Addison Group Hiring for Manager, Purchasing Operations and Business Analysis Job at Washington, DC Full Time

Manager, Purchasing Operations and Business Analysis

Washington, DC

• Manages and leads a team of purchasing professionals and analysts to:

• Assure all purchasing operations, including Procure to Pay Cycles, are performing efficiently and in a timely manner
• Assures requisitions are accurately processed into purchase orders in a timely manner, and sent to the vendors in the procurement system
• Analyze performance, efficiency, and results of entire procurement operations, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Meet or exceed related Service Level Agreement commitments with internal departments
• Ensure compliance with the Procurement regulations and manual
• Develops and monitors KPI’s for purchasing operations and sets performance expectations and goals with the staff.
• Manages and/or designs improvements to Procurement’s transactions within the solicitation, contracting, and Procure to Pay cycle. Facilitates or manages projects to implement those improvements.
• Works with Finance to ensure requisitions are properly funded and approved. Collaborates with Accounts Payable manager to ensure the invoicing and payment processes are complete and timely.
• Develops, leads, communicates, trains, executes, and enforces purchasing strategies, policy, and procedures across the company.
• Manages the Procurement card program. Leads spending reviews for these programs: identifies irregularities and communicates or enforces appropriately.
• Manages micro and small procurements as directed by management.
• Supports and promotes spending with local and small businesses.
• Serves as a liaison between the procurement functional team and the IT and Finance departments. Works with IT in planning, developing, implementing, upgrading, testing, and supporting new or existing applications used in the Department of Procurement.
• Researches and resolves Procurement Systems Administration problems, unexpected results or process flaws; performs scheduled activities, recommends solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements.
• Provides systems technical support and training to Procurement and other functional team staff members.
• Provides functional support activities including user/operations training, business continuity, and functional security requirement for all systems associated with procurement.
• Prepares regular and special reports as required by others to support management decision-making. Prepares activity and progress reports regarding the activities of the functional areas.
• Performs other related duties and projects as assigned at the discretion of the Director of Procurement, Goods and Services.

III. EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE & OTHER MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

The minimum qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability necessary for an individual to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable amounts of training are provided.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Computer Science/Information Technology, or related field from an accredited college or university and five (5) years of progressive experience in supply chain management, systems administration, or business analysis; or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Master’s degree or consulting experiences preferred.
• Minimum three (3) years of Procure-to-Pay experience, particularly in an Oracle cloud environment, strongly preferred. Project Management, Business Process Assessment, Functional Analysis, Data Modeling and Workflow Analysis in a utility industry is preferred.
• Must have current and hands-on experiences in leading functional teams, analyzing business processes, and procurement system expertise in supply chain management.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills.
• Possesses excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to multi-task with aggressive timetables.
• Detail oriented, self-starter, work independently of supervision, have a strong customer satisfaction orientation and be a team player.
• Utilizes personal computer and maintains a working knowledge of applicable software programs (i.e. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, etc.). Experience with enterprise resource planning systems (Oracle preferred).

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