Director Purchasing

Capital Electric; Upper Marlboro (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital Electric, a regional electrical distributor serving contractors across Maryland and surrounding states, seeks a strategic procurement leader to shape enterprise procurement strategy, governance, and transformation. You will lead supplier and category management, drive high‑impact negotiations, and align with executive leadership on market opportunities.

You will partner with Inventory Management, Operations, and Sales to optimize working capital, inventory turns, and stock levels,

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an enterprise procurement strategy aligned with profitable growth, customer service, margin, inventory, and working capital objectives.
• Establish annual priorities, operating plans, performance targets, and a governance cadence for the procurement organization.
• Lead procurement transformation, process standardization, and adoption of enabling systems, analytics, and continuous improvement practices.
• Provide market intelligence and procurement recommendations to executive leadership to support business planning and investment decisions.
• Own the strategic supplier management framework across major product categories and ensure vendor strategies align with company priorities.
• Lead high-impact negotiations involving cost, rebates, terms, lead times, stocking programs, service expectations, and other commercial agreements.
• Establish supplier scorecards, business reviews, escalation paths, and corrective action plans to improve performance and accountability.
• Drive vendor rationalization, product line reviews, sourcing alternatives, and supplier development opportunities.
• Partner with Inventory Management, Operations, and Sales to establish inventory investment and replenishment strategies that balance availability, turns, and risk.
• Monitor excess, slow-moving, obsolete, reserve, and non-returnable inventory and sponsor recovery, transfer, return, and disposition plans.
• Improve forecasting inputs, purchasing parameters, stock-and-flow strategies

Job description

There’s a Place for You at Capital

A career at Capital Electric is more than a job. You’re investing in a brighter, more sustainable future together and joining a team that makes a real difference for our customers. Capital Electric offers electrical products and services to contractors. If it helps bring electricity to an office, home, factory or other building – you can find it here. We operate in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and are part of the Sonepar group, the world’s #1 electrical distributor with over 45,000 associates around the globe.

Being “Powered by Difference” means we respect and value diverse perspectives. Within Capital Electric, we offer a supportive culture and great benefits, and as part of the larger Sonepar group, we can offer exciting opportunities to grow your career.

There’s a Place for You at Capital

A career at Capital Electric is more than a job. You’re investing in a brighter, more sustainable future together and joining a team that makes a real difference for our customers. Capital Electric offers electrical products and services to contractors. If it helps bring electricity to an office, home, factory or other building – you can find it here. We operate in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and are part of the Sonepar group, the world’s #1 electrical distributor with over 45,000 associates around the globe.

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Procurement Leadership

• Develop and execute an enterprise procurement strategy aligned with profitable growth, customer service, margin, inventory, and working capital objectives.
• Establish annual priorities, operating plans, performance targets, and a clear governance cadence for the procurement organization.
• Lead procurement transformation, process standardization, and adoption of enabling systems, analytics, and continuous improvement practices.
• Provide market intelligence and procurement recommendations to executive leadership to support business planning and investment decisions.

Supplier and Category Management

• Own the strategic supplier management framework across major product categories and ensure vendor strategies align with company priorities.
• Lead high-impact negotiations involving cost, rebates, terms, lead times, stocking programs, service expectations, and other commercial agreements.
• Establish supplier scorecards, business reviews, escalation paths, and corrective action plans to improve performance and accountability.
• Drive vendor rationalization, product line reviews, sourcing alternatives, and supplier development opportunities.

Inventory and Working Capital

• Partner with Inventory Management, Operations, and Sales to establish inventory investment and replenishment strategies that balance availability, turns, and risk.
• Monitor excess, slow-moving, obsolete, reserve, and non-returnable inventory and sponsor recovery, transfer, return, and disposition plans.
• Improve forecasting inputs, purchasing parameters, stock-and-flow strategies