Procurement Project Specialist

Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent plus two - four years of work related experience, or Associate’s degree plus two years of work related experience, or Bachelor’s degree plus one year work related experience. Negotiating lowest cost balanced against the optimum quality and schedule needs to meet contractual commitments determining best value and fair & reasonableness when applicable using price/cost analysis and data or other accepted justification.

Overview:

VTG is seeking a Procurement Project Specialist to support our Virginia Beach, VA location. 

Responsibilities:

• Supports the Supply Chain Function by: receiving procurement requirements from Logistics in spreadsheet format with requirements to include materials and services. Applies understanding of the purchasing process, responsibilities and ethical standards for the procurement of those materials and services. Follows FAR/DFARS guidelines to process, evaluate and execute purchasing actions.
• Supports the operations function by: Analyzing the requirements of the commodity, including preliminary specifications, preferred supplier, and date commodity is needed, obtaining best value, expediting and providing timely project closeout.
• Prepares and Issues Request for Quotation/Proposal.
• Evaluates vendor quotations and uses appropriate purchasing technique to ensure quality, price, delivery, and service objectives are met. Negotiating lowest cost balanced against the optimum quality and schedule needs to meet contractual commitments determining best value and fair & reasonableness when applicable using price/cost analysis and data or other accepted justification.
• Submits purchasing requisition information to Logistics via accepted spreadsheet for Requisition Inputting.
• Issues/Implements purchase contracts via purchase order that comply with company and government regulations.
• Expedites commodities for timely delivery and investigates delinquent purchase orders.
• Coordinate return of goods for replacement and/or credit following Company Work Instructions.
• Reviews Purchase Order file documentation for completeness and correctness, maintaining shipping notices, amendments and other documents to assure accurate retention of records.
• Coordinates with Accounting Department to ensure proper receipt and payment of invoices.
• Ensures Purchase Order Files are properly maintained, closed-out & stored.
• Assists in the following when needed:
• Compile material spreadsheets from Bill of Material.
• Analyzes requirements of the commodity, including preliminary specifications,
• Researching part #, NSN & MILSPEC, if applicable, using WEBFLIS, IHS, vendor contacts/resources or other approved domain.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent plus two - four years of work related experience, or Associate’s degree plus two years of work related experience, or Bachelor’s degree plus one year work related experience.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Order processing systems and knowledge of and experience with MS Office applications and advance working knowledge of MS Excel.
• Working knowledge of Deltek Costpoint system.
• Must be a US Citizen.