Assistant Director of Education & Training Vendor

BakerRipley • Full-time • Houston, TX, US • 14h ago

CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Create and maintain relationships with vendors/suppliers.
Estimate and establish budgets for purchases.
Make professional decisions in a fast-paced environment.
Review all vendors and suppliers.
Maintain purchase records and other important data.
Negotiate pricing and supply contracts.
Assists in overseeing the overall activities of procurement in a sound, progressive, and ethical manner including: provides general oversight to all solicitation activities; assist with the development and maintenance of all purchasing related policies, processes, and procedures; reviews purchasing related processes, and procedures for compliance with board policies as well as state and federal laws and regulations; manage projects list, prepare and analyze reports to measure annual departmental output; assist with the preparation, administration, and monitoring of the Procurement Services budget; assist with planning and implementation of long-range goals and objectives and monitor progress of these goals.
Reviews and distributes sole source requests to procurement staff for research; approves/denies sole source requests.
Develops, manages, and conducts Procurement procedures and processes training sessions for District staff and potential suppliers.
Performs functions for complex and/or sensitive purchasing actions including conducting market research, researching past expenditures, specification development, guiding overall solicitation process including specification development, issuance, evaluation methodology, and award recommendation.
Represents the Director of Procurement Services as needed.
Maintains current knowledge of purchasing practices through vendor contact, organization membership, trade literature, training, and trade shows.
Performs other duties as assigned by appropriate administrator.

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