Purchasing Manager, Residential

We are an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, youre in the right place.

The Interiors team in our San Francisco office has an opening for a Residential Purchasing Manager.

Location

• San Francisco, CA
• Los Angeles, CA

DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

Position Summary

Join our established design firm as our Residential Purchasing Manager where you will collaborate closely with internal project teams and foster strong vendor relationships. In this role, you will handle the procurement process and are responsible for ensuring efficiency in transactions with the project designer, accounting manager, and vendors. This role is pivotal in advising the project team on quotation, procurement, schedules, expediting, and installation. The success in your role will uphold our commitment to design excellence.

The successful candidate will:

• Work with the Project Team and Accounting to prepare proposals, fund requests, and process purchase orders, deposits, and final balance due payments to vendors.

• Consult with project team on procurement scope, schedule, and budget.

• Finalize design details with the lead designer to obtain proper pricing. Request vendor quotes. Review vendor quotes for proper lead times, pricing, delivery, and freight costs.

• Coordinate vendor payments within the established accounting timeline.

• Submit for the lead designers review submittals, including strike-offs, CFAs, and finish samples, and coordinate the timely return of the submittal response.

• Maintain order logs and create purchase reports per project showing status updates, potential delays, or schedule impacts.

• Facilitate expediting of goods and services procured and manage all related documentation.

• Coordinate shipment logistics through vendors or shippers to ensure arrival of merchandise on site, on time, and in perfect condition.

• Oversee and document all incoming and outgoing inventory.

• Schedule and assist with project installations, including warehousing, site delivery, and installers.

• Manage post-installation situations in a timely manner; follow up with vendors if product does not meet established standards.

• Engage and maintain vendor and third-party relationships.

Required Qualifications

• 3 Years of Residential purchasing experience

• Highly proficient in Studio Designer and Microsoft Office

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Residential and Workplace design

• Basic AutoCAD and Adobe Suite