Purchasing Manager: Homebuilding

Purchasing Manager, Homebuilding
Winchester Carlisle Companies, Dunhill Homes, DFW

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Responsibilities

• Supervise and evaluate staff with supervisor approval.


• Motivate and train Purchasing Team.


• Lead weekly team meetings, provide direction on company goals and objectives.


• Responsible for monitoring and reporting costs through analysis of changes in costs from month to month.


• Provide training and direction for team to accomplish cost establishment and budgeting.


• Coordinate cost establishment and bid process between Purchasing Agents, Suppliers and Construction Team through monitoring the purchasing product development schedule.


• Work closely with the Construction Team to ensure that Supplier and material needs are being meet.


• Assist Construction Team with Supplier and subcontractor issues and intervene as necessary to assure maximum productivity.


• Provide liaison between Construction Team and Purchasing Team on communicating takeoff and pricing recommendations.


• Review of cost variations, extras, and budget to actual comparisons to determine resolutions, corrections, and improve overall budgets.


• Establish an effective competitive bid environment and research new suppliers.


• Develop good working relationships with quality subcontractors and suppliers.


• Negotiate pricing and terms with suppliers and make recommendations for any vendor changes.


• Communicate plan change correction needs to Architecture Team as needed.

Knowledge

• Experience in Production Homebuilding Purchasing is required.


• Experience with purchasing software required, Hyphen Solutions - BRIX/BuildPro preferred.


• Must have knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook
  

Skills and Abilities

• Extremely well organized, able to multi-task and prioritize


• Attention to detail and persistence in follow-up


• Strong sourcing and supply chain skills


• Ability to analyze numbers and information providing clear reporting.


• Ability to estimate accurate material/labor quantities on building materials.
  

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, or other related field; experience in lieu of degree may be accepted


• 4 years Homebuilding Purchasing experience required.


• Production home building experience required.