Purchasing Supervisor

At Brian Tooley Racing, passion fuels innovation. Founded in 2012, BTR has become a leader in high-performance camshafts, valve train systems, and precision-engineered components for modern American pushrod engines. With advanced in-house capabilities- including CNC machining, Spintron testing, and specialized camshaft grinding, BTR designs, tests, and manufactures products trusted by enthusiasts, engine builders, and racers worldwide. If you're driven by engineering excellence and high-performance innovation, BTR is an exceptional place to grow your career.

Reporting to the Director of Purchasing, the Purchasing Supervisor is responsible for leading the day-to-day activities of the Purchasing Department and ensuring that materials, components, and services are available when required at the best overall value to the Company. This position supervises the Purchasing team and manages key supplier relationships, while driving measurable cost reductions and process improvement through supplier negotiations, strategic sourcing, data analysis, workflow standardization, and continuous improvement.

The Purchasing Supervisor works closely with Operations, Production Planning, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Inventory Control to support production requirements, reduce supply-chain risk, and improve supplier performance. This role is based at our Bardstown, KY location and is fully onsite.

• Manage the complete purchasing cycle, including requirements review, requests for quotation, supplier selection, purchase-order placement, order confirmation, expediting, delivery follow-up, and discrepancy resolution
• Maintain a hands-on portfolio of strategic and complex suppliers, including international suppliers, while ensuring purchasing team members maintain balanced and appropriate supplier portfolios
• Lead supplier negotiations involving price, payment terms, lead times, minimum order quantities, freight, tooling, warranty, rebates, and other commercial terms
• Develop and maintain a measurable purchasing cost-reduction pipeline aligned with annual financial targets and operational priorities
• Use competitive bidding, supplier consolidation, specification review, value analysis, alternate sourcing, volume leverage, and total-cost analysis to reduce costs without compromising quality or continuity of supply
• Establish savings baselines with Finance, track forecast and realized saving, distinguish cost avoidance from verified savings, and regularly report results against established targets
• Analyze purchasing spend, purchase price variance, supplier concentration, fright costs, order frequency, and transactional costs to identify savings and working-capital opportunities
• Partner with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance on supplier transitions, make-versus-buy analysis, design-to-cost opportunities, and other cross- functional cost-reduction initiatives
• Evaluate, qualify, and develop suppliers in partnership with Quality and Operations, including identifying alternate and dual-source options for critical materials
• Monitor supplier performance related to cost, quality, on-time delivery, responsiveness, and lead time. Conduct supplier performance reviews and implement corrective action plans when expectations are not met
• Coordinate supplier non-conformances, returns, credits, warranty claims, and commercial disputes to achieve timely and favorable resolutions
• Identify and communicate supply risks, shortages, capactiy constraints, and market changes, including developing and implementing appropriate mitigation plans
• Measure pruchasing effectiveness and efficiency using established KPIs, including verified cost savings, purchase price variance, supplier on-time delivery, overdue purchase orders, supplier quality, lead-time performance, and purchase-order accuracy
• Standardize purchasing workflows, approval controls, supplier records, and departmental procedures to improve speed, consistency, compliance, and audit readiness
• Maintain accurate supplier, pricing, lead0time, order-quantity, and purchasing data within the ERP system
• Reduce manual effort and avoidable purchasing transactions through workflow improvements, blanket purchase orders, supplier scheduling, reporting tools, automation, and other practical process changes
• Develop and maintain purchasing procedures, work instructions, and standard work. Monitor compliance and conduct follow-up reviews to ensure improvements are sustained
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