About vacancy
As a Senior Purchasing Agent supporting MC Dean’s growing businesses, your role will include:
- Functioning as a key liaison between the Procurement team and internal stakeholders including MC Dean’s Executive Team, Engineering, Sales, and Manufacturing
- Working closely with the core Program/Project teams to manage high visibility and high value programs, applying program/project management skills to assure the timely and efficient execution of MC Dean’s portfolio of projects
Your responsibilities will include:
- Procurement planning during the bidding phase
- Understanding contract specifications and bills of material
- Sourcing, identifying, and prequalifying vendors; developing comprehensive RFPs
- Analyzing multiple quotes (scope leveling); Vendor Matrix; working with project and engineering team to confirm completeness of scope of service and supply
- Negotiating and finalizing agreements
- Developing the Procurement Plan
- Post award, managing plan implementation
- Post award procurement planning and implementation on major projects and programs
- Transferring bid phase documents and knowledge to the project team
- Engaging with the project team on procurement planning & implementation
- Capturing and communicating market intelligence across projects & programs
- Understanding, evaluating, and incorporating current market conditions into procurement plans, including but not limited to:
- Pricing trends
- Lead times and logistical requirements
- Best value opportunities
- Alternative product opportunities (material cost/labor savings)
- Evolving contract compliance requirements
- Reading, understanding, and interpreting contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work and project schedules
- Traveling to project sites, manufacturers, and vendors as needed
Required Qualifications:
- Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills
- Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 9+ years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience
- U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a Security Clearance with the federal government
- Relevant purchasing experience sourcing and negotiating contracts with Original Equipment Manufacturers, construction/specialty trade subcontractors and fabricators
- Proven written and verbal communication abilities
- Proficiency with computer applications, including Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, and Microsoft Excel
- Familiarity with accounting principles
Abilities:
- Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time
- Sitting for extended periods of time
- Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction
- Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms (e.g., using a keyboard)
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
- Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
- Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
- Identify and understand the speech of another person