MANAGER PURCHASING

Join the largest manufacturer of tile and natural stone in the United States and watch your career stand out with Dal-Tile, a subsidiary of Mohawk Industries.

Our close-knit team of dedicated professionals has made us the success we are today. In exchange for their hard work, we support our people with a family-friendly work environment, a commitment to promoting from within, unique benefits that go beyond just medical and dental, and a belief that every employee deserves a productive life outside of work. If this sounds outstanding to you, take the first step forward and explore a career with Dal-Tile.

Job Objective:

The Manager Purchasing is a first-level manager that oversees the day-to-day operations of a purchasing team. This role will be responsible for overseeing and optimizing the procurement process to ensure the timely acquisition of goods and services at the best possible value.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Position:

•            Lead comprehensive data analysis initiatives to cleanse, normalize, and validate historical spend data, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and decision ready insights for procurement and sourcing teams.

•            Develop, standardize, and govern spend taxonomy in collaboration with the Center of Excellence (COE) and Global Ceramics stakeholders to enable consistent reporting, benchmarking, and strategic analysis across regions and categories.

•            Design, build, and maintain interactive dashboards and reporting tools to track spend performance, productivity initiatives, savings realization, and procurement KPIs, enabling timely and data-driven decision making.

•            Develop and implement a Raw Material planning structure, aligning demand forecasting, supply planning, and sourcing strategies to support operational continuity, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.

•            Establish and manage a bottoms up Procurement Annual Operating Plan (AOP) roll up process, consolidating category- and site-level plans into an aligned, enterprise-wide procurement roadmap.

•            Analyze purchasing data and external market trends to identify opportunities for cost reduction, value enhancement, supplier optimization, and supply risk mitigation; translate insights into actionable sourcing strategies.

•            Partner closely with inventory management, supply chain, and operations teams to optimize inventory levels, reduce stockouts, minimize excess inventory, and lower total carrying costs while maintaining service levels.

•            Drive cross-functional collaboration with finance, operations, planning, and sourcing teams to ensure alignment between procurement strategies, financial targets, and business objectives.

•            Continuously improve procurement processes, analytics capabilities, and planning methodologies, embedding best practices and scalable solutions across the organization.

•            Provide leadership, guidance, and subject-matter expertise to team members and stakeholders, fostering a data-driven culture and accountability for performance outcomes.

•            Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, fostering open communication, collaboration, and mutual trust.

•            Perform other duties as needed.

Required Experience and Education:

•            Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and/or experience.

•            6-8 years’ relevant experience or equivalent education and/or experience.

•            1-3 years of management experience.

Competencies:

•            Self-starter with strong ownership mindset

•            Demonstrates initiatives and ability to operate independently

•            Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.

•            Focused on and responsible for their team's productivity and collective impact.

•            Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills.

•            Able to multitask, prioritize, delegate, and manage time effectively.

•            High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.

•            Proficient using Microsoft Suite of products.

•            Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player and able to handle multiple projects at once.

•            High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.

Other Pertinent Job Information:

Disclaimer: It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

•            This employee will be responsible for direct reports.

•            This position may require some travel.

We offer competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, career opportunities, and an environment of creativity and growth.  Examples include:  Company Match on 401k, Employee Purchase Discount, and Tuition Reimbursement.

Dal-Tile is a proud supporter of our U.S. military, veterans and their families - Thank You for Your Service!
Active military, transitioning service members and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.