What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Purchasing Manager position at Lighting Maintenance Inc?
We’re not looking for an order-taker. We’re looking for a dealmaker.
Lighting Maintenance Inc. is seeking a high-impact, results-driven Senior Purchasing Manager who knows how to push vendors, challenge pricing, and drive real cost savings across a growing electrical and lighting contractor operating in multiple states. This is a hands-on, fully engaged role for someone who thrives in fast-paced construction environments and understands how to leverage volume, relationships, and competition to win.
If you’ve spent the last decade negotiating with suppliers, rental companies, and vendors, and you know how to extract value while maintaining strong partnerships—this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all purchasing activities across service and construction divisions
- Aggressively negotiate pricing with suppliers, rental companies, and vendors
- Develop and maintain competitive vendor relationships to drive cost savings
- Support estimating and bidding teams with accurate, competitive material and equipment pricing
- Coach managers and coordinators across divisions on purchasing best practices
- Standardize procurement processes and eliminate inefficiencies
- Oversee deliveries and material flow at the local warehouse
- Ensure accountability across all purchasing decisions—no passive approvals
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and implement measurable improvements
- Partner with leadership to align purchasing strategy with company growth goals
Financial & Process Oversight
- Strong working knowledge of accounting fundamentals as they relate to purchasing
- Full ownership and understanding of the requisition-to-payment cycle, including:
- Requisitions and approvals
- Purchase Orders (POs) creation and tracking
- Material receiving and verification
- Invoice matching and reconciliation
- Approval workflows and controls
- Ensure accuracy and discipline across PO issuance, receiving, and invoicing processes
- Collaborate with accounting to maintain clean, auditable procurement records
- Drive process improvements that increase efficiency and reduce administrative overhead
Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain within construction, electrical, or similar industries
- Proven track record of successful negotiation with vendors, suppliers, and rental companies
- Deep understanding of construction materials, equipment, and pricing dynamics
- Strong financial and operational acumen, including procurement workflows and cost control
- Experience supporting estimating and bidding operations
- Ability to influence and coach internal teams to improve purchasing performance
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven
- Polished communicator with strong presence and leadership capability
What Success Looks Like
- Measurable reduction in material and rental costs
- Improved consistency and discipline across all divisions
- Strong vendor competition and pricing leverage
- Streamlined procurement processes with minimal waste
- Increased support and alignment with estimating and operations teams
Compensation
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Performance-based incentives tied to measurable savings and results
- Full benefits package
Bottom Line
If you’re someone who accepts vendor pricing at face value, this isn’t the job.
If you’re someone who knows how to push, negotiate, and deliver real financial impact—while building a scalable, disciplined purchasing function—we want to talk.
BENEFITS PACKAGE:
- Performance Bonus Program
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision Care Plan
- Prescription drug coverage
- Disability benefits (Employer-paid)
- Life insurance and AD&D (Employer-paid)
- Paid holidays
- PTO
- 401(k)
Compensation is commensurate with experience and ability.
LMI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
We’re proud to provide you not just a job, but a career and a rewarding professional opportunity to refine your skills and add new ones. You’ll be helping us maintain our leadership in the lighting industry. Our pledge is a workplace that is open, cooperative, respectful and dynamic, designed to bring out your best, and LMI’s best.
The LMI Open Door Policy, empowers our employees to take problems to the next management level, and resolve them with your immediate supervisor. We also invite suggestions for ways we can improve productivity, efficiency and safety. At LMI the safety and well-being of employees, customers and the public are our top priorities.
Salary : $84,999 - $100,000