Description
Responsible for directing the overall purchasing function, including managerial administrative responsibilities through strategic sourcing, process improvement, data analysis, and team management. Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods and supplies. Develops and implements strategies for cost reduction, supplier consolidation, quality improvements and process efficiencies. Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy, and discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiates refunds. Requires the ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and the ability to communicate and influence executive leadership. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. 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.