Toll Brothers - Charlotte, NC
posted about 1 month ago
Toll Brothers, America's Leading Luxury Home Builder, is seeking a Senior Purchasing Manager for our office in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing the contracting of trade partners for labor and material items related to homebuilding operations. 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. The Purchasing Manager will be involved in budgeting and contracting of trade categories in the Division, collaborating with Community Planning to develop community specifications and trade budgets for new land deals and new community openings. The individual will bid, negotiate, and approve trade partner contracts in partnership with division Operations leaders, manage contract maintenance and scopes of work updates for their trade assignments, and partner with Community Planning, Architecture, and other functions to ensure new plan development is looked at through the lens of value engineering and SKU optimization. Additionally, the Purchasing Manager will recommend strategic sourcing strategies to lower total cost of ownership and apply national strategies to local markets, unbundling labor and material pricing where applicable. The role also involves overseeing the model home rebate collection process, conducting industry benchmarking studies, performing financial analysis of the impact of new and existing contracts, and determining the financial health of trade partners. The Purchasing Manager will analyze total spend by trade category, supplier, community, etc., to identify opportunities to leverage spending for greater savings, optimize overall SKU availability to reduce costs, and develop an understanding of trade partners' cost drivers. Furthermore, the individual will facilitate a collaborative environment with trade partners, measure trade partner performance, and act as an intermediary with trade partners and Operations personnel to maintain quality standards of production and cost effectiveness.