Procurement Agent
Columbus, OH
A Fortune 250 company and one of America's top residential builders is looking for a Procurement Agent for their Columbus team. If you are a Procurement Analyst, Supply Chain Analyst, Land Analyst or Purchasing Agent, Purchasing Analyst, Estimator or Procurement Agent this may be a great next step for you!
Highlights:
- #1 builder in the market with two large active adult communities under development.
- Closing over 800 homes this year and on track to be over 1,000 closings in the short-term.
- Great team culture and internal promotion opportunities!
- Compensation package includes a strong base salary and bonus.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for entering into negotiations with suppliers by reviewing terms and conditions, establishing pricing, contract formulation, and any supplier management conditions affecting the division.
What you will do:
- Provide accurate and timely local supplier negotiations and contracting based on defined category selection criteria (i.e., cost, quality, productivity, service).
- Manage supplier performance monitoring within the division (i.e., cost, quality, productivity, service
- National: manage compliance to agreements, scopes, etc.
- Local: manage and execute contract agreements consistent with sourcing guidelines
- Assist in resolving issues and conflicts related to Trade Partner.
- Maintain all applicable databases (Purchase Pro Contracting System, Data Management Tools (DMTs, etc.) used in developing the cost and quantity estimates.
- Verify estimates of costs and quantities of residential products using comparative and differential estimating techniques.
- Responsible for Trade Partner Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measurement and validation.
- Performs analysis of Trade Partner data submissions and manages impact of commodity fluctuations.
- Communicate completed estimates to the construction personnel, trade subcontractors and vendors.
- Complete necessary customer option estimates.
- Collaborate with Area Product/Architecture, Division VP of Construction (DVP), Area Construction Managers (ACMs) Construction Managers (CMs), Resource Planning/Job Scheduling Managers (RPMs) and Sales.
- Control trade category costs by utilizing Area tools and methodologies.
- Responsible for assigned Project Tracker cost categories and rebate capture forecasting.
- Follow Pulte business processes for supplier management.
- Other duties as assigned.
What you will need:
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- Minimum 1 year related functional experience
- Business acumen including understanding the impact of purchasing costs on income statements, balance sheets, and cost structures
- Purchasing and supply chain experience
- Ability to negotiate in a cost transparent environment
- Ability to develop and improve vendor partnerships
- Construction knowledge
- Ability to work in continuous improvement environment
