Toll Brothers - Mount Pleasant, SC
posted 3 months ago
Toll Brothers, America's Leading Luxury Home Builder, is seeking an Assistant Purchasing Manager for our division office in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Assistant Purchasing Manager plays a crucial role in contracting trade partners for labor and material items for each cost code they manage. This position involves working closely with local trade partners, national and regional suppliers, and distributors to identify opportunities for negotiating cost savings within their trade categories. The individual will collaborate with Operations to ensure that the appropriate trade partners are bid, negotiated, and awarded contracts, while also serving as a resource for the National Purchasing team to support company-wide cost savings initiatives. In this role, the Assistant Purchasing Manager will be responsible for budgeting and contracting trade categories within the division. This includes collaborating with Community Planning to develop community specifications and trade budgets for new land deals and community openings. The individual will bid, negotiate, and approve trade partner contracts in partnership with division Operations leaders, manage contract maintenance, and update scopes of work for their trade assignments. Additionally, the Assistant Purchasing Manager will partner with various departments, including Community Planning and Architecture, to ensure that new plan developments are approached with value engineering and SKU optimization in mind. The role also encompasses analytics and process improvement, where the Assistant Purchasing Manager will perform financial analyses of new and existing contracts, assess the financial health of trade partners, and analyze total spending by trade category to identify opportunities for greater savings. The individual will be responsible for product optimization, SKU demand planning, and ensuring alignment with national and regional agreements regarding product specifications. Furthermore, the Assistant Purchasing Manager will manage trade partner relationships by facilitating a collaborative environment, measuring trade partner performance, and acting as an intermediary to maintain quality standards and cost-effectiveness. The position requires E1 data entry and analysis, estimating and take-off unit quantities for specific trade categories, and conducting monthly budget analyses and price change reporting.