Purchasing Manager

**JOB SUMMARY**

Responsible for following established procedures in ordering of items. Formulates an approved vendors list encompassing all categories.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**

**Education and Experience**

4-year bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting or related major. or a minimum of 2 years’ experience in Purchasing or a related field.

**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**

**Managing Work, Projects, Policies, and Standards for Purchasing Across Departments**
- Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
- Compiles, codes, categorizes, calculates, tabulates, audits, or verifies information or data.
- Assures sanitation compliance.
- Assists Executive Chef in all aspects of purchasing (e.g., Food, Beverage and Controllable) to ensure quality and profitability.
- Orders all food and beverage based on business needs.
- Assists Executive Chef in maintaining/lower budgeted food/controllable costs.
- Assists All Department Heads and Executive Members in all aspects of Capex Project.
- Maintains sanitation and safety standards as specified in the brand guidelines.
- Enforces item use-up with storeroom personnel and kitchen management to keep inventory at lowest level possible levels.
- Communicates with kitchen, restaurant management and vendors to ensure timing of deliveries satisfies advanced food production needs.
- Ensures that price and product availability issues are communicated as needed to the F&B Director and Executive Chef.
- Ensures all LSOP's are adhered to by all employees.
- Demonstrates knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.
- Uses computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Uses relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.

**Supporting Purchasing Operations**
- Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
- Ensure disciplinary situations are addressed in timely fashion and with consistency.
- Ensures performance reviews are completed on a timely basis for supervisors and non-management employees.

**Maintaining Finance and Accounting Goals**
- Submits reports in a timely manner, ensuring delivery deadlines.
- Ensures profits and losses are documented accurately
- Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc
- Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Monitors all taxes that apply, ensuring that taxes are current, collected and/or accrued.

**Additional Responsibilities**
- Analyzes information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Interacts with kitchen staff, vendors and Executive Chef.
- Uses existing computer programs effectively to post invoices, update items and costs.
- Attends and participates in all pertinent meetings.
- Provide direction and assistance to other organizational units regarding accounting and budgeting policies and procedures, and efficient control and utilization of financial resources.
- Informs and/or updates the executives, the peers and the subordinates on relevant information in a timely manner.

**Managing Discipline Work, Projects, and Policies**
- Coordinates and implements accounting work and projects as assigned.
- Coordinates, implements, and follows up on audits for all areas of property operations.
- Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
- Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Compiles, codes, categorizes, calculates, tabulates, audits, or verifies information or data.
- Balances ledgers.

**Supporting Property Operations**
- Works with operations teams to develop an operational strategy that is aligned with the brand’s business strategy and leads its execution.
- Reviews comment cards, guest satisfaction results and other data to identify areas of improvement.
- Evaluates if discipline teams are meeting service needs and provides feedback to teams.
- Participates in walk-throughs on property to ensure that all areas are well maintained and preventative maintenance processes are in place.
- Tours building on a regular basis speaking with employees and guests to understand business needs and assess operational opportunities.
- Reviews findings from comment cards and guest satisfaction results with leadership team and ensures appropriate corrective action is taken.
- Works with team to put sustainable work processes and systems in place that support the execution of the strategy.
- Reviews reports and financial statements to determine operations performance against budget.
- Communicates a clear and consistent message regarding