Purchasing Manager
Job Description
Reporting to the Director, Finance & Business Support, the Purchasing Manager is responsible for:
Receiving
- Receiving all deliveries to the hotel, including food, beverage, and miscellaneous items.
- Verify quality and freshness of perishable items; return any that do not meet standards.
- Weigh high-cost items and check against invoices, report discrepancies.
- Maintain detailed logs of all deliveries, include date, time, invoice amount, and recipient.
- Process food & beverage invoices according to hotel and accounting procedures.
- Secure invoices and deliver to accounting daily.
- Complete monthly inventories of food and beverage items.
Requisitions
- Manage requisitions from storeroom for cooks, bartenders, and servers.
- Ensure all products needed for shifts are requisitioned before end of day.
- Maintain minimum inventory levels for smooth operations.
- Maintain liquor perpetual inventory and enforce empty bottle exchange policy
Cost Control
- Keep liquor storeroom locked when unattended.
- Report inventory discrepancies immediately to Director of Food & Beverage.
- Conduct monthly food and beverage inventories and complete cost worksheets.
- Code invoices for monthly P&L reporting.
- Source competitive bids for all orders to optimize cost efficiency.
Food Safety & Organization
- Maintain storeroom and coolers in clean, organized condition.
- Follow FIFO procedures and monitor expiration dates.
- Ensure all items are dated and priced.
Maintaining Finance and Accounting Goals
- Submits reports in a timely manner, ensuring delivery deadlines.
- Ensures profits and losses are documented accurately
- Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc
- Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Monitors all taxes that apply, ensuring that taxes are current, collected and/or accrued.
Other Duties
- Maintain par levels of essential supplies.
- Work with vendors on various tasks.
- Coordinate shipping of packages for the hotel.
- Ensure proper operation and sanitation of dish machine.
- Operate all equipment safely and as designed.
- Uses computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Uses relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Keeps up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
- Leads a team of two Receiving colleagues and supports their learning and development.
To be aware of and ensure constant compliance with all necessary operational policies including:
- Health and Safety
- Food Hygiene
- Maintenance
- Emergency Procedures
- Liquor Licensing
