Procurement Specialist
The Procurement Specialist ensures products and services are purchased in a cost-effective and timely manner leveraging best practices and providing exceptional customer service. Partners with departments across the organization to manage sourcing, vendor negotiations, and terms.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the purchasing process from selecting suppliers to providing guidance on sourcing and procurement processes.
- Prepare and process purchase orders and purchase requisitions, and maintain documentation of the acquisition of goods and services
- Promote a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs.
- Collaborating with IT, create documentation around evaluation, integration, and governance following IT best practices for application adoption, license provisioning, security, privacy, and user on- and off-boarding.
- Develop and track action plans for upcoming renewal dates.
- Assist stakeholders with identifying tools to increase business effectiveness.
- Build and manage the selection of preferred vendors and document the selection process for those vendors
- Sourcing, negotiating, and engaging reliable suppliers and vendors to secure advantageous terms
- Request for Proposals (RFPs) and contracts
- Evaluates and analyzes purchasing trend and price trend to identify forecasting demand and minimize purchasing costs.
- Reviewing existing contracts with suppliers and vendors to ensure on-going feasibility.
- Building and maintaining long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.
- Coordinate payment, delivery, scheduling, and organization of purchases, and place orders to ensure ongoing supply, if needed
- Performing risk assessments on potential contracts and agreements.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management.