Purchasing & Supply Chain Director

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At Royal Electric Company we provide expert electrical design, construction, and service with builders, contractors and facility owners who value relationships, trust, expertise, and a commitment to each other towards achieving exceptional results.

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We have a current opening for a Purchasing & Supply Chain Director located in our Dallas, TX office.

The Purchasing Directoris responsible for developing and executing the company’s procurement&supply chain strategy to support electrical construction operations across all business units. This role oversees strategic sourcing, vendor management,purchasingoperations, inventory optimization, and material planning to ensure projects receive quality materials on time and at the best overall value. The Purchasing Director partners closely with Operations, Estimating, Project Management, Warehousing, and Executive Leadership to improve profitability, reduce risk, and strengthen supplier relationships.

• Develop and execute the company’s purchasing strategy aligned with business growth objectives.

• Establish procurement standards, policies, and governance across the organization.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to increase purchasing efficiency and reduce operational costs.

• Develop purchasing KPIs and executive dashboards to measure organizational performance.

• Develop strategic sourcing programs for equipment, commodities, and construction materials.

• Negotiate national purchasing agreements with manufacturers and distributors.

• Build&maintainpreferred supplier programs that maximize pricing, service, and availability.

• Evaluate supplier performance through formal scorecards measuring quality, delivery, responsiveness, pricing, and financial stability.

• Identifysecondary sourcing strategies to mitigate supply chain disruptions.

• Partner with Estimating during preconstruction to develop procurement strategies.

• Support Project Managers with procurement planning and long-lead equipment management.

• Coordinate purchasing activities across multiple concurrent construction projects.

• Resolve critical material shortages and supplier issuesimpactingproject schedules.

• Partner with warehouse operations tooptimizeinventory levels and stocking strategies.

• Improve inventory turns whilemaintainingappropriate service levels.

• Reduce excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory.

• Implement just-in-timepurchasingwhere operationallyappropriate.

• Lead implementation and optimization of procurement technologies,ERP,MRP, PMsystems, supplier portals, and purchasing automation.

• Improve purchasing workflows through electronic approvals, vendor integrations, and data analytics.

• Utilize spend analysis and reporting tools toidentifycost savings opportunities.

• Drive digital transformation initiatives within procurement operations.

• Develop annual purchasing budgets and savings initiatives.

• Monitor commodity pricing trends and market conditions affecting material costs.

• Partner with Finance to improve working capital through purchasing strategies and supplier payment terms.

• Evaluate total cost of ownership and return on investment for procurement initiatives.

• Maintain architecture diagrams, SOPs, policies, and technical documentation.

• Establish infrastructure standards, configuration baselines, and governance frameworks.

• Maintain IT onboarding documentation and environment data.

• Establish strategic relationships with manufacturers, distributors, logistics providers, and key service vendors.

• Negotiate and administer contracts including pricing agreements, rebates, service level agreements…