Primary Responsibilities
Purchasing Administration
- Supervise, train and motivate Purchasing department employees
- Ensure that the department works closely with the Executive Chef and the Food & Beverage Director to purchase the highest quality products at the lowest prices
- Ensure that all purchase order requests are properly completed and approved
- Negotiate food prices, place required daily food orders and ensure prompt delivery
- Generate purchase orders on approval requisitions and obtain necessary authorization
- Obtain competitive price quotations and confirm purchase availabilities
- Provide the Financial Controller with a monthly summary of purchasing reports
- Coordinate regular inventories with storeroom personnel and department heads
- Coordinate capital project purchases with corporate purchasing and outside contractors
- Cultivate the sound supplier relationships
- Conduct regular quality control audits to ensure staff are performing their duties according to standard guidelines
- Conduct food supplier premise checks with the Chef before registering the supplier as a vendor to ensure supplier compliance with Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) standards
- Conduct surprise audit of receiving and storage areas from time to time to ensure that Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) standards are adhered to
Team Management
- Interview, select and recruit direct reports
- Identify and develop team members with potential
- Conduct performance review with the team
- Constantly monitor team members’ appearance, attitude and degree of professionalism
- Prepare detailed induction programs for new employees
- Develop, conduct maintain all staff training programs for team members, focusing on their development needs, providing them with new skills to meet the changing needs of the business
Other Responsibilities
- Be aware of the hotel fire & life safety/emergency procedures
- Attend all briefings, meetings and trainings as assigned by management
- Maintain a high standard of personal appearance and hygiene at all times
- Perform other reasonable duties assigned by the assigned by the Management
Main Complexity/Critical issues in the Job
To negotiate and obtain competitive pricing for specifications as directed
