Strategic Purchasing Manager: Cost Savings & Trade Partners

Toll Brothers; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental

401(k) with match

Stock purchase plan

Home discounts

Mortgage discounts

Appliance discounts

Job summary

Toll Brothers, America's Leading Luxury Home Builder, is seeking a Purchasing Manager for our division office in Houston, Texas. The role contracts trade partners for labor and materials, negotiates pricing, and supports cost-saving initiatives.

The on-site position collaborates with Operations, Community Planning, Architecture and suppliers to optimize SKUs, manage bids, track performance, and ensure value engineering aligns with national and local standards.

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 contracting and negotiating pricing of building materials or related residential construction experience.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, specifically Excel.
• Office-based use 3 days per week; schedule varies by Division/Department.

Responsibilities

• Budgeting/Contracting of trade categories in the Division.
• Bid, negotiate, and approve trade partner contracts with division Operations leaders.
• Manage contract maintenance and scopes of work updates.
• Collaborate with Community Planning, Architecture for value engineering and SKU optimization.
• Ensure national guidance for room/option naming is followed.
• Recommend strategic sourcing to lower total cost of ownership.
• Apply national strategies to local market, unbundling labor and material pricing.
• Oversee model home rebate collection process.
• Conduct industry benchmarking studies.
• Perform financial analysis of contracts and assess trade partner health.
• Analyze total spend by trade category and supplier to identify savings.
• Determine optimum product specs and align with agreements.
• Optimize SKU availability to reduce cost and administrative burden.
• Develop understanding of trade partners’ cost drivers.
• Foster collaboration with trade partners and distributors; measure performance.

Skills

Budgeting

Contracting

Negotiation

Trade Partner Mgmt

Financial analysis

SKU optimization

Value engineering

E1 / BuildPro

Excel

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Construction Management or Supply Chain

Supply Chain certification

Tools

BuildPro

EnterpriseOne (E1)

Job description

Toll Brothers, America's Leading Luxury Home Builder, is seeking a Purchasing Manager for our division office in Houston, Texas. The role contracts trade partners for labor and materials, negotiates pricing, and supports cost-saving initiatives.

The on-site position collaborates with Operations, Community Planning, Architecture and suppliers to optimize SKUs, manage bids, track performance, and ensure value engineering aligns with national and local standards.