Job Description:
Job Title: Purchasing Agent
Summary of Objectives:
- Bidding and negotiating with vendors and subcontractors to enable us to build the highest quality product at the lowest possible price.
- BRIX experience is a plus.
- Residential Home Building is preferred.
Primary Responsibilities
- Continually identify and qualify new trade partners, using competition to negotiate and drive down pricing
- Maintain integrity and order of all bid files and contracts
- Reach out to potential vendors to solicit bids
- Maintain Dropbox folders to include all plans, scopes of work and community specifications
- Solicit all existing and potential contractors for bidding of new plans and communities
- Prepare contract packages for signatures and filing
- Negotiate all bids for best price
- Prepare and analyze cost comparison for each trade partner to ensure we are using the lowest cost qualified vendor
- Review weekly EPOs for your assigned cost codes and conduct business meetings as needed
- Negotiate any price increases and make sure POs are updated as needed
- Resolve invoicing issues for your assigned cost codes
- Work with estimators and budgeting coordinators to provide information needed for option pricing
- Assist with training of suppliers and builders on scopes of work
- Learn how sales pricing is figured and work 2 weekend days per month providing custom sales pricing for Sales associates
Performance StandardsAcquire and maintain a minimum of 5 qualified bids for each cost code
Why work for Grand Homes:
- Voted two-time winner America's Best Builder out of 75,000 builders nationwide
- 2019 Grand Award by Texas Association of Builders
- 2005, 2009, 2010 DFW Builder of the Year
- Consumers' Choice Award 2007 through 2021
- Top 50 companies to work for in the U.S.
- Best Company to Work For in Addison 2015
- 5th Fastest Growing Builder in Texas
- Winner of more Design & Architectural Awards than any other builder in Dallas the last five years