Purchasing Manager
Description
Are you ready to take the lead in shaping how a growing company sources smarter and delivers better? At DreamSeat, we’re looking for a strategic and detail-driven Purchasing Manager who rolls up their sleeves to play a vital role in driving cost savings, optimizing vendor relationships, and ensuring our customers receive the highest quality seating solutions. This is your opportunity to make a measurable impact in a fast-paced, customization-focused environment where innovation and efficiency go hand in hand.
What you’ll do
In this newly created, fully onsite role based in Landrum, SC, you’ll work directly with the President and a talented team to drive our purchasing operations to the next level.
As Purchasing Manager, you’ll balance strategic oversight with day-to-day purchasing responsibilities. Working directly with the senior leadership team and managing a team of 3 (including 2 remote members), you’ll be responsible for:
- Leading the purchasing team, coaching and mentoring team members
- Developing and implementing purchasing strategies and processes
- Building and maintaining strong vendor relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring best value
- Overseeing purchasing for large projects, office/warehouse supplies, and packaging
- Tracking purchase price variance (PPV) and maintaining vendor data
- Troubleshooting product or vendor issues
- Collaborating with leadership
- Bringing new ideas and solutions to improve efficiency and processes
Who you are
- Strategic, hands-on, and motivated
- Confident in leading a team and managing vendor relationships
- Detail-oriented and proactive problem solver
- Able to balance big-picture planning with tactical purchasing tasks
- Excited to learn our products, processes, and ERP system
What you need to thrive in this role
- 2–3+ years’ experience as a Purchasing Manager
- Supervisory experience managing domestic and/or international team members
- ERP experience
- Strong negotiation, communication, and analytical skills
- Furniture industry experience is a plus, but not required
Why Join Us
- Competitive salary: $80,000–$95,000, depending on experience + bonus plan
- PTO and company holidays
- 401K and health coverage
- Opportunity to lead and grow a critical function in a rapidly expanding company
- Work closely with leadership to shape purchasing strategy and operations
About us
Being a family-owned company, DreamSeat’s corporate culture is built on trust, loyalty and relationships. We strive to provide an atmosphere of inclusion, understanding, and family. Our belief is that work should be fun, and we attempt to keep it light and enjoyable as much as we possibly can.
We’re a fast-growing, creative company shaking up the furniture industry with a people-first approach and bold ideas. Innovating the seating experience is where we excel. For years we have been designing and manufacturing new or custom products for our customers that uniquely meet their needs. Outside of innovation, our main focus is customer service and providing a level of service that in unsurpassed in the industries we serve.
I’m interested. How do I get started?
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