Procurement Specialist

Semmelmann Interiors is a premier, award-winning interior design firm specializing in high-end residential and commercial projects. We deliver luxury, innovative, and impeccably crafted spaces with a turn-key, concierge-level client experience. Our team values creativity and collaboration in shaping exceptional interiors that elevate everyday living.

The SSI Procurement Specialist is responsible for protecting margin, controlling risk, and ensuring flawless execution across all sourcing, purchasing, logistics, and vendor coordination for luxury interior design projects.

This role acts as the operational gate keeper between design intent and on site reality ensuring that every specification, proposal, purchase order, and delivery aligns with budget, lead times, quality standards, and client expectations.

This is a role of precision and systems driven execution that enables designers to focus on vision while ensuring SSI delivers profitability, predictability, and without downstream chaos.

• Projects are fully procured on time and within budget
• Vendor pricing is consistent, negotiated, and margin protected
• Orders are accurate, tracked, and proactively managed
• Designers are shielded from procurement friction
• Clients experience white glove execution with zero surprise
• SSI gains vendor leverage, purchasing discipline, and readiness to scale

• Source, price, and procure all FF&E, materials, finishes, lighting, and goods per design specs
• Create, review, and issue purchase orders with exacting accuracy
• Confirm lead times, freight terms, COM requirements, and install readiness
• Track all orders from placement through delivery and installation
• Maintain and continuously refine an approved vendor and trade database
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, freight, and discounts to protect margin
• Enforce vendor compliance with quality, lead times, and communications standards
• Manage backorders, substitutions, damages, and claims with firm authority

• Validate procurement aligns with approved project budgets
• Flag cost overruns, lead time risks, or scope deviations early
• Partner with leadership to improve cost forecasting and margin discipline
• Support trade program pricing integrity

• Coordinate freight, receiving, warehousing, and white glove delivery
• Confirm delivery schedules align with install timelines
• Resolve delivery issues before they impact the client experience
• Maintain accurate status reporting across all active projects

• Maintain clean records in procurement software, PM tools, and accounting systems
• Manage SOPs for purchasing, vendor onboarding, proposals, and PO workflows
• Improve procurement processes as volume and complexity increases
• Prepare procurement reporting for leadership - spend, lead times, vendor performance

• 4-7+ years of experience in procurement, purchasing, or supply chain at a construction, architecture, design, or real estate development firm
• High proficiency in POs, vendor contracts, and invoicing
• High proficiency in lead time management and logistics coordination
• High proficiency in budget tracking and cost controls
• Strong knowledge of business systems, software, and operations
• Strong written communication and vendor assertiveness

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Logistics, or Supply Chain Management
• A propensity for discipline, accuracy, consistency, and follow through
• Comfortable operating in structured systems and repeatable workflows
• Calm, methodical, and composed under pressure, in a client-facing environment

Semmelmann Interiors is a Christian faith-based company with a unique business model and our own exclusive product line. If you are a high-energy, fast-paced, tech-savvy, quick learner, apply now and join our dedicated team! We care about the "who," not just the "what," and are passionate about the work we do in our exciting industry. As a turnkey service providing endless design possibilities, we create things that are unseen, and do the unknown.

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