Position Summary
The Procurement & Sourcing Manager owns how Premier Home Pros buys, turning demand signals, vendor terms, and landed-cost data into a supply base that delivers the right product, at the right total cost, to the Brunswick Distribution Center and out to its branch network without stalling an install. Premier is a rapidly expanding, multi-state quick turn bathroom-remodeling and flooring platform where product moves from the distribution center through the branches to the customer’s home, so this role sits at the intersection of cost, service, and cash.
The role is responsible for building a resilient, well-diversified vendor base, ensuring landed cost is captured accurately across the product portfolio, maintaining clear visibility into open and in-transit purchase orders, rationalizing the SKU catalog, and strengthening everyday purchasing discipline. It is a builder’s and operator’s role, suited to someone equally comfortable negotiating a container program with an offshore manufacturer and improving the purchasing workflows underneath it, who treats modern, AI-assisted automation as core to how a lean procurement team should operate.
Core Responsibilities
Sourcing & Vendor Diversification
– Diversify the vendor base. Own the strategy to reduce single-vendor dependence and build supply resilience across categories; qualify and onboard secondary and dual-source suppliers while preserving the cost, quality, and relationship benefits of strategic partners, favoring a phased transition over abrupt change.
– Qualify new manufacturers end to end. Run the qualification process from first contact to first production container, including samples, factory audit, category certifications (e.g., cUPC, FloorScore), MOQ and lead-time terms, AQL quality standards, and a pilot before committing volume.
– Own negotiations and vendor relationships. Manage pricing, deposit and payment terms, order cadence, tooling, and capacity commitments; run structured business reviews with key suppliers and track them against service and quality scorecards.
– Manage price changes analytically. When a vendor proposes a price increase, work through a cost-bucket view (materials, labor, freight, FX, margin) to distinguish genuine cost movement from margin expansion, and use competitive bids and volume as leverage in the conversation.
Landed Cost & Cost Management
– Own landed-cost accuracy. Partner with Finance and Logistics so that freight, duty, drayage, and other import costs are consistently captured and loaded to item cost, using a defensible, documented allocation method.
– Think in total cost of ownership. Build tariff, ocean-freight, and FX considerations into sourcing and reorder decisions and into product costing; evaluate dual-source, nearshore, and reshore trade-offs on a landed / TCO basis rather than FOB price alone.
– Track cost variance. Monitor purchase-price and landed-cost variance against standard and model cost, explain the drivers, and provide clean cost signals to Finance for margin and pricing decisions.
Purchasing Operations & PO Discipline
– Own the PO lifecycle. Establish and reinforce entering purchase orders at time of order so open-PO and in-transit visibility is reliable, and support the team in adopting the workflow.
– Run the exception-based order desk. Own the auto-ordering exception queue (backordered and blocked jobs), keep the vendor-to-SKU mapping current, and maintain suggested-PO logic.
– Keep the open-PO book clean. Manage open-PO aging, close out stale POs, and own receipt-to-bill (three-way match) reconciliation so purchasing, receiving, and AP stay aligned.
SKU Rationalization & Catalog Management
– Rationalize the assortment. Lead SKU rationalization across the product portfolio, consolidating duplicative items, standardizing specifications, and phasing out slow-moving and obsolete SKUs in partnership with Product, Sales, and Operations.
– Own item-master integrity. Keep the product and vendor item master clean and mapped across Lead Perfection and Fishbowl (including serialization where applicable) so that cost, sourcing, and planning read from one source of truth.
Demand & Inventory Partnership
– Partner with demand planning. Work with the demand-planning function to convert forecasts into reorder points, order quantities, and container plans, setting safety stock against lead-time variability.
– Balance cash against service. Make the inventory-investment versus stockout and install-delay trade-off explicit with Finance, and manage toward fill rate, days-of-inventory, and healthy turns while keeping excess and obsolete stock in check.
Systems, Data & AI-Enabled Workflows
– Own procurement’s system of record. Act as the procurement owner of Fishbowl (WMS) data and the Lead Perfection and Fishbowl integration; bring requirements-first judgment to the WMS reimplement-versus-replace decision.
