What You’ll Do:

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing the originating and negotiating the procurement activities of trade goods and services.

Your Key Responsibilities Include:

• Provide new community feasibility costs and bidding and contract new projects with annual re-bidding to ensure the best price.
• Material take-offs, including verification of custom price requests and current and new home, plan value engineering.
• Bid, negotiate, and award contracts for residential purchasing.
• Create and set up new communities to bid in the vendor database.
• Maximize hard cost reductions while maintaining positive business relationships.
• Deliver qualified trade partner resources that are consistently below market cost.
• Identify and implement new methods and materials to lower costs without sacrificing quality or perceived customer value.
• Maintain and manage all documents in the vendor database to include plans, sublists, community information, documentation, etc.
• Coordinate plan changes with architecture on new and active communities.
• Analyze plans for value engineering savings and research cost of proposed design ideas.
• Supervise the Take-off process for new and existing homes.
• Prepare special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Maintain continuity among corporate, division, and local work teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Manage and mentor direct reports.
• Perform other duties as needed or assigned.

What You Have:

• Experience in residential construction, including purchasing and contracts, is preferred.
• Proven negotiating skills.
• The ability to analyze problems, recommend solutions, and maintain effective working relationships with customers, vendors, and other employees within the organization.

Your Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor's Degree is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• 5+ years of purchasing and estimating experience.
• OSHA 10/30 Construction qualification is preferred.

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