Manager, Purchasing

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

Imperial Supplies, a Grainger Company, is a national distributor of quality maintenance products. Serving the fleet maintenance industry since 1958, Imperial has formed lasting relationships with customers by tailoring our services to meet their changing needs.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry.

We’re looking for a results-driven Purchasing Manager to lead our Buying team and drive inventory performance, supplier efficiency, and customer satisfaction. In this role, you’ll be responsible for achieving inventory turnover goals while improving customer fill rates and ensuring product availability across our distribution network at Imperial Supplies. You’ll play a key leadership role—setting priorities, developing your team, and partnering cross-functionally to optimize purchasing strategies and supply chain performance.

Imperial Supplies, a Grainger company, is a national distributor of quality maintenance products. Serving the fleet maintenance industry since 1958, Imperial has formed lasting relationships with customers by tailoring our services to meet their changing needs.

What You’ll Do

• Drive achievement of inventory turnover targets while maintaining or improving customer and distribution center fill rates
• Lead, coach, and develop the Buying team to meet and exceed performance metrics
• Monitor customer fill rates and backorders, prioritizing and expediting orders to meet customer expectations
• Provide leadership with visibility into inventory trends, supply chain challenges, and strategic purchasing opportunities
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to improve sales, margins, product availability, and lifecycle management
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across purchasing, forecasting, and reporting systems
• Strengthen supplier relationships and evaluate supplier capabilities through regular engagement, including trade shows and site visits
• Support special projects and customer-specific purchasing needs

What We’re Looking For

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of purchasing or supply chain experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
• 5+ years of purchasing or supply chain experience
• Prior experience managing and developing a team

What You Bring

• Strong leadership and team development skills
• Ability to analyze data and make strategic, informed decisions
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

Why should you join Imperial?

• Competitive salary   
• Hybrid / Remote schedule
• Monday – Friday work schedule
• Immediate medical, dental, vision; 12 hours of PTO for every full month worked (up to 144 hours a year!), 6 paid holidays and 6% of annual earnings contributed to your retirement, immediately vested!

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, including, but not limited to use of our website, any part of the application, interview or hiring process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.