Description
This position has functional responsibility for planning, coordinating and monitoring the day-to-day operations/escalations of the department functions of: purchasing, contract record keeping, reporting, contributing to compliance management for audits and internal controls, administrative oversight for agency relationships and financial administrative. Collects approved purchase orders; obtains and negotiates bids from vendors; places and tracks purchase orders; and reconciles invoices. Manages and monitors controls and provides data/metrics regarding vendor relationships, customer relationships, cost savings opportunities and service enhancements for the team. Provides input to manager for planning, developing and implementation of short and long range objectives, annual budgets and external funds for assigned areas. Interfaces and collaborates with internal and external audiences including central procurement, central facilities, Office of General Counsel, internal audits, outside and vendor agencies as needed. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Employees in this classification typically analyze, compare and evaluate various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities. Primary activities and decision making authority are predominantly performed independently affecting business operations to a substantial degree. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.