Purchasing Manager
Posted on: 18 Jan 2021
Chantilly, VA
Job Description
Job Description
Overview
The Purchasing Manager is responsible for developing, negotiating, and executing division sourcing agreements for specific spend categories.
Responsibilities
* Ensure Lennar has only the best subcontractors to meet its manufacturing needs.
* Ensure Lennars subcontractors are continuously improving in the areas of quality, cost, service and delivery performance.
* Understand the material supply chains of specific spend categories and implement material sourcing strategies to optimize the flow through the chain.
* Maintain a thorough understanding of the industry for the specific major category being sourced.
* Facilitate value engineering sessions with subcontractors and associates from division customers.
* Proactively communicate with all applicable associates within division customers.
* Benchmark industry sourcing and supply management best practices.
* Develop, maintain and use should-cost models for specific spend categories and related construction services.
* Own the responsibility for improving the divisions cost per sq foot for their specified spend categories.
* Negotiate and question pricing and legitimacy of EPOs.
* Review all extra EPOs to verify within accordance of approved take-offs, scopes of work, proper reason codes utilized, and work with Expeditor to resolve issues as they arise.
* Identify areas and trends in extra EPOs to prevent and to reduce costs.
* Rationalize the subcontractor base to the best of the best.
* Ensure continuity of supply and labor to the divisions communities.
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Qualifications
* College degree required
* 5 years minimum experience in construction technology, environmental management/engineering, industrial hygiene, or related field experience.
* 3 years minimum experience in homebuilding industry.
* Must have working knowledge of laws and regulations relating to SWPPPs, storm water run-off and air quality.
* Must have strong writing and organizational skills; Detail oriented.
* High degree of construction knowledge.
* Team player with strong work ethic.
* Valid Drivers License and valid auto insurance coverage required.
* Computer literacy, including word-processing, spreadsheet analysis, project scheduling and data management software.
* Ability to communicate effectively and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
Lennar
Miami, FL
The history of our Company is amazing. Lennar began in 1954, as F&R Builders, co-founded by Gene Fisher and Arnold Rosen. In 1956 Leonard Miller joined F&R by investing $10,000 and replacing Gene as Arnold’s partner. Through Leonard’s guidance and Arnold’s attention to construction, our hallmark traits of Quality, Value and Integrity were born.
In 1970 we became a public Company under the corporate banner of Lennar, a combination of Leonard and Arnold’s names. Through the years, Lennar has grown to a disciplined and spirited team of Associates who have fine-tuned the art of identifying and capturing opportunities to grow and become an even better Company.
The result is a long proven track record of strategically timed and impeccably executed expansions into new markets. As a result, Lennar now builds homes in some of the most desirable cities and states to live in all across America, and has now become one of the most respected homebuilders in the nation. Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is headquartered in Miami, Florida and is one of the nation’s leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and retirement homes in Communities that cater to almost any lifestyle – such as urban, golf course, Active Adult or suburban Communities.
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IndustryHome and Garden
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No. of Employees11,626
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