The Procurement Specialist will perform technical duties related to maximizing value for money and ensuring a responsible and continuous supply chain in accordance with established polices and regulations; leverage external capabilities through vendor relationship management; engage internal stakeholders in optimizing and protecting the supply chain; perform administrative duties requiring a high degree of expertise in more than one of the areas of office management, fiscal management, analytics, and stakeholder relations.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Identify critical supplier relationship gaps and report clinic/vendor feedback to Purchasing Director
Drive an effective and efficient end-to-end supply chain in collaboration with Clinical VP and Purchasing Director. Focused on managing and consolidating savings across organization.
Understand price risk and backorder exposure to eliminate or reduce supply shortages and invoice holds
Monitor and manage inventory system in conjunction with Data Specialist
Collaborate with Accounts Payable and Practice Supervisors to maintain the flow of the Procure-to-Pay process
Reports status of projects, cost savings initiatives and streamlining options to the Ops Field Leaders
Basic understanding of commercial facilities and vendor management
Negotiate contracts with vendors that accomplish the scope of work but also results in cost savings
Understand organization's purchasing governance and be able to explain to others
Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements and Qualifications:
Enthusiastically embrace challenges
Effectively cope with change and shift gears quickly
Be dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
Make quality decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement
Demonstrate trustworthiness and integrity by appropriately presenting the unvarnished truth, keeping confidences and admitting mistakes
Practice attentive and active listening
Accomplish tasks through formal channels and informal network
Eliminate roadblocks and create focus to accomplish priority tasks
Separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow
Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
Cooperative, supportive, encouraging, and candid with peers; seen as a team player
Community Care Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).