• Ensure timely solicitations for departments by strictly adhering to federal and state procurement regulations, resulting in efficient and compliant procurement processes.• Manage complex procurement projects involving multiple stakeholders and vendors, ensuring timely delivery of services and adherence to budget.• Negotiate favorable terms with suppliers, including price reductions, improved quality, and enhance service levels.• Educate stakeholders on procurement processes (RFQs, IFBs, RFPs), fostering strong relationships and ensuring compliance with policies.• Optimize procurement processes through cross-functional collaboration, driving operational improvements.• Ongoing professional development through regular attendance at public procurement and transit conferences.• Collaborate with Pcard administrator to manage 430 P-cards, providing support to internal customers.

• Manage RFQs, IFBs, and RFPs for high-profile departments, ensuring timely execution and adherence to federal and state procurement codes.• Identify and secure over 400 sole sources to meet departmental needs, resolving procurement challenges and guiding departments in understanding procurement processes and codes.• Develop awarded agreements from referred solicitations, collaborating with contract analysts to ensure compliance and efficiency.• Conduct and oversee evaluation meetings, debriefs, and site visits.• Leverage strong communication skills to build rapport between internal customers and vendors, enhancing collaboration and promoting effective workflow.

• Efficiently procure over 200 vehicle and facility parts and supplies for inventory, capital assets, and services, while proficiently operating JDE Edwards.• Request quotes, evaluate suppliers, negotiate terms, and award contracts, ensuring compliance with federal/state regulations and departmental SOPs by assessing pricing, quantity, specifications, and supplier responsiveness.• Expedite current and past due orders to meet customer needs and due dates efficiently.• Collaborate closely with inventory control to assess requisitions, manage out-of-stocks, and maintain optimal min/max levels.• Proactively resolve invoice and shipping discrepancies with vendors, warehouse, and accounting, ensuring timely and effective solutions.

•Provide security and accountability of inventory through transactions documentation, process and procedure verification, and review.• Perform daily analysis of material and parts out-of-stock data, identifying trends, researching root-cause, and issue corrective action to prevent future shortages.• Fulfill daily MRP and requisition review, including processing and forwarding out-of-stock requests to Buyers.• Coordinate and oversee physical inventory counts at assigned business locations, advising the discrepancies and accuracy of inventory.• Identify potential failures as part of planning process, mitigating associated risks, process improvement opportunities for quality, accuracy, and efficiency gains.

•Expedite past due and current orders to our growing company needs and resolving discrepancies that may come with our vendors to ensure orders are fulfilled.• Process requisitions to purchase orders and confirming orders with vendors as well as confirming contract orders for accounting to process.• Assist with issuing procurement cards and weekly reports to over 10 different divisions and assisting with any procurement projects as needed.

•Disburse and process all accounts payable checks to customer and vendors in a timelymanner while handling various request and task from up to 10 different departments.• Initiate conclusions in order to resolve inconsistency within invoices that need to be sentout to vendors while ensuring all accounts are up to date.• Assist and implement team building activities in order to rapport with departments as apositive entity.