Purchasing Manager

Hueman Professional Recruitment; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hueman Professional Recruitment is seeking a Purchasing Manager for a hybrid role serving multiple locations including Gainesville, VA; Toms River, NJ; and Denver, NC. Weekly in-office presence is expected, with oversight of company-wide purchasing and vendor management.

The role focuses on sourcing custom materials and stocked inventory, building scalable purchasing processes, strengthening vendor relationships, and driving meaningful cost savings across the organization.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of purchasing, procurement, sourcing, or vendor management experience.
• Experience in a multi-location, construction, installation, distribution, field service, home services, or branch-based organization.
• Track record of negotiating vendor agreements and delivering cost savings.
• Experience purchasing stocked inventory, custom materials, service parts, supplies, equipment, and contracted services.

Responsibilities

• Own company-wide purchasing policies, procedures, controls, and approval requirements.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships, negotiate pricing, rebates, payment terms, freight, lead times, warranties, and service expectations.
• Analyze organizational spending to reduce costs, consolidate vendors, and improve purchasing leverage.
• Oversee purchasing for custom materials, stocked products, service parts, equipment, and indirect services.
• Partner with branches, warehouses, service, sales, and operations to ensure materials are available when needed.
• Support inventory planning, stocking levels, warehouse transfers, and reduction of excess/obsolete inventory.
• Develop vendor scorecards and track savings, delivery performance, quality, fill rates, and service levels.

Skills

Negotiation

Vendor management

Analytical skills

Inventory planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

A Hueman partner is looking for a Purchasing Manager in one of the following locations (Gainesville, VA or Toms River, NJ, or Denver, NC). This will be a hybrid role with the expectation of being in office on a weekly basis.

We are seeking a Purchasing Manager to lead procurement and vendor management for a growing, multi-location residential and commercial garage door installation and service company.

This role will oversee the purchasing of custom job materials, stocked inventory, service parts, installation supplies, equipment, and indirect services. The Purchasing Manager will build scalable purchasing processes, strengthen vendor relationships, improve material availability, and identify meaningful cost-saving opportunities across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines strong negotiation and analytical skills with a practical understanding of branch operations, inventory, warehousing, construction, installation, or field service environments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own Company-wide purchasing policies, procedures, controls, and approval requirements.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships and negotiate pricing, rebates, payment terms, freight, lead times, warranties, and service expectations.
• Analyze organizational spending and identify opportunities to reduce costs, consolidate vendors, and improve purchasing leverage.
• Oversee purchasing for custom materials, stocked products, service parts, equipment, supplies, and indirect services.
• Partner with branch, warehouse, service, sales, and operations teams to ensure materials are available when needed.
• Support inventory planning, stocking levels, warehouse transfers, and the reduction of excess or obsolete inventory.
• Develop vendor scorecards and track savings, delivery performance, quality, fill rates, and service levels.

Job Requirements:

• Five or more years of purchasing, procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or vendor management experience.
• Experience in a multi-location, construction, installation, distribution, field service, home services, or branch-based organization.
• Demonstrated success negotiating vendor agreements and delivering measurable cost savings.
• Experience purchasing a mix of stocked inventory, custom materials, service parts, supplies, equipment, and contracted services.