Purchasing Manager - Residential Construction

Unclassified - Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time - Mid Level

Salt Lake City, UT

About the position

David Weekley Homes is seeking an experienced, professional Division Purchasing Manager to lead the Salt Lake City Division's Purchasing team and Design Center to ensure cost-effective resources are available to build homes on schedule. The Salt Lake City Purchasing Manager will work closely with the Regional and National Purchasing teams to accomplish these goals. The successful candidate must possess extensive knowledge of the residential home building industry, a strong work ethic, great communication skills, ability to manage multiple priorities and be a respected team leader.

Responsibilities

• Create accurate hard cost budgets.
• Coordinate with regional and national teams to adjust estimates and budgets as needed.
• Lead price negotiations for divisionally-defined partners.
• Assist the national and regional purchasing teams in negotiations on products and services impacting David Weekley Homes purchasing agreements.
• Lead capacity planning for divisional-preferred partners; assist in capacity planning for national and regional preferred partners.
• Recruit, hire, train, develop, and manage team members for the divisional Purchasing and Design Center team.
• Recruit, onboard, build and maintain relationships with division-specific trade partners.
• Exit underperforming trade partners.
• Train trade partners on Weekley Partner Hub (internal software) and Scopes of Work.
• Direct the Design Center.
• Keep the Regional Director of Purchasing and Division President informed of critical market conditions, capacity and forecast.
• Support National Purchasing job start processes.
• Direct bidding process and analysis for items not estimated nationally or regionally.
• Direct field visits as needed to support local building efforts.
• Support the Design Services team with value engineering initiatives.
• Support National Accounts with rebate collection data.
• Support the Division with the community rollout process.
• Community-level feature selection using nationally and regionally created feature offerings.
• Extra order and back charge purchasing order management.
• Oversee new plan redlines, first-time build walks.
• Conduct cost-reduction exercises.

Requirements

• Experience working in purchasing or supply chain management.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Construction Management, Civil Engineering or related degree.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build quality relationships with internal departments and external Preferred Partners, manufacturers, and material suppliers.
• Proven conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Solid estimating capabilities.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and tasks effectively with disciplined, self-directed work habits.
• Readily adaptable to change.
• Knowledgeable in all functional areas of a homebuilder.

Benefits

• Health Insurance - Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k and discretionary 8% match
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Profit Sharing
• Vacation, Holidays & PTO
• New Home Discount for Team Member & Family
• College Scholarship Program
• Community Outreach
• And More!