Leading brand in the hospitality sector are seeking an experienced purchasing professional to join their team.
**Your new company**
Our client is a well known global hospitality brand who have operated a successful boutique hotel in central Hobart for the last 3 years.
Due to the incumbent relocating interstate, an excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced purchasing professional to join their team and manage all purchasing, supplier relationship and consolidation activities.
**Your new role**
Reporting into the Head of Finance, the Purchasing Manager will be responsible for a broad range of activities within the hotel, and ultimately, the timely and cost-effective purchasing of receipt of all goods and service required for successful operation, predominantly across food and beverage related spend.
Key roles and responsibilities will include:
- Managing all supplier contact and negotiation to ensure prices are cost-effective and mutually beneficial
- When relevant, sourcing of new suppliers to ensure continuity of supply
- Management of the purchasing process from requisition through to receipt of goods
- Overseeing the activity of one warehouse-based staff member, who is responsible for inventory management and goods receipting
- Use of Birchstreet ERP to administer the purchasing process
- Reporting on purchasing activities, and identifying and delivering upon opportunities to save cost
**What you'll need to succeed**
To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrable experience operating in a purchasing centric environment, and will have ideally been solely responsible for purchasing activity, in a fast-paced, service-focused environment.
You will also ideally have experience purchasing food and beverages. A background working in a hospitality environment previously would also be quite an advantage.
In saying this, anyone with an end-to-end understanding of purchasing principles and the ability to lead processes and drive improvements will be in a position to be considered. Having previous experience using any defined ERP system is also a requirement to be considered for this opportunity.
**What you'll get in return**
This is an excellent chance for a professional with the right experience to step into a role with overall responsibility over the purchasing activity within a well-respected Hobart entertainment venue.
**What you need to do now**
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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