National Purchasing Director

JOB SUMMARY:

Primary responsibility for leading the development and implementation of National sourcing strategies for labor and materials in key categories including, but not limited to designing and implementing supply solutions that deliver labor and materials at the lowest total cost and consistent with approved quality and delivery standards. Supply solutions must be delivered with cost transparency, continuous improvement and alignment across suppliers, trade partners and PulteGroup locations.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage development and implementation of purchasing strategies and National agreements related to assigned category labor and materials expenditures. Annual spend in assigned categories to exceed $500MM. Monitor and adjust such strategies to ensure continuous value improvement to PulteGroup.

• Lead National contract alignment and coordination with all Areas, Zones and Divisions to assure competitive leverage.

• Monitor and communicate performance issues, price and product changes and strategy-impacting variables to the organization.

• Design and develop supply solution strategies to reduce cycle time, eliminate waste, standardize practices and reduce costs through value engineering and lean practices and principles.

• Develop and implement comprehensive standards for should costing, analytical tool application and systems.

• Develop specification and option solutions in assigned categories for all new product plan offerings.

• Lead efficiency/cost saving efforts for new product plan offerings.

• Lead market analysis and negotiations for VEWs and SCWs.

• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Interior Design, Legal, Risk, Finance, Zones and Divisions

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES Level: Mentor / Coach / Feedback

• Delegates work according to employees abilities and skills.

• Provides input to employees performance evaluations.

• Assists in the identification of internal and external training opportunities.

• Provides continuous coaching with regard to functional and leadership standards (technical skills and behaviors).

SCOPE: (Decision making, size of organization, budgetary, etc.)

• Decision Impact: National

• Department Responsibility: Single

• Budgetary Responsibility: No budget responsibility but has authority to negotiate and execute large national vendor/supplier contracts on behalf of PulteGroup, Inc.

• Direct Reports: Yes

• Indirect Reports: Yes highly influential coaching role with DPs, ZVPs Construction, DCOs, and all levels of Purchasing personnel

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