Field Procurement Leader - Inventory & Cost Savings

E. Dennis Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electrical, LLC; Nashville (TN); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 115 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Apex Service Partners in the Southeast region is hiring a Market Area Procurement Specialist. You will act as the local execution arm of Regional Procurement, traveling 30-40% to work directly with suppliers, warehouses, and field teams to translate regional strategies into local execution.

The role focuses on improving purchasing discipline, inventory performance, supplier accountability, and cost efficiency in non-traditional procurement activities across markets.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in procurement, supply chain, inventory, distribution, or related field.
• Ability to analyze spend, pricing, inventory, and operational data.
• Strong supplier-management, negotiation, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
• Advanced Excel capability; experience with Coupa, ServiceTitan, Power BI or similar platforms preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; travel regularly.

Responsabilités

• Build productive supplier relationships while holding vendors accountable to negotiated pricing, service levels, and program requirements.
• Conduct supplier, invoice, cost, and counter-visit audits; identify pricing discrepancies and pursue corrective action and credits.
• Validate rebate performance, contract utilization, and supplier compliance; escalation as needed.
• Lead warehouse and inventory reviews, including ABC analysis, cycle-count discipline, min/max settings, stockout risk, excess inventory, and obsolete material.
• Partner with operations to optimize warehouse and technician truck stock around demand, service levels, and working-capital goals.
• Support and monitor vendor-managed inventory and consignment programs, including controls, reconciliation, and performance reporting.
• Improve material availability while reducing emergency purchases, outside spend, duplication, and unnecessary inventory investment.
• Implement regional and national procurement programs with local market teams and ensure requirements are understood, adopted, and sustained.
• Drive purchasing process adherence, approved-vendor utilization, purchase-order discipline, and Coupa adoption.
• Train and support local users, resolve workflow issues, and identify root causes behind noncompliant or inefficient purchasing activity.
• Partner closely with Market Area Presidents, General Managers, warehouse leaders, service leaders, accounting, and field teams.
• Execute procurement components of 100-day M&A plans, including supplier conversion, price-book and material implementation, purchasing controls, and inventory alignment.
• Assess acquired-company spend, vendors, inventory practices, and process gaps; establish action plans with measurable milestones.
• Identify and deliver local sourcing, standardization, savings, cost-avoidance, and credit-recovery opportunities.
• Maintain accurate savings pipelines, implementation updates, issue logs, and performance reporting for regional and market leadership.

Connaissances

Supplier management

Negotiation

Excel

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Travel readiness

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, or related field

Outils

Coupa

ServiceTitan

Power BI

Description du poste

Apex Service Partners in the Southeast region is hiring a Market Area Procurement Specialist. You will act as the local execution arm of Regional Procurement, traveling 30-40% to work directly with suppliers, warehouses, and field teams to translate regional strategies into local execution.

The role focuses on improving purchasing discipline, inventory performance, supplier accountability, and cost efficiency in non-traditional procurement activities across markets.