– Build the procurement scorecard. Stand up and maintain the metrics leadership sees monthly, including vendor diversification, landed-cost coverage and variance, open-PO cycle time, fill rate, and inventory turns and DOI.
– Automate the manual work. Identify repeatable procurement tasks such as PO exception handling, cost-variance flagging, receipt-to-bill matching, and vendor-cost validation, and prototype AI-assisted or scripted automations (e.g., Claude / agentic workflows) layered on Excel and the data model, in partnership with the CFO and FP&A.
Cross-Functional Partnership
– Finance / CFO. Landed cost, margin, purchase-cost variance, deposits and payment terms, and the cash-versus-service inventory trade-off; support vendor-terms and cost inputs for lender and ownership reporting.
– Operations & the DC. Coordinate with the Distribution Center and Supply Chain Operations on receiving, dock-to-stock, and container flow, and align inbound with DC capacity.
– Sales & install. Tie product availability to sales-to-install timing so that sourcing supports the install calendar.
– Supply Chain leadership. Coordinate closely with the Director of Supply Chain on operations, network, and systems, even though this role reports to the CFO.
Performance Expectations
– Vendor diversification: Progress toward a more diversified, resilient vendor base, with qualified secondary sources in place for critical categories.
– Landed cost: Landed cost consistently captured on receipts, with variance explained and within target.
– PO visibility & discipline: Reliable PO-at-order practice, healthy open-PO aging, and a strong receipt-to-bill match rate.
– Cost: Purchase-price and landed-cost variance versus model, and documented savings from negotiation, dual-sourcing, and SKU rationalization.
– Service & inventory: Fill rate and on-time availability to branches, and inventory turns and DOI held within agreed bands, in partnership with planning.
– Automation: Manual procurement processes converted to automated or AI-assisted workflows, and hours of manual work reduced.
Required Qualifications
– 5+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply-chain management, including direct ownership of vendor relationships and negotiations; experience in a multi-site or distributed operating business preferred.
– Hands-on global and offshore sourcing experience, including qualifying overseas manufacturers, managing container programs, and navigating tariffs, ocean freight, duty, and FX.
– Working command of landed cost and total-cost-of-ownership analysis, including how import costs should be allocated to item cost.
– Experience running purchasing operations in an ERP/WMS environment (POs, receiving, three-way match, item master); strong Excel and analytics skills, with SQL sufficient to pull and validate data a plus.
– Skilled negotiator who can work through a cost build-up and hold suppliers to price, quality, and service commitments.
– Comfort with modern AI tooling, including building automations that reduce manual finance and procurement work, not only using AI chat tools.
– Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to present sourcing strategy and cost analysis directly to executive leadership.
– Must be based in or willing to relocate to the Brunswick, OH area; this is an in-office role at the Distribution Center.
Preferred Qualifications
– Experience with Fishbowl, QuickBooks Online, Lead Perfection, or similar WMS, ERP, and CRM systems.
– Background in building products, home services, residential remodeling, or another durable-goods or distributed field-operations business.
– Familiarity with product certifications and import compliance relevant to plumbing and flooring (e.g., cUPC, FloorScore).
– Professional certification such as CPSM, APICS CPIM/CSCP, or equivalent.
– BA/BS in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Finance, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
Work Style
This is an in-office role at Premier Home Pros’ Brunswick, OH Distribution Center, working in close daily coordination with DC and logistics leadership and in regular partnership with the CFO, FP&A, and the Director of Supply Chain. Periodic travel to operating markets and to key domestic and overseas vendors should be expected.
Pay: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- This role is in-office full-time at our Brunswick, OH distribution center. Are you able to commute there daily, or relocate?
- Have you personally qualified overseas manufacturers and managed import/container programs — including freight, duty, and FX? How many years?
- Have you owned loading true landed cost (freight, duty, drayage) into item cost, or costed suppliers on a total-cost-of-ownership basis rather than FOB price?
- Have you run purchasing operations — PO issuance, receiving, and three-way match — inside an ERP or WMS (e.g., Fishbowl, NetSuite, SAP)?
- How many years have you spent in procurement or strategic sourcing, including owning vendor relationships and negotiations?
Work Location: In person
