MANAGER, CORPORATE PURCHASING

Benefits Information

Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package with options for you and your family including :

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Matching
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discount
• Reduced Tuition Rates
• Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k)
• Pet Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Paid Training
• Flexible Spending Account

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Responsibilities

Are you looking for a career you can feel good about? We hire only those that strive to do their best. By joining our family, you'll receive the honor and recognition that comes with working for the industry's global leader in evidenced based rehabilitation.

Why Work for GEO :

• At GEO, we believe that diversity in our workforce and the inclusion of a variety of views, perspectives, and backgrounds are integral parts of our company's success.
• We believe that work is more than a place you go every day. It is about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things.
• Employee benefits play an important role in making The GEO Group a great place to work. At GEO, we believe in the three pillars of employee wellbeing : physical, emotional, and financial.

With comprehensive benefits and competitive wages, we trust that you will find all the resources you need here to be successful.

Summary

The Purchasing Manager manages and administers the day-to-day purchasing functions. This position provides direct supervision of the department, oversees select projects, programs, establishes procedures and recommends policies or policy changes.

Maintains national service and supply agreements for shared services. Ability to work independently organizing, analyzing, and reporting diverse sets of data from multiple sources.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• The Purchasing Manager manages, plans, organizes, coordinates and maintains all purchasing activities in support of corporate goals and objectives.
• Responsible for day-today operations of the department including the overall organization of the corporate purchasing team.
• Assists in reviewing vendor spend, making recommendations, identifying opportunities and able to create and report results utilizing extensive ad-hoc analytics.
• The Purchasing Manager develops and manages the implementation of purchasing policies, standards guidelines, working with internal stakeholders on compliance issues.
• Works with internal stakeholders on purchasing policies and procedures.
• The Purchasing Manager supervises the activities of Purchasing staff to include the assignment of specific tasks, general workload, professional training and other work-related duties.
• Establishes performance standards for the purchasing functions and monitors staff accomplishments against those standards.

Completes performance evaluations in accordance with company policies.

• The Purchasing Manager reviews and approves purchase orders in accordance with established guidelines and procedures.
• Conducts routine reviews and documentation updates regarding Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in the Purchasing area.
• The Purchasing Manager assesses and develops training materials and delivers training tofield level staff including top field level management.
• The Purchasing Manager manages significant cross functional projects to ensure goals and timelines are met.
• Responsible for day-to-day management of department budget and budgets of direct purchasing projects (i.e. branding, start-ups etc).
• The Purchasing Manager writes status updates and provides updates to field, regional or corporate level as required.
• Manages all corporate interdepartmental day-to-day items relating to purchasing i.e. with IS, accounting, Fixed Assets, A / P, Operations, Risk Management etc.
• Responsible for ensuring monitoring, assignments and timely completion regarding all queries, requests, reports, projects from field locations, regional offices.
• Prioritizes all tasks, items within area of responsibility, reports to Director the department regarding status of any problem areas.

Provides weekly internal reports.

• Works with vendors to negotiate terms and pricing for contracts and procurements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field. Master’s preferred.
• Ten (10) years purchasing experience. Minimum five (5) years supervisory or project experience in a purchasing capacity or related field preferred.
• Demonstrates strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent numerical, logic (business assumptions) and accounting accuracy.
• Able to work with complex data sets from multiple sources to create ad-hoc reports for analysis.
• Good presentation skills, ability to communicate to a high degree of effectiveness at all levels.
• Strong organization skills, excellent judgment and ability to apply flexible and effective solutions to ongoing or project problems as they arise.
• Strong ability to quickly troubleshoot and solve operational problems relating to the purchasing area.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Ability to travel required. Travel may vary from 5% to 35% depending on projects.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.

The GEO Group, Inc