Purchasing Manager

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage purchasing for active custom home projects from initial selections and estimates through final completion.
• Develop and review project specifications to ensure accuracy with construction plans and budgets.
• Build and maintain relationships with subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturers, and vendors.
• Solicit, compare, and negotiate bids, pricing, terms, lead times, and availability.
• Prepare, issue, and manage purchase orders in line with approved budgets and project specifications.
• Monitor material pricing and identify cost saving opportunities and improved purchasing terms.
• Track long lead materials and communicate potential delays or availability issues to the construction team.
• Review selections, specifications, and plans to ensure ordered materials accurately reflect the approved scope of work.
• Maintain accurate pricing, vendor, and product information within purchasing and project management systems.
• Work with accounting to resolve invoice discrepancies, pricing issues, credits, and vendor statements.
• Review subcontractor and vendor invoices for accuracy against approved pricing and purchase orders.
• Assist with standardized pricing, scopes of work, and purchasing procedures.
• Maintain organized documentation of bids, pricing, purchase orders, selections, and vendor agreements.
• Assist with purchasing budgets and cost reports for individual projects.
• Price homeowner requested changes, including obtaining vendor and subcontractor pricing, reviewing costs, preparing change orders, and documenting scope and pricing changes.
• Address purchasing related issues to minimize impact on project schedules and budgets.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Experience purchasing for a residential custom home builder.
• Strong knowledge of residential construction materials, subcontractor scopes, and the custom home building process highly preferred.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, organizational, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Experience with Buildertrend, estimating systems, purchase order systems, and Microsoft Office preferred.