Purchasing Solutions Director

Overview

Join an award-winning luxury home builder!

Who are we?

Since 1967, Toll Brothers has been building luxury homes and communities in the best locations in the U.S. Today, we're a Fortune 500 company operating in over 50 markets across more than 20 states. We're the country's premier luxury builder with the widest range of products in the industry, including traditional single-family homes, active adult, hi-rise condos, apartment rentals, urban redevelopment, and student housing.

From the homes we build to the talent we recruit, we know that to be the best, we have to work with the best. Toll Brothers is a place where diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and where employees of all backgrounds are treated with fairness, dignity and respect. We believe every employee should feel safe to be their true and authentic self at work. Our employees are our family, and we strive to uphold the values that our founders instilled in us, creating an exceptional place to work that is inclusive to all.

Toll Brothers, America's Leading Luxury Home Builder, is seeking a Purchasing Solutions Director to join our team.

What is the opportunity?

The Director, Purchasing Solutions is responsible for understanding, devising, designing, and implementing Purchasing setup strategies in EnterpriseOne (E1). The role requires strong technical skills coupled with business process and systems experience. They will gather and compile stakeholder and user requirements to design collaborative solutions within the organization's systems. This role understands and applies national guidance to facilitate consistent, enterprise-wide setup to aid with efficiency and troubleshooting and identifies opportunities for setup to be streamlined and improved. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of EnterpriseOne system investments.

What are the primary responsibilities?

Purchasing Setup & Deployment

• Collaborate with national functional areas (e.g. Sales, Design, and Production) to define 'go to market' selling strategies, design system setup solutions to facilitate selling strategies for evaluation, and direct enterprise-wide implementation of the selected solution(s)

• Focus on consistent, enterprise-wide setup, to facilitate maintenance and troubleshooting

• Assist National Purchasing with system readiness for Phase 2 itemization

• Validate National Option Master to include all E1 Phase 2 options available in any Toll Division, including go forward Class Code strategy and alignment of Option Specifications

• Validate Division Option Master to include records specific to the Division offering, ensuring consistent use of options and class codes throughout Community Option Masters

• Lead the Purchasing effort to transition Toll legacy Divisions and future acquisitions to Phase 2 itemized E1 setup

• Develop a deep understanding of national setup for each trade and collaborate with Division teams to facilitate setup, while adhering to national guidance

• Validate Option Master setup in accordance with existing architectural plans, changes necessary to cost codes and trade codes, creation of itemized program assortment, and more

• Partner with the Division teams on data validation to confirm new setup ties out to legacy data

• Achieve implementation deadlines

Strategy & Planning

• Manage, evaluate and prioritize stakeholder and end user requests and requirements for Purchasing changes and enhancements within E1

• Review the effectiveness and efficiency of existing setup and develop strategies for enhancing and simplifying

• Collaborate in the planning, design, development, and deployment of enhancements to existing applications

• Perform testing for enhancements or issue resolution prior to implementation in production environment

• Troubleshoot, test, and resolve issues with integrated platform(s)

• Support implementation and integration of new processes and/or software solution(s) related to Purchasing into the business unit(s); including developing overall project schedules and work assignments for Division integration responsibilities

• Maintain a sufficient level of expertise with the organization's integrated platform(s) and open communication with systems owners to ensure collaboration between the tools

On-going support

• Engage with end users to implement national purchasing strategies

• Assist with setup and transition to new option and item numbers

• Review and revise Division setup (e.g. rules, valid values) as option and item numbers change or product optimization occurs to ensure a timely transition

• Suggest alternate setup solutions based on specific, approved use cases

• Document Purchasing setup processes and trade strategies to facilitate future setup and troubleshooting

• Assist with training development, in accordance with business processes and operational procedures; identify and develop continuing education opportunities for end users to expand system knowledge

• Assist end users on EnterpriseOne related functionality questions

Operational Management

• Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members

• Provide subject matter expertise in Purchasing setup system requirements in direct support of maximizing transactional capabilities

• Represent Purchasing on cross functional initiatives, collaborating on policy, process, documentation, and training that supports company business best practices

This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the nation's most respected Fortune 500 companies!

Qualifications

Does this describe you?

• Capable of forward thinking and the use of independent judgement to the benefit of the organization

• Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills

• Excellent listening, interpersonal, facilitative, written, and oral communication skills

• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail

• Highly self-motivated and directed

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure

• Strong customer service orientation

• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Experience working in large projects with internal and external partners

Do you have these qualifications?

• Essential:

• 10+ years' experience in Residential Purchasing or IT related business

• 5+ years' experience in lead-to-manager role

• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modelling/mapping, methodology development, and data modelling

• Ability to create systematic and manual operations procedures in user-friendly language

• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills

• Demonstrated training skills

• Strong Microsoft Office Skills, with an emphasis on Excel

• Preferred:

• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products

• An advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MIS, etc.)

• IT related certifications (e.g., Six Sigma, PMP, etc.)

• College diploma or university degree

We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package that includes comprehensive medical/dental, 401(k) with a company match, discounted stock purchase, discounts on mortgages, homes, and much more!

Come see why Toll Brothers has been attracting and retaining some of the best professionals in the industry!

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