SENIOR PURCHASING MANAGER

Senior Purchasing Manager, LMR

Welcome to LM Restaurants

LM Restaurants is an award-winning family-owned restaurant company focused on nourishing our people, community, and our world. At LM Restaurants, we are large enough to provide the stability and comprehensive benefits of a large company, yet small enough to consider our team members' family.

You Will Be Successful

The Senior Purchasing Manager plays a critical role in driving cost savings, operational efficiency, and profitability by developing and executing strategic procurement initiatives. This role is responsible for negotiating vendor agreements, optimizing food and equipment costs, identifying new sourcing opportunities, and ensuring the seamless supply of high-quality products to all restaurant locations. The ideal candidate is a proactive thinker who brings data-driven insights and cost-saving opportunities to company leadership.

Benefits You Will Enjoy

• Competitive Salary
• Career Advancement Opportunities
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision insurance
• Company-paid Short-Term Disability and Life Insurance
• 401(k) with company contribution up to 4%
• Paid time off and flexible schedules
• Generous employee dining discounts
• Lucrative referral bonus program
• Tuition reimbursement program

Job Responsibilities

• Create sourcing processes and develop category strategies
• Drive key insights for capacity analyses for short and long-term business continuity planning
• Protect the supply chain and company margins by ensuring best-in-class contract execution
• Collaborate with the culinary team to source new products and supplier capability evaluation.
• Lead and develop the purchasing team including establishing processes, and scorecards
• Develop strategic supplier relationships to negotiate pricing and ensure commitments are met
• Analyze spending and develop sourcing and continuous improvement plans
• Monitor performance, and propose plans for managing risk and embracing opportunities
• Understand market conditions to project needs and opportunities in demand or supply chain and proactively propose short - and long-term actions
• Implement a framework for bringing together cross functional teams together to ensure accurate theoretical costing
• Be available and ready to step in and provide direction and support during supply chain crises
• Key business partners: COO, VP of Operations, Sr Di