The Purchasing Director will work in tandem with the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and President. The Purchasing Director leads the effective, efficient, and timely selection, procurement, distribution and monitoring of all food, beverage, and restaurant supply products. This position oversees, manages, and directs sourcing, contracting, cost controls and inventory management for all products.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing relationships with all external suppliers and distributors.

• Ensuring compliance with service, quality, and price specifications.
• Primary responsibility for overall food, beverage and restaurant supply costs.
• Implementation and ongoing management of inventory and cost management systems to fully achieve financial and operational benefits.
• Develops and manages strategic sourcing strategy and procurement activities, including optimal pricing and supplier negotiations across all product categories.
• Facilitates ongoing communication between company and third-party consultants and suppliers regarding brand objectives, ingredient integrity, supply chain food safety and all operational matters.
• Leads product selection process including managing samples/approvals and product optimization through frequent collaboration with culinary leadership.
• Partners with culinary team on the identification, sourcing, development, testing and roll-out of profitable and cost-effective new menu items and ingredients.
• Assesses, manages, and mitigates food-related risks through routine oversight of proper supply chain channels.
• Identifies multiple sources for high-risk, single-sourced products.
• Creates and oversees a quality assurance program to ensure specifications for quality, portions and sanitation are established and met.
• Executes opening orders, vendor setup and smallwares coordination for new store openings.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in strategic sourcing and procurement, including excellent negotiation skills and strong knowledge of commodity markets.

• Experience having primary oversight of inventory & cost management and optimization.
• Proven ability to lead quantitative and qualitative analyses supporting critical decisions on vendor selection and product specifications.
• Strong understanding of financial metrics with established track record of driving cost improvement through supply chain initiatives
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally (culinary, operations, finance, IT, marketing) to design and implement operating improvements.
• Ability to combine strategic vision with tactical detail to enable execution.
• Highly organized and detail oriented with the ability to set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to all levels of employees; ability to present complex, detailed information in a simple, summarized format.

Emmy Squared/Pizza Loves Emily is an Equal Opportunity Employer and treats all applicants for employment equally based upon job-related qualifications and without regard to race, sex, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin, disability, religion, political activity, or any other characteristic protected by law.