Purchasing Director

About the role

Prime Source Expense Experts, a Buyers Edge Platform brand, is a national GPO consulting firm helping post-acute care facilities - skilled nursing, assisted living, and rehabilitation centers, reduce costs and optimize vendor relationships across every operational category. We are growing rapidly and building out a dedicated Purchasing Department to match the scale of our member network. Buyers Edge Platform is a leading digital procurement network and solutions provider for the foodservice industry, delivering savings, insights, and technology that help operators, distributors, and manufacturers succeed. Through its portfolio of solutions-including Digital Procurement Network, Fresh Services, Software Solutions, and Supply Chain Management-Buyers Edge is reshaping how the foodservice industry connects and thrives. At the heart of our work is a culture built on a passion for collaboration, technology, and helping foodservice business succeed. We are unable to offer work sponsorship for this role .

Responsibilities

• Vendor Strategy and Deal Making
• RFP and Bid Management
• Lead structured, professional bidding processes for new and existing clients. Gather comprehensive data, negotiate directly with competing vendors, and deliver well-supported recommendations. Manage competitive bids from initiation through vendor selection.
• Pricing Audits and Compliance
• Client Support and Onboarding
• Vendor Engagement and Issue Resolution
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all vendor-related purchasing issues. Improve response times, resolve escalations, and maintain consistent professional engagement. Maintain regular contact with all active vendors to strengthen relationships and stay ahead of market changes.
• Team Leadership and Scaling
• Build and lead a procurement support team including client-facing procurement associates. Develop processes and playbooks that allow the department to scale without bottlenecking around one person. You are building a department, not just filling a role.
• Business Development Through Vendor Relationships
• Originate new vendor partnerships that benefit our member network. The best version of this role generates revenue, through internal vendor-to-vendor connections, referral arrangements, and category deals that Prime Source did not have before you walked in the door.
• About you:
• Required
• 3+ years of experience in procurement, purchasing, vendor management, or strategic sourcing
• Strong negotiation skills with a track record of delivering measurable cost savings
• Vendor relationship skills, people know you, take your calls, and want to do business with you
• Business development instinct to see a gap and fill it, not by selling to customers, but by making vendor deals
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to manage multiple vendor relationships simultaneously
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and follow-through capabilities
• Leadership experience or the clear readiness to build and lead a small, growing team
• Ability to operate independently without ne

Benefits

Additional Information

The Purchasing Director is the first dedicated hire within our growing Purchasing Department. This is a senior, high-impact position for someone who combines deep procurement expertise with a business development mindset. You are not a traditional buyer. You are someone who can walk into a vendor relationship, negotiate a deal, build a contract, and bring real value back to our clients and to Prime Source. You will own day-to-day vendor execution across all categories, lead and grow a procurement support team, and serve as the primary operational point of contact between Prime Source, its vendor partners, and its clients. This is not a remote role, we work in-person, we move fast, and we expect results.

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