Purchasing Coordinator
Prepared bid and proposal solicitation documents, newspaper advisement, bid tabulations, cost price analysis, informed the awarded vendor of the Districts recommendations. Processed and approved new vendors. Review contracts to ensure proper documentation. Helped the staff make purchases from purchasing cooperatives to get a substantial rebate from them. Coached, trained, and mentored less experienced staff on purchasing processes and procedures, and applicable software. Created and developed training materials and presentation on purchasing policies, processes and procedures for the district. Maintain compliance standards with TEA purchasing policies. Ensuring all required documents are in place for approval. Review, write, modify and approve purchases orders accordingly. Communicate with staff to let them know if a purchase order was not sent to the vendor. Investigated commodity codes. Took over Commerce bank reconciliation which got the District back to doing the process timely. Worked with accounts payable to ensure prompt payment for received and not received. Worked with the Chief Financial Officer on any special projects needed. Took T-600 and Disaster accounting FEMA classes.