Senior Purchasing Manager

Are you a strategic purchasing and inventory leader who loves bringing structure to complexity, improving inventory accuracy, strengthening controls, and developing high-performing teams
?

Builders Source Inc. (BSI) is seeking a Senior Manager, Purchasing & Inventory Controls to lead purchasing, inventory management and accuracy, returns, vendor recovery, and inventory-control processes across our appliance business.

This role serves as the control tower for the inventory transaction—from purchase through final disposition
. You’ll establish standards and decision rights, lead the Purchasing & Inventory Controls team, strengthen vendor partnerships, and create the visibility and accountability needed to protect inventory, working capital, and the customer promise.

At BMD, Inc., we’re proud to be a 100% employee-owned company
, which means our employee-owners have the opportunity to share in the success they help create through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

As the Senior Manager, Purchasing & Inventory Controls, you’ll provide strategic and hands‑on leadership across the function, including:

• Lead purchasing and inventory controls
  , establishing clear standards and accountability for purchasing execution, inventory accuracy, transaction discipline, returns, vendor recovery, aged inventory, and control reporting.
• Oversee the purchasing lifecycle
  , including purchase‑order execution, order status, vendor follow‑up, delayed orders, exceptions, and special‑order product.
• Own inventory accuracy and controls
  , including cycle‑count programs, variance thresholds, inventory adjustments, root‑cause investigations, corrective actions, and recurring‑error reporting.
• Lead returns and disposition controls
  , ensuring returned product has proper authorization, ownership, reason codes, disposition paths, vendor‑credit decisions, due dates, and documented next steps.
• Drive vendor recovery
  , including return authorizations (RAs), vendor credits, aging, outstanding credit dollars, and final inventory treatment.
• Manage aged and special‑order inventory
  , identifying stranded, obsolete, or stalled inventory and driving timely action and escalation.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for inventory accuracy, cycle‑count variance, return cycle time, disposition aging, vendor recovery, outstanding RA/credit dollars, and aged‑stock exposure.
• Develop and lead the team
  , coaching Purchasing, Inventory Control, Returns/Vendor Recovery, and support employee‑owners while clarifying roles, building bench strength, and driving accountability.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Sales, Customer Experience, Operations, Finance, and vendors to strengthen handoffs, improve inventory visibility, and support customer commitments while maintaining appropriate controls and segregation of duties.
• Drive continuous improvement
  , using purchasing and inventory data to identify control failures, vendor issues, financial exposure, working‑capital opportunities, and process improvements.

• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in purchasing, inventory management, inventory controls, supply chain, distribution, or a related function preferred.
• 3+ years of people or functional leadership experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Operations, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field preferred; equivalent progressively responsible experience may be considered.
• Experience in multi‑location distribution, retail, appliances, building products, or another inventory‑intensive environment strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with cycle counts, inventory adjustments, variance/root‑cause analysis, returns disposition, vendor credits, RA recovery, aged inventory, and…