Purchasing Director

Toll Brothers, Inc.•Novi, MI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Toll Brothers, America's builder of luxury homes, is seeking a Purchasing Director to oversee vendor and subcontractor relations and management of all related contracts in our division located in Novi, Michigan. The Director of Purchasing position is a senior level cost strategist that is an integral part of the division leadership team. They oversee the purchasing function that is accountable for all aspects of divisional purchasing to include, developing, negotiating, and executing local vendor agreements for all trade categories. This role will work with the Director of Community Design & Start Up on new community set up and support the Cost Manager role in ensuring pricing for Design Studio options/customs. The Purchasing Director will also ensure compliance to national purchasing policies/specifications/scopes throughout the division.

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Construction Management, or Supply Chain Management (or extensive experience in the residential homebuilding industry)
7-10 years of experience in contracting and negotiating residential homebuilder subcontractor contracts/building materials/supply chain management
Experience managing a team
Solid knowledge of residential building plans and materials from foundation to finish

Nice To Haves

Experience with J.D. Edwards ERP software is a plus

Responsibilities

Oversee purchasing staff with trade partner negotiation and contracts
Manage relationships with local trade partners, manufacturers and distributors; either directly or through the management of their purchasing team
Manage new community contracting to strive for complete contracting before a community opens for sale
Oversee contract maintenance component of contracting to reduce dependence on EPOs
Measure trade partner performance, track, and counsel
Analytics/Process Improvement/Supply Chain Optimization
Drive a culture of cost awareness and cost savings strategies through SKU rationalization, new business processes, streamlining processes and aggressive bidding of contracts
Analyze total spend by: trade category, supplier, community, option sales, etc. to identify opportunities to leverage spending for greater savings
Partner with National Purchasing to leverage company spend/size to drive divisional savings
Drive cost savings strategies by working with other stacks on architectural reviews and value engineering of new plan designs and product specifications
Work with Land/Forward Planning to prepare preliminary cost estimates for new land deals
Recommend strategic sourcing strategies to lower/mitigate costs/increases
Fulfill unit price "unbundling" strategy in key trade categories to gain greater visibility into material and labor costs
Work with in-house or third-party estimating resources to provide take offs for this "unbundling" strategy
Review and monitor EPOs/Custom Option costs in the division
Ensure vigilant contract maintenance to cut down on EPO spend
Work closely with division Controller and APMs to control cost overruns with requests for extras from the field
Work with cost managers/design studio on custom option requests from the studios
Manage the custom option request process of the purchasing team by costing the custom option request ahead of time and inputting into BuildPro