What are the responsibilities and job description for the Interim Procurement Manager position at Q2SS?
Q2 Strategies is conducting a search for a fast-growing public safety tech firm seeking to hire an Interim Procurement Manager in Decatur, GA!
Position will start at/around May 2025 and the duration will be approximately 4-months.
The Interim Procurement Manager will direct the procurement team in strategic sourcing and purchasing. They establish procurement benchmarks, strategies, develop policies, guidelines, and best practices for all procurement personnel to ensure a standardized and controlled process. This individual supervises the process of sourcing and purchasing essential materials for our business operations. Their duties include researching raw materials suppliers and comparing costs, negotiating purchase agreements, and developing inventory controls to identify demand for new materials.
Job Duties:
- Develop policies, guidelines and best practices for all contract management and controlled procurement.
- Facilitate the overall project management of strategic supplier reviews up to and including vendor implementation.
- Develop the procurement benchmark and establish procurement strategy for different categories thus evaluating quality, price, reliability, technical support and availability of goods and services.
- Monitor supplier and vendor compliance with contractual agreements.
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers.
- Evaluate vendor performance in relation to established service level objectives.
- Develop metrics and use data to drive continuous improvement establishing guidelines on how often the company gets price quotes for items, the number of bids to accept and which vendors to consider.
- Analyze current market trends and forecast future performance to provide appropriate procurement recommendations.
- Foster strong trust-based relationships with business partners in order to ensure that their procurement and contract management needs are effectively addressed.
- Negotiate with potential vendors, draft the procurement agreements, and follow the procurement process.
About You:
- Passionate: You love what you do and have a positive attitude. You care about your teammates and the results of your work while demonstrating humility.
- Coachable: Open to feedback and continual professional improvement. Flexible and adaptable.
- High Standards: Quality orientation. Follow through on commitments. A doer who gets it done.
- Efficient: Producer of significant output with minimal wasted effort. Excellent organizer, planner and prioritizer.
- Proactive: Self-starter who appropriately tackles problems and finds solutions.
- Collaborative: Approaches work with a team player mindset. Knowledgeable in your field while also humble to always learn something new and be open to new information.
- Emotional Intelligence: Exudes a high degree of self-awareness, embodies superb active listening skills, and can handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. Always exercises good judgment while under pressure.
- Communicator: Speaks and writes clearly and articulately and likes to build strong relationships across the organization. Shows appreciation for others’ views and input.
- Resourceful: Ability to think creatively to source information.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field
- At least two years of related work experience or any equivalent combination of training and experience in accounting, finance, or auditing that provides the necessary background for this position.
- In-depth knowledge of contract law, procurement techniques, principles of negotiations, research market analysis techniques, and contract development /administration.