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Miranda Girouard

Houston

Summary

Purchasing professional with solid experience in procurement and supply chain management. Known for strong analytical skills, strategic sourcing, cost analysis. Effective team collaborator focused on achieving results and adapting to changing needs. Reliable, detail-driven, and skilled in inventory management, cost reduction, and process improvement.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Purchasing Manager

Highland Homes
06.2023 - Current
  • Monitors and reports cost, pricing, and margin changes through internal reports and analysis of changes in costs from month to month
  • Schedules and delegates weekly production and start goals
  • Creates production reports and cost comparisons to aid in new plan and community budget setups
  • Runs material takeoffs for option codes to ensure all pricing is accounted for; and submits bid requests for missing budgets.
  • Facilitates the purchasing coordinators through the ordering process
  • Works closely with field to resolve budget and takeoff problems on all new plans/options
  • Analyzes profit margin on jobs and adjusts so that each job is within that margin
  • Maintains purchasing training manual
  • The below still applies

Purchasing Coordinator III

Highland Homes
10.2022 - 06.2023
  • Creates production reports and cost comparisons to aid in new plan and community budget setups.
  • Runs material takeoffs for option codes to ensure all pricing is accounted for; and submits bid requests for missing budgets.
  • Analyzes profit margin on jobs and adjusts so that each job is within that margin.
  • The below still applies

Purchasing Coordinator II

Highland Homes
11.2020 - 10.2022
  • Established and maintained labor and material costs for all plan options and option catalog items.
  • Managed 10 plus communities by creating the material and labor budgets for all houses as well as accounted for the profit margins.
  • Trained newer coordinators on how to work job starts, send EPO’s, and other job processes.

Purchasing Coordinator I

Highland Homes
06.2019 - 11.2020
  • Coordinated the purchasing/budgeting process in conjunction with sales, estimating, and builders in the field to support the construction process from start to finish.
  • Collaborated with vendors for option pricing and modified bids for new job starts and plan revisions.
  • Created purchase orders for all construction starts using the preliminary purchasing report with budgets specific to the appropriate exit strategy information, assuring all budgets remain in their specified margin.
  • Verified accuracy of all material takeoffs from estimators and vendors and entered data before posting job budgets.
  • Processed requests from the field for extra material and coded change orders from the field to create appropriate budgets.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Family and Consumer Sciences, Child and Family Studies

Baylor University
05.2017

Skills

  • Cost analysis
  • Purchase order management
  • Bidding processes
  • Budget management
  • Pricing updates
  • Purchase orders

Certification

American Management Association - 2024

Management Skills for New Managers

Timeline

Assistant Purchasing Manager

Highland Homes
06.2023 - Current

Purchasing Coordinator III

Highland Homes
10.2022 - 06.2023

Purchasing Coordinator II

Highland Homes
11.2020 - 10.2022

Purchasing Coordinator I

Highland Homes
06.2019 - 11.2020

Bachelor of Science - Family and Consumer Sciences, Child and Family Studies

Baylor University

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