National Purchasing Specialist - Scottsdale, United States - Shea Homes

Shea Homes
Shea Homes
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Scottsdale, United States

3 weeks ago

Mark Lane

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Description

Employment Status:

Full Time

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National Purchasing


The National Purchasing Specialist (NPS) is responsible for the procurement of assigned vertical and horizontal costs for work constructed as it relates to the specific trades in the category they're assigned to manage.

The NPS will serve on a national category management team where they will work with their peers to manage costs at a national level.

This includes identifying new trades, performing due diligence and working with Division OPS leaders to qualify, approve and onboard new Trades.

The National Purchasing Specialist is responsible for competitive bidding, analyzing, negotiating, and awarding contracts to Trades who are approved by both Purchasing and Division OPS leaders.

In addition to procurement duties, the NPS is responsible for assembling and maintaining budgets, preparing documents for inclusion into trade contract agreements, and other duties related to the purchasing process.

Purchasing Offices provide important services to the divisions; it is the National Purchasing Specialist's responsibility to respond timely to division needs and perform in keeping with established service standards and metrics.


Summary of Position Requirements:


Purchasing Strategy

  • Maintain a bidding workload schedule for all communities. Determine a competitive bid schedule for new communities. Determine when it is appropriate to bid out or reprice contracts for inprogress communities.
  • Collaborate with Division OPS leaders to Identify those trades critical to achieving operational objectives and engage in discussions (when the market conditions warrant) to secure necessary trade capacity (Strategic Trade Relationships
  • STR) in order to achieve start and closing goals.
  • Inform Division Business Leaders of the prevailing purchasing strategy and gain their concurrence.

Specifying

  • For each new community, collaborate with Division associates on the development of feature specifications commensurate with the competitive market requirements
  • Prepare and confirm with National Purchasing Director all specifications, amenities and options for a community or series of homes
  • Whenever possible, participate in value engineering, preliminary architectural reviews, feature & specification meetings, and model walks
  • Develop Product Specifications for the project
  • Always pursue the objective of simplicity (good = base house, better = option level #1, best = option level #2) when specifying features, materials, etc.
  • After the contract is awarded, assemble and distribute the product specifications to the Division

Budgeting

  • Assist in the preparation of the proforma direct construction cost estimate.
  • Assemble information necessary to complete the indirect cost estimate.
  • Prepare the Prebid line item budget estimate at a cost code level.
  • Provide cost and trade information to Purchasing Administrator to maintain accurate budgets in E1 and report budget adjustments to the division or business unit.
  • Review budgets and maintain a Revised Budget estimate (based on actual costs to date) compared to the Original Budget (at time of contract award) with the National Purchasing Director and Division Business Leaders.
  • Update monthly the Direct Construction Cost (DCC) report and provide a 30/60/90 cost outlook.

Bidding

  • Maintain bid list with multiple qualified bidders per trade. Review qualified vendor list with OPS Leaders served by purchasing. For a specific community or series of homes, using the qualified bidders list, assemble a bidders list. OPS Leader to approve community/series bid list.
  • Establish and hold trades accountable for meeting bid due dates.
  • Prepare and distribute all onsite bid sheets and packages, including latest architectural plans, consultant reports, cover letter with bid due date, standard trade requirements, list of options, specific trade requirements, material specifications and sequence sheet.
  • Obtain unitized pricing to include material quantities, SKU pricing, labor rates and standard labor hours to complete the scope of work.
  • Obtain written bids for all quotations including production, option and alternate pricing, bid concessions, model home discounts, and sales complex upgrades.
  • Obtain, analyze and negotiate option costs before awarding base house contracts.

Analyze, Qualify, Negotiate

  • Spread and compare bids for the cost of base house and optional offerings using historical or projected product mix and option frequencies to determine weighted average costs associated with each bid.
  • Identify and resolve bid discrepancies with each bidder.
  • Review and consider proposed substitutions.
  • Obtain Division approval for all substitutions, revise and update scopes and feature specifications to incorporate approved substitutions.
  • Review all substitutions or scope of work changes with each bidder.
  • Identify lowest qualified bidder and compare to line item budget estima
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