JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for assuring timely purchase, delivery, and receipt of designated products and services at the lowest overall total cost to the organization. Applies solid knowledge of purchasing principles, theories, concepts, and procedures to ensure that the right products are available at the right time, price, and quality.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Manage complex purchase orders through all stages (creation, change, tracking, closure, and deletion).
• Collaborate with more complex BU’s to understand purchase requirements to support business needs.
• Manage 3 way match process through closure.
• Verify and validate that the requested purchase is in alignment with standard purchasing practices or escalate as required to the appropriate Sourcing Team Member.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships in the supplier community including minority vendors and diversity programs to enhance Charter's reputation in the communities served.
• Assist with auditing vendor's performance on invoice and shipment discrepancies, and communicate results with internal departments on issue resolution.
• Contribute to cost control initiatives by actively participating in vendor reduction, product standardization and excess material liquidation, item master cleanup, and maintenance activities.
• Maximize company value by effectively auditing vendor's performance on invoice and shipment discrepancies, and communicate results with internal departments on issue resolution.
• Provide support to less experienced staff.
• Support Sourcing with RFQ/RFP's between suppliers and internal departments to include analyzing items, cost and usage.
• Perform other duties as assigned and/or required.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Knowledge of physical database structures, disaster recovery and best practices
• Troubleshooting skills with ability to isolate and resolve problems
• Ability to build trust and relationships with Procurement, IT and end users/Business Units
• Motivated, self-directed work ethic, willing to pursue individual and team goals
• Strong detail orientation with emphasis on accuracy and analysis of various data structures
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and organize effectively
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a collaborative and dynamic team environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects and seek input to prioritize
• Ability to analyze and interpret data

Education

Bachelor's degree

Related Work Experience- Number of Years

Experience in purchasing life cycle methodology- 3-5

Experience in negotiation, and project management- 1-3

WORKING CONDITIONS

Office environment

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