Purchasing Agent - Tri-Cities, Kennewick, WA, US
4 hours ago
Job description
Summary/objective
The Purchasing Manager is responsible for the overseeing the regional procurement of labor and commodities through the development and implementation of commodity strategies, plans and the management of supplier/trade partner relationships. Other areas of responsibility include price negotiation, planning, production, inventory control and product quality.
Essential functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Support the Director of Purchasing in all aspects of the region's purchasing strategies
- Regularly meet with trade partners to discuss bids and pricing
- Regional bid analysis, negotiations, and vendor awards
- Create and execute contracts for current and new trade partners; update as necessary
- Oversee and take ownership of vendor/trade partner relationships
- Understand company build specification and applicable community standards
- Work with Corporate Purchasing Team to create, maintain & enforce Scope of Expectations
- Create and manage excel spreadsheets, file estimates, trade contracts
- Work with Production Systems team to ensure accurate pricing on pricing requests & change orders as necessary
- Walk PHI & competitors' communities to understand our place in the market and know current trends
- Strategize for improvement of processes & products
- Help maintain communication with Production & Sales as new products rollout
- BuilderMT onboarding for new Trade Partners & regional PHI employees
- Maintain Trade Partner pipeline for anticipated growth
- Ongoing cost saving initiatives
Qualifications
- Purchasing experience preferred
- 2+ years construction industry experience required
- Must possess technical construction knowledge to understand the home building process and terminology
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field preferred
- Strong ability to comprehend the building and construction process and phases
- High level understanding of construction plans and layouts
- Microsoft Office Skills required
- Must be very organized, show initiative, work well with other team members, be able to multi task and work independently, adaptable to a fast paced environment with repetitive tasks, a strong understanding of purchasing and performance
Supervisory responsibilities
This position will be responsible for the oversight of the Regional Purchasing Department.
Work environment
This job operates in varying environments including desk work and field (outdoor) work. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Both indoor and outdoor work will be required of this role.
Physical demands
This role requires sitting, walking, and climbing and lifting. This would require the ability to lift items such as tools, lumber, hardware, and other items used in the home building process. This position requires the ability frequently lift office products and supplies, and items on a work site, up to 20 pounds.
Travel required
Frequent travel is expected for this position.
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