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Date Prepared: 3/6/2025
FLSA Status: Exempt Regular/Fulltime
Position: Purchasing Manager
Salary Range: $90,000-$120,000 + Bonus (target max. compensation of $150,000)
Department: Purchasing
Reports To: VP of Construction and Purchasing

Purpose/ Overview

If you are seeking a purchasing leadership role where your decisions have a direct impact on customers, a sales team, and the bottom line for a local homebuilder with a 65-year legacy, please read on. At Conner Homes, you won't be an anonymous cog in a machine. Instead, you will have visible decision-making accountabilities.

As the Conner Homes Purchasing Manager, you oversee the Purchasing Department. You will be responsible for the daily operations, managing the purchasing team, and reporting financial details to the organization. You will confirm the best contractors are selected based on competitive bids and other criteria, assuring the Direct Vertical Construction Costs meet the Proforma Budget Criteria. You are responsible for all contracting details and supplier/vendor management, as it pertains to providing a continuous supply of goods and services to the field safely, for on time closings with compelling value.

Duties

• Oversee the contract agreement process remains consistent with Conner Homes sourcing guidelines and project deadlines.
• Manage supplier performance based on Safety, Pricing, Schedules, and Quality.
• Manage supplier relationships and perform appropriate action as necessary to maintain optimum performance in the field.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Sales, and Marketing to make sure all required project information is reviewed, confirmed and approved prior to starting the bidding and negotiation process.
• Manage and continuously develop effective purchasing methods and systems to streamline the bidding, negotiating and contract processes.
• Manage cut-off dates by community to ensure all options are confirmed, created and priced in the option software (Envision).
• Champion the responsibility of finding and vetting new products to keep the Conner Product current and above the competition.
• Anticipate cost increases, supply chain risks, material shortages and decrease the potential loss of trade partners to maintain the building process.
• Evaluation of monthly Committed Cost reports against budgets and contracts.
• Negotiate Model Home discounts with vendors and track all Model Discounts by category.
• Oversee the options process for pricing, contracting and importing the options into Envision.
• Managing bids and contracts to the required new community’s timeline.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Construction Management, or related field; or 5+ years of directly related “Purchasing” experience and/or training.
• Purchasing (not procurement) experience for a construction or manufacturing company required.
• MS Office experience. Specifically proficient in Excel.
• Timberline (SAGE 100) accounting software and BDX Envision Option software preferred.
• Accomplished Communication and Negotiating skills.
• Ability to be flexible, proactive, highly organized, strong orientation to details and a high level of follow-through.
• Proven ability to work with multiple projects and manage competing priorities.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Occasional standing, walking (including stairs and uneven ground) and sitting; occasional lifting of less than 50/lbs.
• May require occasional driving from one job site to another.
• Environmental conditions vary depending on weather, stage of production, and where work takes place. Some of the following conditions apply at various times, hot, cold, wet, dry, muddy, humid, windy, calm, bright, dark, noisy, dusty, poor lighting, poor ventilation, temperature variations, fog and rain. Airborne particles such as wood dust, drywall dust, etc. are common in the field environment.