Procurement Agent 1

Job Title

Pay Range: $27.17hr - $32.17hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• Associate's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Typically possesses 0-3 years of experience in negotiating and purchasing.
• Basic knowledge and demonstrated ability to apply principles of financial analysis, activity based costing and supply chain methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers and suppliers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Independently commit the company by planning and authorizing purchase contracts, contract changes and other procurement instruments having signatory authority.
• Lead procurement team and manage the total procurement effort for assigned projects/programs, including directing tasks such as fact finding, price and cost analysis, source selection, negotiations, and bidder briefings and debriefings.
• Lead on-site audits and supplier assessments as necessary to qualify, evaluate and develop suppliers.
• Improve supplier performance by monitoring cost, quality, and schedule compliance; initiating and implementing appropriate action to resolve problems; and mediating conflicts and establishing resolution with customers and suppliers.
• Manage procurement packages by gaining a thorough understanding of supplier-customer relationships; by developing a working knowledge of own organization's relationships with other organizations; and by developing and implementing and authorizing actions to incorporate with other functional disciplines.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of procurement basics, ethical business conduct, legal principles, and protection of proprietary data by complying with company policies, procedures and accepted business practices.
• Maintain contractual integrity of procurement packages by reviewing, determining and incorporating appropriate State and Federal regulations, contract flow-down requirements, and other special terms and conditions peculiar to individual contracts types.
• Develop other procurement team members by providing guidance on technical procurement issues.
• Foster increased productivity and advancement opportunities by personal commitment to professional development and by practicing continuous improvement of processes.
• Support corporate goals for small business/small disadvantaged business by promoting the use of qualified sources and by seeking, encouraging and assisting new candidates to become qualified.

Skills:

• Experience with SAP ECC for materials management, purchase orders, change orders, requisitions.
• Good attention to detail, can learn MS Office suite of apps.

Qualification And Education:

• Education Requirement: 4 year degree or equivalent based on demonstrated experience.