Purchasing Supervisor

Luther Laycoax

***** **** ****** ******, ** Mirage, AZ 85335 • 602-***-**** • **************@*****.***

Summary

Purchasing supervisor with a track record of success seeking to join a new organization and replicate previously achieved results that included generating an annual purchasing budget designed to lower business costs, improving supplier quality with control and inspection, and generating profits for the company. Highly skilled in performing financial analysis to influence purchasing decisions and managing multimillion-dollar purchasing budgets. Detail-oriented and efficient with fourteen years career experience in purchasing.

Key Qualifications

60 WPM typing speed

10-Key proficient

Payroll experience

Daily financial auditing

Daily procurement

Accounts payable experience

Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel

Knowledge of PeopleSoft

Highly motivated self-starter

Excellent customer service

Knowledge of basic accounting principles

Data entry experience

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Education

Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ May 2018

Associate in Business

3.0 GPA

Greenway High School, Phoenix, AZ May 1998

3.0 GPA

Experience

Purchasing Supervisor – JW Marriott Desert Ridge November 2002 to Present

Manage and maintain culinary and all food and beverage checkbooks monthly

Manage annual food purchases of $7 million holding an annual food cost average of 23.5%

Maintain $800,000 controllable purchases holding a 2.5% cost

Communicate daily with vendors inquiring on best pricing and new products

Process accounts payables for all culinary and food and beverage outlets as well as input all invoices into their according checkbooks

Research invoices and cross check payments while keeping food cost and controls to forecasted budgets

Run end of the month financial reports to view profit and loss

Daily invoice and credit card coding accordance with to the accounts payable standards

Conduct quality control and inspection of all goods received

Restaurant Manager - Arizona Shrimp Farm Restaurant May 2002 to November 2002

Managed and maintained a fine dining atmosphere while ensuring operations were efficiently run

Worked to ensure that guest’s needs were met and were satisfied with services provided

Procured the supplies needed for front and back of house to accomplish their assigned duties

Processed daily audits to keep proper bookkeeping as well as handled the daily bank deposits

Compiled a weekly schedule and payroll and handled all accounts payable

Processed a weekly purchase order for kitchen food, small wares and bar items

Maintained constant communication with all vendors daily

Equipment Recovery Agent - U-Haul International May 1999 to October 2002

Monitored a complete inventory of all rental pieces operating in the company across the entire continental United States

Assisted in filing missing equipment report when confirmed as stolen

Worked with the tow companies in conjunction with U-Haul to call and inquire about the status of a rental contract

Daily data entry input for equipment after research was conducted on lost, missing or stolen equipment

Maintained constant contact with all U-Haul outlets within the United States, as well as those in Canada

Communicated daily with law enforcement regarding the status of a piece of equipment they had discovered

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