Senior Purchasing Manager
Description
About Century Communities
As one of the nation's largest homebuilders and an industry leader in online home sales, we know what it takes to be a market gamechanger, and that includes providing you with all the resources, opportunities, and benefits to build a thriving and rewarding career.
Benefits We Offer
Team members enjoy an excellent benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with employer match, paid time off and sick leave, plus home and mortgage discounts. We also offer competitive salaries with the potential for discretionary bonuses and/or commission structure (depending on the position).
We Hire The Best
Our mission of building, financing, and insuring A Home For Every Dream™ is only possible with the best talent in the industry. If that’s you—if you’re a self-starter, changemaker and thoughtful collaborator ready to take their career to the next level—then apply today!
What You’ll Do:
The Senior Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing the origination and negotiating of the procurement activities for specific categories 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.
- 5-10 years of purchasing/estimating experience.
- OSHA 10/30 Construction qualification is preferred.
- Knowledge of Sage Timberline Estimating and Job Cost, BuilderMT Workflow Management Suite, and Sales Simplicity Software is preferred.
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