Residential Construction Purchasing Analyst- Estimator

Job DescriptionJob Description

Purpose:

The Purchasing Analyst is responsible for providing support to the department leader on all costs and budgeting related to residential construction homebuilding, within respective markets. Must have residential construction experience.

Key Responsibilities and Accountability:

• Maintain take-offs and unitized pricing
• Create and maintain clear bid documents
• Collect bids, layouts, diagrams, etc. and provide necessary analysis
• Collect, review, analyze, and provide all necessary option pricing from vendors when applicable
• Ensure all pricing is reflective of correct specification, plans, and scopes
• Provide clear, meaningful, and actionable analysis to Purchasing Manager/Director and other internal stakeholders for vendor selection
• Work directly with Purchasing Manager/Director to provide necessary support and analysis for new projects
• Where applicable: create, maintain, issue and monitor purchase orders and variances.
• When requested, help qualify vendors within assigned area that offer a combination of quality products and services that are at an acceptable level.
• Work with team members to manage purchasing components of new community launches (i.e. option catalogs, product information books, etc.)
• Conduct value engineering studies as assigned
• Research new products and processes from a cost and value basis as assigned
• Identify scopes of work discrepancies and work with Director to implement solutions
• Provide supporting data to the Purchasing Manager/Director for modification suggestions to the base Scopes of Work from product of technique changes due to feedback from field or corrective action process.
• Additional duties and support related to purchasing and estimating as assigned

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Construction, Business, or other related field.

Experience:

• Must have residential construction knowledge or background in construction
• A minimum of one to six (1-6) years of relevant previous similar work experience in residential construction industry is required.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Estimating - Understands components and estimating practices for all production home building trade categories. Extensive knowledge of the homebuilding process.
• Pricing- Understands pricing and pricing structures; has ability to break down and analyze pricing for analysis.
• Bidding- Understands bidding processes and has ability to create clear and accurate bid documents.
• Value analysis - Ability to provide clear and meaningful analysis on vendor pricing, specification selection, product selection, etc.
• Relationship Building - Ability to maintain and build strong relationship with trade partners and manufacturers. Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Teamwork- Strength in relationship management with internal stakeholders.
• Details- Prioritization, organization and high attention to detail when analyzing and maintaining bid documents.
• Strategic- Adapts to new processes and procedures if warranted.
• Strong work ethic and self motivated
• Proficiency in data entry and data management
• Time management skills
• Strong communication skills
• Adapts to change, can handle pressure and adjust plans to meet changing needs.
• Honest and trustworthy

Company DescriptionResidential Homebuilder and Land Development company with over 45 years serving the Kansas City metro & Johnson County, KS areas.Company DescriptionResidential Homebuilder and Land Development company with over 45 years serving the Kansas City metro & Johnson County, KS areas.