Job Details

As a Purchasing Manager, what we refer to as a Supply Chain Manager here at True Homes, you'll play a key role in driving cost efficiency, supplier performance, and trade partner relationships for our residential construction operations. You'll manage all purchasing functions for your assigned market — ensuring that materials, trades, and pricing align with company standards, production schedules, and profitability goals. This role is ideal for someone who's analytical, relationship-driven, and passionate about creating scalable, efficient purchasing systems in a growing homebuilding company.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• Establishes team congruency with The True Difference Culture (see below)
• Demonstrates leadership consistent with the True North Leadership Platform
  • True Approach: Interactions with Associates, Trades, and Strategic Relationships that consistently reflect the values of the company
  • True Actions: Daily focus reflects franchise philosophy and synergistic structure including stewardship of resources, congruent leadership, operational excellence, and results-focused execution
  • True Acumen: Creates enterprise value through client focus, people development, stakeholder relationships, operational discipline, and financial performance
• Demonstrates high levels of collaboration and synergy with other leaders

Trade Partner Capacity

• Core
  • Monitors Transition Report and ensures capacity from active Trade Partners and Suppliers will accomplish current market Volume In a Range (VIR)
  • Monitors performance and responds to performance challenges related to schedule adherence through the onboard of additional capacity as jointly deemed necessary between Supply Chain and Plant
• Identifies and cultivates bench Trade Partners that have been fully vetted and are able to move into production in a timely manner; all cost codes should have a minimum of one bench Trade Partner with key cost codes having a minimum of 2-3 depending on the market
• Single Family for Rent (SFR)
  • Ensures SFR product is grouped or bid on a project level to identify new capacity and potential Trade Partners outside of normal “market”
  • Identifies new products, processes, specifications, and materials that can be vetted and utilized first in SFR to ensure viable for production
  • Leverages SFR bidding process to identify cost savings opportunities that have potential to expand beyond SFR into Core

Trade Partner Commitment

• Priority Status
  • Ensures Value Creation environment is actively leveraged to gain priority status with Trade Partners having a commitment to maintain priority and capacity to meet production assignments
  • Ensures Manufacturer and Supplier agreements are structured to foundational secure priority and capacity to meet production demands; active forecasting, forward-looking ordering, and meeting/exceeding lead time requirements are in place for all key materials
• True Crews
  • Gains commitments to maintain consistent crew leaders assigned to True Homes work associated with core volume commitment
  • Partners with Plant Labor and Material Specialists to ensure commitments are realized for True Crews
• Hard Cost
  • Leverages Value Creation environment, relationship equity, volume, and mutual gain/tactical negotiations, achieve market leading hard cost
  • Partners with the Plant team, identifies and implements True Lean initiatives to eliminate waste and inefficiency that tangibly reduces hard cost
  • Identifies and eliminates waste and inefficiency in operations that result in shared savings that tangibly reduce hard cost of Trade Partners' businesses, through deep partnership and understanding of their businesses to ensure
• Controls variances related to Supply Chain to below budgeted annual amount

Trade Partner Competency

• Trade Partner Performance
  • Addresses elevated non-conformance as reported by the Plant to ensure sustained improvement and move back into conformance within an acceptable level of time; if non-conformance cannot be improved/sustained, then onboards additional or replacement Trade Partner(s) to address
• TED/CRC
  • Conducts quarterly/monthly business performance reviews with assigned Trade Partners with a specific focus on first-time quality and all other aspects of the partnership
  • Provides support to the Plant as needed for data and insights to appropriately lead Trade Partner performance in the field

Contract Control

• Ensures contracts for all active Trade Partner relationships including detailed Pricing Addendums and Quality Standards are current
• Documents all Trade Partner expectations in Trade Agreements through Quality Standards, Trade Contractor Guidelines, Commitments of Conduct, or architecture drawings/details

Results/Accountability

• Minimizes delays and disruptions caused by Trade Partners
• Achieves 90% Work in Progress (WIP) On-Time and 90% Completions On-Time
• Achieves market leading hard cost
• Ensures Supply Chain variances are less than .2%
• Ensures no variance costs due to product failures
• Ensures Trade Partners achieve first time quality as measured by non-billable/billable follow-ups, fines, quality check results, and warranty performance

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Bachelor's degree Construction Management, Business, Engineering, or relevant field preferred
• Three or more years of relevant work experience required
• Two or more years of residential construction industry experience preferred
• Background in technical sales, business, or manufacturing management preferred
• Strong problem solving, persuasion, and negotiation skills required
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Valid driver's license, current automobile insurance, and reliable personal transportation required for frequent regional travel and occasional travel to Expansion Markets in NC and SC