Procurement Specialist

6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Acuity International

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engineering and consulting • software solutions • medical care • occupational health • global mission

1001 - 5000 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🏛️ Government

🔐 Security

Description

• Manages procurement schedules/ BPAs to ensure the timely delivery of materials and services. • Manages and maintains supplier relationships while creating key supplier relations, including sourcing of Local and Non Local vendors. • Negotiates vendor terms and pricing. • Manages supplies issues which minimizes project supply issues. • Cradle to Grave procurement administration and management. • Ensure compliance with all organizations policies and procedures, terms and conditions (T&C’s) and legal requirements which will mitigate compliance and risk management during the procurement process. • Follows the five (5) R principles of Right Price, Right Time, Right Material, Right Place and Right Quality. • Works with subcontracts and finance to ensure budgets, spending and proper forecast of procurement needs. • Continuously assess and improve procurement processes, implement best practices and leverage technology to streamline operations. • Works closely with internal clients (e.g., operations, logistics, projects, finance and legal) to understand business needs and provide procurement support. • Promote ethical procurement practices and explore opportunities to enhance sustainability across the supply chain. • Participate in trade fairs to promote equal opportunity in Supply Chain Management and Compliance. • Establish relationships between Subcontracting, Procurement, and End Users. • Issues purchase orders and creates change orders as necessary. • Manages vendors and ensures delivery as expected. • Manages material warranties and return/exchange processes. • Works with the Business Development (BD) department to review and provide pricing and delivery times for proposals. • Develops, runs, and provides reports, metrics, and KPIs as necessary. • Creates and adjusts policies and procedures as necessary. • Works closely with healthcare compliance, export compliance, and logistics. • Procurement of material from international vendors. • Leads and attends meetings with different programs to ensure their needs are being met and/or identify solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business or related field or 10+ years of relevant experience in procurement with at least 3 years in a leadership role. • Proven track record of successful vendor negotiations. • Strong understanding of global supply chains and market dynamics. • Strong understanding of procurement best practices, processes and tools. • Strong understanding of prime contract requirements, Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR), and International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR). • Strong multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment. • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. • Demonstrated ability to develop effective relationships internally and externally. • Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills to deal effectively with other functions to identify and solve problems. • Strong negotiation and influencing skills. • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. • Comfortable working with executives and representing functional plans and priorities to senior leaders. • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities. • Basic computer skills which also includes the ability to use Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.