Purchasing & Cost Control Manager

All hotel purchasing activities include ordering, receiving, storing, and distributing goods in line with brand standards and operating procedures. Maintains an approved vendor list to ensure quality and value. Manages all major Food, Beverage, and Retail inventories, ensuring accurate controls and consistent stock levels. Monitors costs, analyzes consumption, supports month-end inventory processes, and drives cost-efficient operations without compromising guest experience. CANDIDATE PROFILE Education and Experience•Associate’s degree and at least 3 years of related experience; or a bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of related experience; or, at least 5 years of progressive experience in hotel accounting, Purchasing or a related field.•Supervisory experience required.•Must be able to convey information and ideas clearly. Must be able to evaluate and select among alternative courses of action quickly and accurately.•Must be effective in handling problems in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying, and solving problems as necessary.•Must have the ability to assimilate complex information, data, etc. from disparate sources and consider, adjust, or modify to meet the constraints of the need.•Must be effective at listening to, understanding, clarifying and resolving the concerns and issues raised by co-workers and guests.•Must be able to work with and understand financial information and data, and basic arithmetic functions.•Demonstrated experience with key operational and financial systems, including POS platforms and Microsoft Office tools, supporting procurement, financialreporting, and operational efficiency; experience with BirchStreet, Coupa and POS is considered a plus.CORE WORK ACTIVITIESManaging Work, Projects, and Policies, and Standards for Purchasing Across Departments•Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.•Compiles, codes, categories, calculations, tabulates, audits, or verify information or data.•Assures sanitation compliance.•Assists all the department Head in all aspects of purchasing (e.g., Food, Beverage and Controllable) to ensure quality and profitability.•Orders for all food and beverages based on business needs.•Assists Executive Chef and Director of F&B in maintaining/lower budgeted food, beverage and/controllable costs.•Delegates and enforces first in/first out inventory rotation for all storeroom products.•Maintains sanitation and safety standards as specified in the brand guidelines.•Ensure that proper safeguards are in effect for the security of the food and beverage storeroom assets.•Enforces item use-up with storeroom personnel and kitchen management to keep inventory at lowest level possible levels.•Communicates with kitchen, restaurant management and vendors to ensure timing of deliveries satisfies advanced food production needs.•Checks invoice on goods received against shipment to ensure quantity, quality, weights and purchase specifications are as ordered.•Uses existing computer programs to perform daily and month-end food and beverage costs.•Maintains inventory controls for proper levels, dating, rotation, requisitions, etc.•Completes administrative tasks on a timely basis (e.g., C-7s, menu costing, general office duties).•Completes month-end inventory according to Food and Beverage and Accounting standard operation procedures.•Calculates figures for food and beverage inventory.•Ensuring that price and product availability issues are communicated as needed to all the relevant HOD’s.•Receives and inspects all deliveries as this role.•Maintains an accurate controllable log and beverage perpetual.•Ensures accurate administration of all invoices, and adherence to proper bookkeeping procedures.Supporting Purchasing Operations•Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound