ul>Oversees vendor performance and ensures that the procurement team keeps positive supplier relationships; Works collaboratively with internal customers (department and college leadership, faculty, staff) to understand requests and provide regular status updates; Signs off on any vendor contracts that are required by the college; Negotiates major vendor quotes for the college and works with University Procurement as required; Oversees specialized purchasing areas like research procurement activities to ensure alignment with grant regulations, sponsor guidelines, and institutional policies, while supporting the needs of principal investigators and research centers; Leads sourcing initiatives and works with university on major contract negotiations for the college; Collaborates with Finance, Legal, Academic Units, etc. to align procurement operations with institutional and college-wide initiatives; Directs procurement strategies for college-wide purchases; and. - Receives and processes purchase requests from internal customers (i.e., faculty, staff) by liaising with vendors to place orders, tracking receipts of goods, ensuring orders are fully completely/paid, and resolving issues that arise;
- Identifies the appropriate means to procure the goods (e.g., eVA purchasing system, P-card, honorarium request, reimbursement request, parking vouchers, etc.) and ensures requests are within procurement-related policies;
- Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) on assigned procurement areas like research related purchases or travel needs ensuring timely acquisition and compliance of specialized equipment and services; and.