Purchasing Coordinator

M/I Homes has been building new homes of outstanding quality and superior design for more than 40 years. Founded in 1976 by Irving and Melvin Schottenstein and guided by Irving's drive to always "treat the customer right," we have fulfilled the dreams of over 140,000 homeowners and grown to become one of the nation's leading homebuilders. M/I Homes started as a family business and grew into a national leader in a single generation with divisions in 17 markets, including Austin, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Ft. Myers/Naples, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Nashville, Orlando, Raleigh, San Antonio, Sarasota, and Tampa.

Job Summary:

Coordinates division purchasing and pricing information management processes including but not limited to costing, ensuring system data integrity, mediating field/trade communications, and assisting in the development of housing budgets. Division purchasing function administrator.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides general administrative support for purchasing department including routine processing of correspondence from rough or revised draft, data entry, preparation and/or maintenance of miscellaneous reports and vendor files. May compile and verify information for reports.

• Processes subcontractor bids, reviews, and analyzes monthly cost changes to provide and maintain accurate sales pricing and housing budgets.

• Responsible for updating and maintaining vendor pricing and record keeping.

• Enters and maintains takeoffs from blueprints and bids.

• Assists with questions related to the Purchasing Department and mediating any day-to-day issues between our Trade Partners, Construction Supervisors, and Sales Team.

• Responsible for projecting time frames of vendor transitions or changes to the Division.

• Responsible for building & ensuring that the Division's data structure (costing) is constructed in an efficient way.

• Work with Purchasing manager to determine the criteria and format for vendor bids to be entered into JDE data base.

• Review and update option sales prices regularly to maintain required margins.

• Helps to compile cost comparisons between vendors to assist in pricing negotiations.

• Performs additional assignments as requested by purchasing manager.