Regional Purchasing Manager-Restaurants

Location: Chicago, IL - Levy Restaurants

Responsibilities

People / Development / Training

• Hires, trains and develops personnel to deliver \"The Levy Difference\"
• Promotes a cooperative work climate, maximizing productivity, morale, and professional development, building a strong bench at the location level
• Proactively works with HR and Operations on potential personnel coverage gaps and succession planning
• Aid in onboarding of new location purchasers or, for locations without a dedicated purchaser, personnel who will be taking on purchasing & warehousing duties
• Train team on BOSS and any other relevant systems and processes, to ensure proper inventory management and financial reporting practices are adhered to
• Provide assistance of year-end review of salary team members and key staff members
• Act as dotted line report for location Purchasers
• Serve as mentor for Keys to Future participants

Planning

• In collaboration with Restaurant Culinary and Finance leadership, conducts location menu reviews before seasons and with any changes to ensure menus are costed-out properly, ingredients are sourced and to spec, yield analysis has been completed for all items and program needs are escalated to the Foodbuy team
• Review and publish net cost impact of client required programs and aide client in making programing decisions
• Finance, Culinary and Operations on location forecasts/budgets to deliver profit goals, helps locations identify and own margin enhancing opportunities
• Communicate company-wide Purchasing initiatives and program adjustments
• Conducts monthly menu reviews with culinary teams and creates action plans for \"at risk\" menus in terms of margin, supply, etc.
• Evaluate opportunities to synchronize usages of items within location clusters
• Provide opening and key event support

Buying

• Establish check-in cadence with locations on spend reporting vs. forecasted sales vs. monthly budgets
• Coordinates with locations in identifying the optimal vendor / spec combination and ordering cadence to meet location needs
• Audit of location ordering and BOSS reporting
• Establish programs of suppliers currently not listed as Model Market
• Review and approve of all special order/stock request submissions
• Oversee and manage stock levels of dedicated and high usage items with key purveyors
• Ensure commodity items are purchased at optimal seasons - preventing locations from potential overspend and purchasing sub-par qualities
• Warehouse & Inventory Management

• Assist with purveyor delivery concern solve
• Assist with development of warehousing teams and of labor budgets
• Coordinate inventory schedule with Regional Operations team, review end of month results, and extension reports
• Mobilize teams behind inventory anomalies to identify and address the root cause of issues
• Establish inventory turn goals for all locations, track metric, and hold teams accountable
• Establish drop size goals for all locations, track metric, and hold teams accountable
• Monitor and offer assistance for implementation of slow and dead stock disposition
• Yield analysis to be monitored of draft beer and fountain soda
• Review bi-weekly flash reports to ensure review takes place

Payables / Finance

• Review spend reports with key purveyors, making sure all invoices are closed out and paid in full
• Set monthly targets for p-card spend, monitor p-card reports, and hold teams accountable
• Ensure that all vendors are setup per Compass protocol as they relate to tax and insurance information
• Communicate global pricing updates to location teams so that they can update in our menu builds and inventory systems
• Review late invoice payment reports monthly and escalate issues with Operations leadership
• Review monthly statement reconciliation with locations
• Review month-end accrual log with each location

Levy is an equal opportunity employer. At Levy we are committed to treating all Applicants and Team Members fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.

Associated topics: backend, bakery manager, day shift manager, food service supervisor, front end, frontend, general operations manager, kitchen manager, restaurant general manager, store manager