Purchasing Agent

Overview

Tri Pointe Homes is about more than homes, we are about people. We are committed to changing the lives of our customers and employees. Our passion for creating communities does not end with our customers. If this sounds like a career for you, apply to be a part of our great team.

Tri Pointe Homes Houston is looking for an experienced individual to join our talented group as a Purchasing Agent.

Timely procure materials and labor at the appropriate quality and quantity, with reasonable/low prices, while fostering healthy relationships with trade partners.

• Prepare and distribute bid packages for new communities and/or plan changes. Negotiate and award trade partner contracts based on best-qualified bids, including those with optimal pricing, quality, workload capacity, and ability to meet established work schedules. Evaluate all bids received to ensure bids are per specs, plan specifics, and include all appropriate details. Manage and update master bid list to include current and new trade partners.
• Negotiate and resolve contract changes/issues and price change requests, including effective and good through dates. Communicate product and pricing changes to Construction, Sales, Customer Care, Design Studio, and other team members as appropriate.
• Negotiate and track all Model Discounts by trade.
• Analyze and understand vendor/trade partner performance, workload, and market issues to ensure all quality, safety, and job completion requirements are met. Team with production/construction on performance management of trader partners.
• Manage construction costs through effective bidding and negotiating of community specifications with trade partners. Possess knowledge of appropriate unit costs, unbundling, takeoffs, and estimating.
• Keep abreast of current construction practices, blueprints, structural design, and building codes to ensure proper contracting of trades.
• Understand best practices to gain efficiency and accuracy and champion new products and processes for consideration and implementation.
• Recommend/Develop standard features for all projects (with Purchasing management and brand/division leadership approval) and work with Purchasing, Options, Sales, and Marketing team members (as applicable) to maintain these features.
• Oversee contract administration input and timelines.
• Ensure accuracy of Scopes of Work with all trade partners and vendors.
• Help produce/manage quarterly Purchasing Department reports creation, distribution, and analysis for assigned communities.
• Understand and maintain the National Contract program with Manufacturers and Vendors for each product.
• Perform cost comparisons and analyses as needed to support Land Acquisition/Due Diligence.
• Interface with architects and structural engineers on product development and innovation.
• Work with the Purchasing Director/Manager to negotiate the base home cost and option costs before total sales prices being finalized. Provide input and help oversee the finalization of Plan Revision Notice pricing.
• Order samples for sales teams, design center, and other subcontractors as needed (i.e. cabinet stain samples for paint subcontractor (for beams, stairs, etc.).
• Work collaboratively with the design studio, sales, construction, customer care, trade partners, and other team members regarding community standards and option issues that arise.
• Keep up with industry trends and research new ideas while being mindful of the end-user – the homebuyer.
• Follow company expectations, including internal control and ethics policies, regarding trade partner and vendor selection/relations and national accounts.
• Work with internal and external business partners on option-related topics, including but not limited to: sourcing new vendors, negotiating option costs, reading and understanding floor plans, identifying and solving practical problems. Also, engage in product development with internal and external partners to ensure a cost-effective base and options upfront before plans are finalized for the bid to contract process.
• Establish, negotiate, manage and contract option pricing for each community.
• Oversee and manage the processing of…