Senior Purchasing Manager

Builders Source Appliance Gallery; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP)

401(k) with company match

Life & disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Collaborative, employee-owned culture

Job summary

Builders Source Inc. in Albuquerque, NM is seeking a Senior Manager, Purchasing & Inventory Controls to lead purchasing, inventory accuracy and control processes across our appliance business.

This role serves as the control tower for the inventory transaction—from purchase through final disposition—and will establish standards, decision rights, and performance metrics. You’ll lead the Purchasing & Inventory Controls team, strengthen vendor partnerships, and create visibility to protect working

Qualifications

• 7+ years in purchasing, inventory controls, or related field.
• 3+ years of people or functional leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with multi-location distribution or inventory-intensive environments.
• Proven cycle-count, variance analysis, and vendor-credits experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead purchasing and inventory controls with clear standards and accountability.
• Oversee the purchasing lifecycle, order status, and vendor follow-up.
• Own inventory accuracy, cycle counts, and discrepancy investigations.
• Lead returns disposition, vendor credits, and recovery efforts.
• Manage aged and special-order inventory and escalation pathways.
• Establish KPIs for accuracy, aging, and recovery; report findings.
• Develop and coach the Purchasing and Inventory Controls team.
• Partner cross-functionally to improve handoffs and visibility.
• Drive continuous improvement using data to reduce risk and costs.

Skills

Leadership

Inventory management

Analytical skills

Vendor relations

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Operations, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or related field

Tools

ERP systems

Warehouse management systems

Excel dashboards

Job description

Builders Source Inc. - Employee Owned Company | Albuquerque, NM

Starting at: $120K Annual

Are you a strategic purchasing and inventory leader who loves bringing structure to complexity, improving inventory accuracy, strengthening controls, and developing high-performing teams?

Builders Source Inc. (BSI) is seeking a Senior Manager, Purchasing & Inventory Controls to lead purchasing, inventory management and accuracy, returns, vendor recovery, and inventory-control processes across our appliance business.

This role serves as the control tower for the inventory transaction—from purchase through final disposition. You’ll establish standards and decision rights, lead the Purchasing & Inventory Controls team, strengthen vendor partnerships, and create the visibility and accountability needed to protect inventory, working capital, and the customer promise.

At BMD, Inc., we’re proud to be a 100% employee-owned company, which means our employee-owners share in the success they help create!

What You’ll Do

As the Senior Manager, Purchasing & Inventory Controls, you’ll provide strategic and hands-on leadership across the function, including:

• Lead purchasing and inventory controls, establishing clear standards and accountability for purchasing execution, inventory accuracy, transaction discipline, returns, vendor recovery, aged inventory, and control reporting.
• Oversee the purchasing lifecycle, including purchase-order execution, order status, vendor follow-up, delayed orders, exceptions, and special-order product.
• Own inventory accuracy and controls, including cycle-count programs, variance thresholds, inventory adjustments, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and recurring-error reporting.
• Lead returns and disposition controls, ensuring returned product has proper authorization, ownership, reason codes, disposition paths, vendor-credit decisions, due dates, and documented next steps.
• Drive vendor recovery, including return authorizations (RAs), vendor credits, aging, outstanding credit dollars, and final inventory treatment.
• Manage aged and special-order inventory, identifying stranded, obsolete, or stalled inventory and driving timely action and escalation.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for inventory accuracy, cycle-count variance, return cycle time, disposition aging, vendor recovery, outstanding RA/credit dollars, and aged-stock exposure.
• Develop and lead the team, coaching Purchasing, Inventory Control, Returns/Vendor Recovery, and support employee-owners while clarifying roles, building bench strength, and driving accountability.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Experience, Operations, Finance, and vendors to strengthen handoffs, improve inventory visibility, and support customer commitments while maintaining appropriate controls and segregation of duties.
• Drive continuous improvement, using purchasing and inventory data to identify control failures, vendor issues, financial exposure, working-capital opportunities, and process improvements.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in purchasing, inventory management, inventory controls, supply chain, distribution, or a related function preferred.
• 3+ years of people or functional leadership experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Operations, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field preferred; equivalent progressively responsible experience may be considered.
• Experience in multi-location distribution, retail, appliances, building products, or another inventory-intensive environment strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with cycle counts, inventory adjustments, variance/root-cause analysis, returns disposition, vendor credits, RA recovery, aged inventory, and controls reporting.
• Strong analytical and financial skills with the ability to evaluate inventory dollars, aging, turns, variances, recovery exposure, trends, and operational performance.
• Experience with ERP, inventory-management, purchasing, warehouse-management, and reporting systems.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office skills; experience building dashboards or visual controls is a plus.
• Strong leadership, communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and cross-functional relationship skills.

Why This Role Matters

Inventory is one of the most significant assets in our business—and this leader will play a critical role in protecting it, improving it, and creating accountability around it.

The Senior Manager, Purchasing & Inventory Controls will help BSI create one disciplined approach to purchasing, inventory accuracy, returns, vendor recovery, and controls.

What We Offer

Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP)

401(k) with company match

Life & disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

A collaborative, employee-owned culture

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Equal Opportunity Employer

BMD, Inc and Companies is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. BMD, Inc makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.