Purpose: The Purchasing Analyst is responsible for providing support on all costing and budgeting related to residential construction homebuilding within respective markets. Must have residential construction experience and currently working for a residential home builder in the purchasing department.

 

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities: Maintain take-offs and unitized pricing  Create and maintain clear bid documents  Collect bids, layouts, diagrams, etc. and provide necessary analysis  Collect, review, analyze, and provide all necessary option pricing from vendors to Option Specialist  Review provided bid analysis and work with other internal stakeholders to award contracts Ensure all pricing is reflective of correct specifications, plans, and scopes by spending time in the field  Provide clear, meaningful, and actionable analysis to Purchasing Manager/Director and other internal stakeholders for vendor selection  Work directly with Purchasing Manager/Director to provide necessary support and analysis for both new buy outs and community maintenance. Maintain data integrity.  Where applicable: Create, Maintain, Issue and Monitor Purchase Orders and variances  Monitor product specifications on all homes built within assigned locations Seek vendors in assigned area that offer a combination of quality, products and services that are at an acceptable level Work with trade partners to transition to a more unitized procurement structure Assist in the development of dynamic and protective pricing structures (i.e. lumber indexes) Work with team members to manage purchasing components of new community and/or new product launches (i.e. option catalogs, product information books, etc.) Manage trade partner onboarding including all contract documents and schedule of values Conduct value engineering studies Research new products and processes from a cost and value basis Mitigate and resolve any contract and/or scopes of work discrepancies if needed with the subcontractors on site in assigned area Provide preliminary data for modification suggestions to the base Scopes of Work from product or technique changes due to feedback from field or corrective action process

 

 

 

Technical competencies:

 

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Construction, Business, or other related field.

Experience:  A minimum of three to five (3-5) years of relevant previous similar work experience in the residential construction industry is required.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

Estimating – Understands components and estimating practices for all production home building trade categories. Extensive knowledge of the homebuilding process. Ability to read and understand blueprints proficiently. Computer skills - (Must be highly skilled with Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Pricing – Understands pricing and pricing structures; has ability to break down and analyze pricing for analysis Bidding – understands bidding processes and has ability to create clear and accurate bid documents  Value analysis – Ability to provide clear and meaningful analysis on vendor pricing, specification selection, product selection, etc.  Relationship Building – Ability to maintain and build strong relationship with trade partners and manufacturers. Excellent interpersonal skills. Negotiation – Strong negotiation skills required for dealing with trade partner pricing. Use of discretion, maintain customer confidentiality Teamwork - Strength in relationship management with internal stakeholders Details – Prioritization, organization and high attention to detail when analyzing and maintaining bid documents  Strategic – Ability to think outside of the box and develop new processes and procedures if warranted.  Math skills Strong Work ethic and Motivated.  Proficiency in data entry and management Time management skills Honest and trustworthy

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