Procurement Specialist - Denver, United States - Community Care Partners

Description

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).