Purchasing Manager

Toll Brothers; Lake Oswego (OR); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental insurance

401(k) with company match

Mortgage/home discounts

Appliance discounts

Job summary

Toll Brothers in Lake Oswego, Oregon is seeking a Purchasing Manager to oversee contracting trade partners for labor and materials, on-site five days per week.

You will negotiate costs, manage contracts, and coordinate with Operations to optimize value engineering and SKU availability while supporting national cost-savings initiatives. A Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of contracting experience are preferred; comprehensive benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Construction Management or Supply Chain Management preferred but not required.
• Minimum 5 years of contracting/negotiating building materials experience in residential construction.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; Excel aptitude required.

Responsibilities

• Budgeting/Contracting of trade categories for the division.
• Bid, negotiate, and approve trade partner contracts with Purchasing Director.
• Manage contract maintenance and scopes of work updates.
• Coordinate with Operations on value engineering and SKU optimization.
• Conduct industry benchmarking studies and financial analyses of contracts.
• Analyze total spend by trade category and supplier to identify savings opportunities.
• Facilitate trade partner relationships and ensure cost effectiveness.

Skills

Creative problem-solver

Strong interpersonal skills

Forward thinking

Analytical

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Admin

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job ID 25236
Location Toll Brothers - Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034 United States
Category Purchasing - Management
Percentage Travel Required None
Education Required A college degree is preferred but not required
Job Type Full Time

Join an award-winning l uxury home builder!

Who are we?

Since 1967, Toll Brothers has been building luxury homes and communities in the best locations in the U.S. Today, we’re a Fortune 500 company operating in over 60 markets. We’re the country’s premier luxury builder with the widest range of product offerings and price points in the industry, serving first-time, move-up, active-adult, and second-home buyers.

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. We believe every employee should feel safe to be their true and authentic self at work. Our employees are our family, and we strive to uphold the values that our founders instilled in us, creating an exceptional place to work that is inclusive to all.

Toll Brothers , America's Leading Luxury Home Builder, is seeking a Purchasing Manager for our division office in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

What is the opportunity?

This position will be on-site 5 days per week.

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for contracting trade partners for labor and material items. 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. This role will partner with Operations to ensure proper trade partners are bid, negotiated, and awarded. This role will also serve as a resource of the National Purchasing team, supporting company cost savings initiatives.

What are the role’s primary responsibilities?

• Budgeting/Contracting of trade categories in the Division
  
  • Bid, negotiate, and approve trade partner contracts in partnership with Purchasing Director
  • Manage contract maintenance and scopes of work updates
  • Partner with Operations to ensure new plan development is looked at through the lens of value engineering and SKU optimization
  • Partner with Operations 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 reducecost, 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

This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the nation's most respected Fortune 500 companies!

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?

• 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) andBuildProsoftware
  • Experience with Energy Star requirements, Green Building concepts, sustainability, etc.

We offer an excellent benefits package, including comprehensive medical/dental, 401(k) with a company match, discounted stock purchase, discounts on mortgages, homes, appliances, and much more!

Come and see why Toll Brothers has been attracting and retaining some of the best professionals in the industry!

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Toll Brothers is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity. All employment decisions, policies, and practices are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. Toll Brothers will not engage in or tolerate unlawful discrimination (including any form of unlawful harassment) on account of a person's sex (including pregnancy), age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender nonconformity, status as a transgender individual, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, family responsibility, armed services, or any other status protected by law.