Procurement Specialist

Job Title: Procurement Specialist

Location: Opa-Locka, FL (100% in office, not hybrid/remote)

Salary: $70k - $75k base, plus bonus and excellent benefits that includes 401k and 100% paid health insurance.

Schedule: 8am - 4:30pm Mon. - Fri.

**** Bilingual Spanish is required *****

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plans, organizes, directs, and controls activities related to the procurement function
• Maintains inventory of listed items, tracks their availability, and prepares reports as needed
• Prepares delivery schedule and monitors against production plan to guarantee availability; reports any issues.
• Utilizes appropriate negotiation and purchasing techniques to maximize savings and benefit to the company.
• Recruits, evaluates, and maintains suppliers while maintaining the highest code of ethics and conduct; maintains the approved supplier list (ASL).
• Makes all necessary inquiries to obtain the best quote for all of the products and/or services, as needed.
• Prepares contracts, bids, proposals, and vendor agreements for legal review, price, and acceptability of items to specifications, as requested.
• Prepares and issues purchase orders and change notices for raw materials, equipment parts and general office supplies.
• Oversees all activities related to procurement of a commodity from intent to purchase through delivery of commodity; monitors processing of the PO in the system until it’s fully closed.
• Tracks on time deliveries with vendors.
• Investigates and resolves pricing discrepancies between supplier invoices and purchase orders.
• Enters records of all received materials in the system on a daily basis.
• Maintains and keeps procurement records.
• Participates in inventory of materials and equipment parts on a monthly basis, as assigned.