TITLE: SNR IT PURCHASING SPECIALIST
TYPE: PERMANENT
LOCATION: CYPRESS, CA
WORK SCHEDULE: HYBRID
INDUSTRY: MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION; PUBLICLY TRADED
COMPENSATION: $100,000 - $110,000 + BONUS
** CLIENT IS NOT OFFERING SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS POSITION
COMPANY INFO
Our client is a Fortune 500 company. They are a leader in their industry, manufacturing and distributing discrete goods for the building industry.
· Great company culture with emphasis on collaboration and team building
· Growth opportunity
· Minimal outsourcing
ROLE: The Snr IT Purchasing Specialist is responsible for competitively business critical, high risk, high dollar, high visibility and/or non-standard technology products and services, including hardware, software, maintenance, and maintenance renewals. The Snr IT Purchasing Specialist also researches, interviews, and negotiates with vendors to obtain best prices and terms for organization. In addition, performs basic review of contracts and terms and conditions, ensuring compliance with best practices.
Procurement Professional Knowledge – Knows and applies professional skills and/or knowledge of technology products purchasing, laws, policies, regulations, practices, purchasing methods and procedures.
Apply extensive knowledge of technology products purchasing, laws, policies, regulations, practices, purchasing methods and procedures
Use judgment to competitively source business critical, high risk, high dollar and/or high visibility technology products and services, including hardware, software, maintenance, and maintenance renewals
Independently apply advanced knowledge of contracts and terms and conditions
Use discretion to interpret, apply and make recommendations to modify contracts terms and conditions
Independently apply general knowledge of accounting principles and methods in relation to purchasing
Purchasing Methods - Knowledge of applicable sources, prices, market factors and product characteristics of the assigned commodities and/or services.
Reviews and analyzes business critical, high risk, high dollar, and/or highly visible purchase requests for accuracy, completeness and compliance to policy.
Conduct competitive analysis to recommend vendor(s) for business critical, high risk, high dollar, and highly visible products and services.
Identify and recommend process improvement opportunities to maximize efficiencies and reduce risk of errors.
Monitor delivery of purchased items
Communicate status of the order to customers
Independently reconcile problems that occur during the purchasing process, including the return of incorrect or defective goods
Negotiating - Knowledge of competitive pricing practices within industry to use in fact-based communication to effectively persuade and reach an agreement in the best interest of the organization.
Able to:
Use a range of approaches and strategies to gain support for ideas
Make concessions when required to reach agreement
Work for a win-win situation
Develop a line of reasoned argument
Put his/her point across clearly and concisely
Understand and represent the business need for the product and/or service
Respond to roadblocks with well thought out counter arguments
Form long-term relationships
Influence others
Emphasize how costs and problems can be mitigated
Handle objections
Challenge the point of view expressed by others
Get others to support views
Assess position of each party, explore and develop creative alternatives, and facilitate and implement resolution
Vendor Management - Manages the vendor performance to control cost, drive service excellence and mitigate risk throughout the relationship.
Communicate performance issues, address alternatives for resolution, and facilitate implementation of solution for high risk, high dollar technology products and/or services.
Communicate organization needs to vendor
Establish and maintain a strong relationship with vendors by listening to them, understanding and responding to their needs
Monitor ongoing transactional business to ensure compliance to pricing standards for scope of responsibility
Understand and communicate account management team responsibilities
Schedule and facilitate vendor reviews
Follow-up on review items, ensure they are addressed and communicate status to management
Communicate performance issues, address alternative for resolution and facilitate implementation of solution for high risk, high dollar and/or non-standard technology products and/or services
Contract Management - Knowledge of the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis for the purpose of maximizing financial and operational performance and minimizing risk.
Reviews contracts and redline business terms and conditions
Assist legal in understanding business needs or product and/or service for legal review of contract
Understand contract types and applicability of usage
Check and verify appropriate agreements are in place for the type of business, product and/or service being provided
Provide agreements to new vendors
REQUIRED & PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS