Purchasing Manager

Toll Brothers has been building luxury homes and communities in the best locations in the U.S. since 1967. Today, we’re a Fortune 500 company operating in over 50 markets across more than 20 states. We’re the country’s premier luxury builder with the widest range of products in the industry, including traditional single-family homes, active adult, hi-rise condos, apartment rentals, urban redevelopment, and student housing.

From the homes we build to the talent we recruit, we know that to be the best, we have to work with the best. Toll Brothers is a place where diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and where employees of all backgrounds are treated with fairness, dignity and respect.

Toll Brothers
, America's Leading Luxury Home Builder, is seeking a Purchasing Manager for our office in Houston, Texas.

What is the opportunity?

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for contracting trade partners for labor and material items for each cost code they manage. In this capacity, the individual will work with local trade partners, national/regional suppliers, and distributors to continuously find opportunities for negotiating cost savings for their trade categories.

What are the role’s primary responsibilities?

• Budgeting/Contracting of trade categories in the Division
• Collaborate with Community Planning to develop community specifications and trade budgets for new land deals and new community openings
• Bid, negotiate, and approve trade partner contracts in partnership with division Operations leaders
• Manage contract maintenance and scopes of work updates for their trade assignments
• Partner with Community Planning, Architecture, and other functions to ensure new plan development is looked at through the lens of value engineering and SKU optimization
• Partner with Architecture to ensure national guidance is adhered to for room and option naming
• Recommend strategic sourcing strategies to lower total cost of ownership
• Apply national strategies to local market, unbundling labor and material pricing, where applicable
• Oversee the model home rebate collection process
• Conduct industry benchmarking studies
• Analytics/Process Improvement
• Perform financial analysis of the impact of new and existing contracts
• Determine the financial health of trade partners, notify others of potential problems
• Analyze total spend by trade category, supplier, community, etc. to identify opportunities to leverage spending for greater savings
• Product optimization, SKU demand planning
• Determine optimum product specifications and ensure there is alignment with national and regional agreements
• Optimize overall SKU availability in order to reduce cost, administrative burden and increase procurement accuracy
• Develop an understanding of trade partners’ cost drivers
• Trade Partner Relationship Management
• Facilitate a collaborative environment with trade partners, local distributors and manufacturers
• Measure trade partner performance, track and counsel
• Act as an intermediary with trade partners and Operations personnel to maintain quality standards of production and cost effectiveness

Qualifications

Does this describe you?

• Organizes and articulates ideas clearly and concisely
• Creative problem-solver
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Capable of forward thinking to the benefit of the organization
• Ability to analyze information; identifying discrepancies and inconsistencies
• Specific knowledge and a complete technical understanding of assigned product categories
• Able to utilize department specific technologies to solve business challenges
• Demonstrated ability to monitor progress and make changes as required
• Able to plan and prioritize while focusing on detail orientation and effective time management
• Collaborative and able to work with trade partners and employees across multiple departments

Do you have these qualifications?

• Essential:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Construction Management or Supply Chain Management (or extensive experience in the residential homebuilding industry)
• Minimum 5 years of experience in contracting and negotiating pricing of building materials or some experience in the residential building sector
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office…