Purchasing Director

An outstanding, full-time opening has become available in the Louisville, KY area for an individual with 10+ years’ experience as a Purchasing Director with a background in the Commercial Construction industry. This position would earn a generous six-figure base salary and a loaded benefits package including medical benefits, a 401K w/ matching, Short/Long Term Disability, Life insurance, PTO and other outstanding perks.

• Negotiate/evaluate vendor/supplier relationships to optimize terms and costs.
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking to assess/mitigate potential supplier and vendor risk.
• Manage 5-10 direct reports across departments.
• Evaluate procedures and systems including auditing compliance and developing KPI metrics/tracking, and reporting.

• Please DO NOT APPLY unless you have 10+ years of Construction related Purchasing experience in a Department Managing/Director level.
• Experience managing the supply chain/purchasing activities for multiple projects/locations/divisions in the US is a MUST.
• Previous experience developing, implementing, monitoring, and auditing supply chain strategies that optimize the efficiency of supply operations is a MUST.
• Experience evaluating procedures and systems including auditing compliance and developing KPI metrics/tracking, and reporting is a MUST.
• Forecasting pricing and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power is a MUST.
• Experience managing 5-10 direct reports consisting of support staff:
  Buyers, Purchasing Coordinators, etc. is a MUST.
• Experience with MS Excel including V-Lookup and PIVOT tables is a MUST.
• Viewpoint or related software is a PLUS.
• Bachelor’s Degree is a MUST.

If interested and QUALIFIED, please send resume in Microsoft Word format to: