Purchasing Advisor V

Job Title: Purchasing Advisor V
Job Location - Rosemead, CA
Duration - 18 months

Experience Required: 10 years of experience

Responsibilities

• Negotiate favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term contracts with suppliers.
• Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software, or components.
• Acquire and maintain an understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends, and supplier technology road maps.
• Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy.
• Discuss defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiate refunds.
• Review and negotiate company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work.
• Identify, drive, and implement suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization.
• Negotiate contracts and review opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
• Understand and apply business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results.
• Identify and execute purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research.
• Ensure that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed.
• Develop and establish category management in accordance with overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes, and procedures, ensuring category management delivers against targets and objectives.
• Develop skills and knowledge to become a subject matter expert in managed spend categories.
• Identify and implement 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.
• Establish strong business relationships with key business partners and clients across Operating Units and external organizations.
• Ensure the protection of all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets, and properly access and manage private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Scope/Focus

• Apply mastery of in-depth knowledge in one job family or broader expertise in most areas of a job function.
• May act as a project manager for one or more short to mid-term projects with responsibilities for results in terms of costs, methods, and outcomes.
• Apply extensive technical expertise and have full knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Challenges are atypical and require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.

Accountability

• Contribute to defining the direction for new processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with an impact on work group results.
• Direct involvement in tasks necessary for project execution.
• Identify problems and solutions.
• Collaborate to establish project objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables, and budgets.

Working Relationships

• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other team members.
• Exercise considerable latitude in determining deliverables.
• Completed work is reviewed for achievement of desired results.
• As a project manager, resolve issues and ensure task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members.

Decision Making/Impact

• Exercise judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action, which have a moderate corporate impact or moderate to major departmental or business unit impact.
• Authority to negotiate to resolve differences.
• May make independent decisions when recommending appropriate scope and strategies.
• Guide the successful completion of major programs, projects, and objectives and may function in a project leadership role.
• Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve major program/project objectives.

Organizational Competencies

• Leads with Vision
• Advances Innovative Solutions
• Makes Sound Decisions
• Creates a Safety Culture
• Communicates with Impact
• Fosters an Inclusive Environment
• Drives for Results
• Builds Organizational Capabilities
• Focuses on Service Excellence

Minimum Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.