Purchasing Advisor V

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Pay Range: $100.58hr - $105.58hr

• 7+ years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.
• Experience leading complex strategic sourcing, procurement advisory, or supplier selection efforts for large-scale utility, technology, field services, infrastructure, or capital program procurements.
• Strong understanding of source-to-contract processes, RFP development, commercial structuring, proposal evaluation, negotiation support, supplier onboarding, and contract handoff.
• Attention to detail to maintain clear documentation of procurement assumptions, decisions, risks, and evaluation rationale.

• 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 understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends, and supplier technology road maps.
• Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy and discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiates refunds.
• Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization.
• Ensures that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed.
• Develops and establishes category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes, and procedures.
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities, assessing current and future business processes for best work practice, as well as innovative procurement solutions that provide cost savings and process efficiencies for the organization.
• Establishes strong business relationships with key business partners and clients across Operating Units and external organizations.

• Experience in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) field services (meter installation, disposal, inventory, warehousing, etc.).
• Experience working in environments governed by union labor agreements.
• Experience in utility, regulated, or large enterprise procurement environments.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready summaries, decision materials, issue logs, and procurement recommendations.
• Working knowledge of Ariba, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, coordination, and execution tracking.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional stakeholders and translate complex program, operational, legal, commercial, technical, and governance requirements into clear procurement direction.
• Ability to learn quickly to gain expert-level familiarity with utility procurement controls, competitive sourcing practices, audit-ready documentation, confidentiality requirements, and supplier communication protocols.