Senior Technical Procurement Advisor

Pay Range: $78.86hr - $83.86hr Job Overview:
Our client is seeking a Tech Purchasing Advisor to negotiate favorable terms, manage contracts, and procure technical equipment, custom engineered products, software, and systems. This role serves as a senior subject matter expert responsible for developing enterprise procurement training programs and applying business process improvement principles to enhance procurement capabilities and contract literacy across the organization. Job Discipline
- Technical Purchasing:
Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software, or components. Acquires and maintains an understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends, and supplier technology roadmaps. Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy, discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers, and negotiates refunds.

Career Level
- Advisor Scope and Focus:
Applies mastery of in-depth knowledge in one job family or broader expertise in most areas of a job function, potentially acting as a project manager for one or more short- to mid-term projects with responsibilities for results in terms of costs, methods, and outcomes. Applies extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines to address atypical challenges that require regular ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.

Accountability:
Contributes to defining the direction for new processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with an impact on work group results. Directly participates in tasks necessary for project execution, identifies problems and solutions, and collaborates to establish project objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables, and budgets. Working Relationships:
Determines methods and procedures on new assignments, coordinates activities of other team members, and exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables. Resolves issues as a project manager and ensures task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members. Decision Making and Impact:
Exercises judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action that have a moderate organizational impact or moderate to major departmental/business unit impact. Guides the successful completion of major programs, projects, and objectives, functioning in a project leadership role where quality decision-making is critical to program success. Responsibilities:
Reviews and negotiates organization-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work. Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization. Negotiates contracts and reviews opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods. Understands and applies business tools including financial, logistical, commercial, risk, and cost analysis to attain desired results.

Identifies and executes purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research. Ensures corporate procurement policies and procedures are followed. Develops and establishes category management in accordance with overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes, and procedures, ensuring category management delivers against targets and objectives. Develops skills and knowledge to serve as a subject matter expert in managed spend categories.

Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities, assessing current and future…