analysis, and terms and conditions.
• Ensure compliance with company financial, legal, and quality assurance requirements.
• Interface regularly with SVPs, Project Management, Finance, and Legal to ensure alignment on key priorities and project milestones.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, vendors, and subcontractors across relevant trades.
• Identify and qualify new vendors; evaluate vendor performance, pricing trends, capacity, and reliability.
• Provide real-time market intelligence and pricing forecasts to internal stakeholders for budgeting and estimating.
• Support ongoing cost-reduction and value-engineering initiatives across procurement categories.
• Foster a self-starting, change-driven, and collaborative team culture.
• Lead the procurement team in executing against project needs while continuously improving systems and processes.
• Provide guidance on conflict resolution, procurement escalations, and high-value contract negotiations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive procurement experience in the industrial construction sector including technical buying of services (civil, structural, mechanical, piping, E&I, concrete, etc.).
• Proven success managing end-to-end procurement processes and teams.
• Experience negotiating complex contracts and service agreements.
• Deep understanding of procurement best practices, vendor management, material logistics, and contract law.
• Experience working in environments with compliance requirements (e.g., SOX, LEED).