Strategic Purchasing Director — Hybrid (Construction)

EYA, LLC; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plans

Paid time off

Job summary

EYA, LLC in Bethesda, MD, seeks a Director of Purchasing to lead the company’s purchasing function, driving strategy across residential communities and collaborating with Construction, Architecture, Development, and Accounting.

The ideal candidate combines procurement expertise with leadership, drives cost management, value engineering, and supplier relationships, and translates ideas into measurable savings while maintaining quality and customer focus.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to identify and implement process improvements, introduce new approaches, and successfully drive change.
• Experience leveraging technology, data, and analytical tools to improve processes and support business decisions.
• Strong knowledge of construction purchasing, estimating, bidding, contracting, scopes of work, cost management, and subcontractor negotiations.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including the ability to analyze bids, budgets, cost variances, and purchasing performance.
• Proven ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across departments and with subcontractors, suppliers, and other external partners.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead EYA’s purchasing function, establishing strategies and priorities that support the company’s operational and financial objectives.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, strengthen controls, and enable the Purchasing team to operate more strategically.
• Leverage technology, data, and automation to improve purchasing processes, analysis, reporting, bidding, contracting, and decision-making.
• Partner cross-functionally to support new communities, resolve complex purchasing and construction issues, and improve coordination throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and execute strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, and contracting strategies across EYA’s residential communities.
• Champion cost management and value engineering efforts in partnership with Architecture, Construction, Development, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor construction costs, market conditions, trade capacity, and cost variances to identify risks and opportunities and inform business decisions.
• Drive measurable value through cost savings, negotiations, rebates, trade partnerships, and other strategic purchasing initiatives.
• Build and strengthen relationships with subcontractors and suppliers while proactively expanding EYA’s trade partner network.
• Lead contract negotiations to achieve competitive pricing, comprehensive trade coverage, clearly defined scopes of work, and strong business terms.
• Demonstrate the highest standards of integrity and ethics, maintaining transparency, fairness, and objectivity in all vendor relationships, negotiations, and purchasing decisions.
• Lead and develop the Purchasing team, fostering accountability, collaboration, and strong performance.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Vendor management

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, construction management, engineering, finance, or a related field

Job description

EYA, LLC in Bethesda, MD, seeks a Director of Purchasing to lead the company’s purchasing function, driving strategy across residential communities and collaborating with Construction, Architecture, Development, and Accounting.

The ideal candidate combines procurement expertise with leadership, drives cost management, value engineering, and supplier relationships, and translates ideas into measurable savings while maintaining quality and customer focus.