Senior Buyer

The Senior Buyer will apply sound procurement techniques to support acquisition planning, acquisition strategies, and subsequent acquisition of materials and simple services to support prime contract operations. The successful candidate will accomplish these objectives through daily, competent performance of the following duties.

Principal Accountabilities

Compliance

• Responsible for complying with corporate policies, procedures, and underlying Federal, state, and/or local regulations concerning the purchase or shipment of goods, materials, or services.
• Responsible for purchasing highly complex or unusual, technical, or high value materials, supplies, or services.
• Maintains a working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations and standard commercial procurement practices.
• Generates Purchase Orders in final form for approval and signature.
• Prepares and maintains a complete Purchase Order file in accordance with Federal Acquisition policies, Corporate Procurement guidance, and other applicable references to ensure compliance throughout the procurement cycle.
• Responsible to develop, manage and evaluate Regional Commodity Agreements (RCA).
• Reviews commodity agreements, RCA releases and purchase requisitions for clarity, compliance, detail, completeness, and obtains additional information considered necessary.

Analysis

• Reviews purchase requisitions for clarity, compliance, detail, completeness, and obtains additional information considered necessary.
• Evaluates bids, selects, and recommends suppliers and negotiates price, quality, and service. Supports Procurement Expediting team in following up on all awards through completion of order when disciplinary type actions or change orders are required.
• Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, return of materials, over-shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes.
• Conducts supplier site visits and rates them as to production capability, performance, and delivery and interviews potential suppliers.
• Review solicitation responses and perform relevant analyses to include price and cost, Statement of Work compliance, delivery terms, payment terms, and other terms and conditions of the procurement.
• Negotiates all aspects of the procurement to include price, payment and delivery terms, quality requirements, and other factors with suppliers to achieve the best value procurement possible.

Stakeholder Management

• Supports Procurement Expediting team coordinating with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over-shipments, cancellations, and engineering change orders.
• Serve as a business advisor to internal customers, providing alternative solutions to requested items when such solution would provide a benefit to the Company (i.e. enhanced performance, cost savings, or positive schedule impact).
• Coordinates with Procurement Expediting to resolve discrepancies between purchase orders and receipt documents and invoices, up to and including executing change orders, enforcing liquidated damages, or recommending temporary suspension, in some cases.
• Commercially and administratively manages the procurement process from order placement through receipt of products and subsequent payment of invoices, coordinating closely with the Procurement Expediting Team.

Initiative

• Under general supervision, purchases a high volume and variety of materials, supplies, and services.
• Apply sound procurement techniques to support acquisition planning, acquisition strategies, and subsequent acquisition of materials and simple services.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Develop sourcing lists for various commodities to support the development of requests for information (RFIs), quotations (RFQs), proposals (RFPs) and invitations to bid.
• Identifies problems, analyzes alternatives, and develops viable recommendations.

Organizational Skill

• May be assigned higher value or higher complexity tasks with oversight from more senior level staff.
• Procures using streamlined acquisition methods adopted by the Company.
• Actively manage the procurement process from order placement through receipt of products and subsequent payment of invoices.
• Actively manages supplier performance through consistent communication to ensure proper adherence to purchase order terms and conditions.
• Participates in the invoice approval process to ensure that supplier invoices are in accordance with purchase order terms and conditions, and assists in resolving issues, as necessary.
• Plans, organizes, prioritizes and performs multiple tasks to perform job functions in an orderly, efficient manner.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to: Procurement Manager

Knowledge & Skills

• Organization, prioritization, analytical, and researching skills.
• Clearly and concisely articulate services/requirements in writing.
• Knowledge of local market practices, strong interpersonal skills, and ability to work independently and effectively in a team environment.
• Requires comprehensive knowledge of government subcontracting, understanding of FAR/DFAR requirements and applicable experience, as well as the ability to perform non-routine job requirements within the scope of the position.
• Ability to work across various functions and disciplines of supply chain management (SCM) and operations and business operations.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment that requires handling multiple tasks at a given time and rapidly adapting to changing priorities and schedules.
• Pro-active, and excellent verbal and written communication skills and significant attention to detail.

Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in Business Administration or a related discipline is required.
• Strong working knowledge and experience administering government contracts/subcontracts with FAR regulations.
• Experience supporting US Department of Defense and Department of State prime contracts.
• Experience directly managing various contract (Micro purchase, credit card, blanket agreements, etc.) types.
• Experienced working in ERP systems and data entry and analysis. Costpoint and Maximo experience is highly desired.
• Must have previous Delegation of Authority (DOA)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and Projects).
• Language Skills: Strong, professional, oral and written English communication skills.
• Supervisory experience is desired.

Physical Requirements/Working Environment

• Normal office environment.

Travel

• Willing to travel to hostile areas.

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