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  Orlando, FL

Division Purchasing Manager

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Job Description

David Weekley Homes is hiring a Divisional Purchasing Manager (DPM) to lead the Orlando Division's Purchasing team to ensure cost-effective resources are available to build homes on schedule. The Orlando Division Purchasing Manager will work closely with the Regional and National Purchasing teams to accomplish these goals.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create accurate hard cost budgets

• Coordinate with regional and national teams to adjust estimates and budgets as needed

• Lead price negotiations for divisionally-defined partners

• Assist the national and regional purchasing teams in negotiations on products and services impacting David Weekley Homes purchasing agreements

• Lead capacity planning for divisional preferred partners; assist in capacity planning for national and regional preferred partners

• Recruit, hire, train, develop, and manage team members for the divisional Purchasing team

• Recruit, onboard, build and maintain relationships with division-specific trade partners

• Exit underperforming trade partners

• Train trade partners on Weekley Partner Hub (internal software) and Scopes of Work

• Keep the Regional Director of Purchasing and Division President informed of critical market conditions, capacity, and forecast

  Secondary Responsibilities:

• Support National Purchasing job start processes

• Direct bidding process and analysis for items not estimated nationally or regionally

• Direct field visits as needed to support local building efforts

• Support the Design Services team with value engineering initiatives

• Support National Accounts with rebate collection data

• Support the Division with the community rollout process

• Community-level feature selection using nationally and regionally created feature offerings

• Extra order and back charge purchasing order management

• Oversee new plan redlines, first-time build walks

• Conduct cost-reduction exercises

  Qualifications:

• Five or more years working in purchasing or supply chain management

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Construction Management, Civil Engineering or related degree

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build quality relationships with internal departments and external Preferred Partners, manufacturers, and material suppliers.

• Proven conflict resolution and negotiation skills

• Solid estimating capabilities

• Strong working knowledge of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and tasks effectively with disciplined, self-directed work habits

• Readily adaptable to change

• Works well with math figures

• Knowledgeable in all functional areas of a home builder

  What We Offer:

Come and join our winning team recognized by Fortune Magazine as “One of the Top 100 Companies to Work For” 18 times. David Weekley Homes builds in 19 markets from coast to coast and is the largest privately-held builder in America. We offer an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Health Insurance - Medical, Dental and Vision

• 401k and discretionary 8% match

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan

• Profit Sharing

• Vacation, Holidays & PTO

• New Home Discount for Team Member & Family

• College Scholarship Program

• Community Outreach

• And More!