Contracts & Procurement Specialist II
Oakland Community Health NetworkTroy, MI, USjob_description.job_card.30_days_ago
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job_description.job_card.job_descriptionPrepares contracts for OCHN and is responsible for making certain contracts have appropriately addressed all risk management, legal and compliance issues. Prepares contracts with providers and other contractors related to grants, monitor grant activities and reporting requirements, coordinates reporting requirements with persons assigned to manage the grants as needed. Negotiate complex, critical, and / or high-risk projects to drive a clear understanding of supplier, performance expectations, mitigate risk, establish key deliverable dates, pricing and other contract terms to ensure sourcing solutions drive value in an appropriate time frame. Serve as liaison between OCHN staff and vendors during contract negotiations, implementation, and management. Monitor all contracts and agreements for assigned commodities. Monitor suppliers, cost, quality, and delivery performance. Develop standard and ad-hoc reporting on these factors as needed. Ability to work well and collaborate among all OCHN teams and external stakeholders simultaneously. Advanced critical thinking skills, writing skills, and financial skills. Develop standard and ad-hoc reporting on activities as needed. Maintains records management of all contracts and solicitations - tracking them from initial draft through completion. Engage internal customers for the purpose of meeting OCHN needs and improving effectiveness, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Create and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships with suppliers to foster feedback and continuous improvement. Under the Supervision of the Manager of Contracts and Procurement, work with the OCHN staff to ensure a consistent, standardized approach to OCHN Procurement. Other duties as assigned by Manager of Contracts and Procurement and Chief Legal Officer. Three years’ experience in the field of buying for a public agency of end items such as services, supplies, and equipment. Bachelor’s degree in business, purchasing, or related field from an accredited college. Experience in contract processing, purchasing, accounting or related field. Experience with Microsoft 365. Experience in purchasing, procurement, business administration, public administration, accounting, or related areas which included contact with public. Experience in leading evaluation committees and recommending awards; negotiating with bidders and contractors. Experience in maintaining a positive, professional attitude and ethical relations with vendors and OCHN staff within a fast-paced environment. Experience with providing direction and assistance to other staff relative to the procurement process as well as serving as mentor to new procurement staff. Experience in contract negotiation and practices. Advanced critical thinking skills, writing skills, negotiation skills and financial skills. Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with vendors, employees, and staff. Demonstrated highly effective organizational skills. Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills. Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills with particular emphasis in decision making, building consensus, development of collaborative work plans, and implementation activities that produce desired outcomes. Demonstrated ability to handle a high volume of relatively complex assignments accurately and timely. Demonstrated skills in preparing technical specifications, scopes of work, invitations for bids, requests for proposals, and analysis and evaluation of bids and proposals. Demonstrated skills in maintaining professional demeanor during stressful situations and the understanding of the importance of confidentiality. Demonstrated skills to work separately within direct and indirect reporting lines, and work effectively with all levels of the organization. Knowledge of budget preparation and analysis. Knowledge of contract processes and requirements preferred. Knowledge of purchasing and procurement practices and policies including laws and regulations regarding public procurement preferred. Understanding of facility and information technologies Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization; demonstrating loyalty to the organization and its mission and values; maintaining social, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adhering to codes of conduct and ethical principles. (Integrity / Building Trust) Making customers and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships, recognizing that the ultimate customer is the person served. (Customer Focus) Actively identifying new areas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application. (Continuous Learning) Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence in addition to consciously adopting organizational standards of excellence. (Work Standards) Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message. (Communication) Must have available means of transportation to and from OCHN and for required offsite meetings or site visits. Must be available for meetings and events which may occur outside of standard office hours. Work performed primarily in an office environment. Hybrid (onsite / remote) work schedule available. The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Job Description
Job Description
The Contracts and Procurement Specialist II provide contract and procurement activities for OCHN as well provide related technical support to the Manager of Contracts and Procurement.
Essential Functions
Procurement :
- Locate, analyze, develop, and maintain a consolidated vendor roster to meet current and future commodity needs.
- Serves as primary lead Contract and Procurement Specialist for RFP (Request for Proposal), RFQ (Request for Quotes) and bid processes including technology purchases which are high-level, technical and require the application of complex procurement standards and procedures.
- Ability to perform emergency procurement activities as warranted by national, state, or local crisis situations.
- Provide content expertise in the development of Procurement policies and procedures.
- Provide content expertise in the drafting and collaboration of Scope of Work for RFPs and RFQs, many of which are high-level, technical and require the application of complex procurement standards and procedures.
- Drive continuous improvement in all aspects of the procurement process.
- Implement appropriate sourcing strategies to control OCHN purchased material costs and to assure an adequate source of supply, including conducting market research and analysis.
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OCHN is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive and equitable culture. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that embraces and encourages our employees' differences. This includes (but is not limited to) ability, age, color, family type, gender expression and identity, individual expression, medical conditions, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and all other diverse and wonderful characteristics.
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