Job Details
Procurement Manager
Schaumburg, IL
Come join a national top 3 homebuilder in a high-growth role! If you are a Procurement Manager, Purchasing Manager, Estimating Manager or Construction Manager this may be a great next step for you!
Highlights:
- 2024 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® by Great Place to Work® and Fortune, top 50!
- 4.5 weeks of PTO, hybrid work schedule and division performance bonus paying out at 200% of target.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for entering into negotiations with suppliers by reviewing terms and conditions, establishing pricing, contract formulation, and any supplier management conditions affecting the division.
What you will do:
- Provide accurate and timely local and/or Zone supplier negotiations and contracting based on defined category selection criteria (i.e., cost, quality, productivity, service).
- Manage supplier performance monitoring within the zone and /or division (i.e., cost, quality, productivity, service).
- National: manage compliance to agreements, scopes, etc.
- Local: manage and execute contract agreements consistent with sourcing guidelines.
- Collaborate with Zone Product, DCOs, CMs, FMs, PIMs, RPMs and Sales.
- Manage supplier relationships and assist in resolving issues and conflicts related to daily Trade Partner activities.
- Maintain all applicable databases (Purchase Pro, DMTs, etc.) used in developing the cost and quantity estimates.
- Verify estimates of costs and quantities of residential products using comparative and differential estimating techniques.
- Responsible for Trade Partner Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measurement and validation.
- Performs analysis of Trade Partner data submissions and manages impact of commodity fluctuations.
- Communicate completed estimates to the construction personnel, trade subcontractors and vendors (Purchase Pro).
- Develop material and labor optimization solutions using Value Engineering tools and methodology.
- Control top trade category costs by utilizing zone tools & methods.
- Responsible for Project Tracker categories and rebate capture.
- Develop and implement division specific tools and methodologies for estimating and controlling trade category costs as required.
- Assist zone estimating in methodology development and optimization.
- Manage option programming /customer option estimates.
- Follow business processes for supplier management.
- Subject matter expert for the Strategic Sourcing Director.
- Hiring agent for zone trades for assigned categories.
- Develop procurement strategy and plans to meet changing economic and competitive conditions.
- Develop scopes and standard operating procedures that assure Trade Partner compliance with construction standards, local, state and national building codes, and safety regulations.
What you will need:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
- Experience as an analyst.
- Ability to develop and improve vendor partnerships.
- Construction knowledge preferred.
- Ability to work in continuous improvement environment.