Position at Century Communities What Youll Do: The Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing the originating and negotiating the procurement activities of trade goods and services. Your Key Responsibilities Include:
- Provide new community feasibility costs and bidding and contract new projects with annual re-bidding to ensure the best price.
- Material take-offs, including verification of custom price requests and current and new home, plan value engineering.
- Bid, negotiate, and award contracts for residential purchasing.
- Create and set up new communities to bid in the vendor database.
- Maximize hard cost reductions while maintaining positive business relationships.
- Deliver qualified trade partner resources that are consistently below market cost.
- Identify and implement new methods and materials to lower costs without sacrificing quality or perceived customer value.
- Maintain and manage all documents in the vendor database to include plans, sublists, community information, documentation, etc.
- Coordinate plan changes with architecture on new and active communities.
- Analyze plans for value engineering savings and research cost of proposed design ideas.
- Supervise the Take-off process for new and existing homes.
- Prepare special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Maintain continuity among corporate, division, and local work teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
- Manage and mentor direct reports.
- Perform other duties as needed or assigned.
What You Have:
- Experience in residential construction, including purchasing and contracts, is preferred.
- Proven negotiating skills.
- The ability to analyze problems, recommend solutions, and maintain effective working relationships with customers, vendors, and other employees within the organization.
- A Bachelor's Degree is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
- 3+ years of purchasing and estimating experience.
- OSHA 10/30 Construction qualification is preferred.
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Job ID: 487560146
Originally Posted on: 7/31/2025