Purchasing Manager
Toll Brothers
- Westborough, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- 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
- 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 programs, specifically Excel, and aptitude to learn new software programs (E1)
- Preferred:
- Hands-on residential construction experience
- Supply Chain certification
- Experience with EnterpriseOne (E1) and BuildPro software
- Experience with Energy Star requirements, Green Building concepts, sustainability, etc.