Assistant Director Purchasing

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Assistant Director, Purchasing
Duties: Handles complicated and highly technical procurement activities across a wide variety of goods and services. Reporting to the Associate Director, Purchasing, the Assistant Director shall oversee a small team ensuring that purchases are made in accordance with the Code of Virginia, university policy and purchasing best practices. Managing the procurement cycle for the purchase of the most complex general goods and services; Receiving and reviewing requisitions, specifications, and scopes of work; and assimilating into detailed needs statements and bidding documents; Analyzing bids and proposals, working with evaluation committees to determine best value, and awarding contracts; Developing, championing and ensuring implementation of strategic sourcing/category management principles that will optimize total cost of ownership for assigned spend category; Developing contract negotiation strategies, and serving as the lead in driving contract negotiations to achieve stated goals and objectives; Utilizing rate control terms within agreements to maintain pricing in alignment with market through contract life cycle; Working collaboratively with business stakeholders to analyze, monitor and manage internal demand for related goods and services within assigned spend category; and Assisting in developing and executing category management strategies to include risk assessments; overall market, industry and supply base analysis; and category and vendor segmentation.

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