Purchasing Specialist
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Job Location:
Providence, RI - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in childrens lives Look no further and join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.
Full-time employees receive:
- Competitive Pay
- Generous PTO
- 13 paid holidays
- Medical dental vision and MORE
Meeting Street is currently looking for a full-time Purchasing Specialist for 40 hours per week.
Duties:
- Perform routine procurement and contracting activities under the guidance and supervision of the CFO
- Semi-annually review and update procedures for: Purchasing standards ensuring that compliance with Meeting Streets policies and practices. Vendor selection process ensuring that compliance with Meeting Streets policies and practices are met including the organizations commitment to supplier diversity and promoting diversity across the business ecosystem.
- Create and maintain preferred vendor list prioritizes small businesses minority and women owned businesses.
- Manage and issue purchase orders according to our organizations policies in the most expeditious and transparent manner possible with high accuracy.
- Authorize payments and manage purchasing expenses with meticulous record-keeping
- Collaborating with various internal departments to ensure all customer requests are fulfilled. Work closely with the Director of Capital Facilities and the IT team to create and source Capital purchases.
Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our communitys future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect compassion integrity inclusivity and excellence. To uphold these commitments we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.
It is our policy to recruit hire train transfer and promote employees and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration education and training programs and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race color religion marital status gender sexual preference or orientation gender expression or identity age national origin or ancestry legally recognized disability citizenship status genetic information veteran status military status socioeconomic background homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.
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- Bachelors degree in business accounting supply chain management or related field.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and learn/use a variety of computer software programs.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong project management skills
- Analytical and mathematical capabilities to compare prices and quantities while considering vendor contract terms.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Purchasing
- Procurement
- EDI
- HR Sourcing
- Microsoft Outlook
- Pivot tables
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- ERP Systems
- negotiation
- Contracts
About Company
Meeting Street is where children of all abilities thrive through individualized attention from highly trained professionals who work as a team to bring…
