Purchasing Specialist - Technology Services

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Job Description/Responsibilities

The Purchasing Specialist for Managed Information Technology products and services. This position is critical to timely recognition of revenue, cost management, and overall customer satisfaction. This role will be the lead buyer in manage IT products and services to offer support across the country. Will work directly with the VP of Purchasing. Executes the relevant category strategies across the managed portfolio by leading the sourcing process, negotiating with approved suppliers. Involved in the MITS buyers training of new hires.

Purchasing Specialist will provide value to VET through improving cost of goods throughout the Purchasing/ Inventory/ Logistics process while upholding VET ethics and culture. At VET, our culture is equally important to the work we do. How we behave and how we go about doing the work will be an important part to the job role.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Drive resolution on performance issues, drive process improvements to mitigate and reduce fulfillment risks.
• Provide input on value-adding opportunities from all areas of the supply chain including Forecasting, Supplier Quality, Source Fulfillment, and Sourcing Processes.
• Contribute with continuous improvements in the development of the procurement function towards best practices.
• Ensure Data accuracy and integrity through the entire procurement cycle
• Drive efficiencies and cost savings to improve timely recognition of revenue, cost management, and overall customer satisfaction
• Evaluate vendor performance based on fulfillment rate and verify vendor's prices are aligned with the established agreements.
• Mitigate costs and fulfillment risks to the supply chain
• Compile data from a variety of sources offered through alerts and reports for tracking and reporting key benchmarks
• Will follow through to completion on special projects and/or other duties as assigned
  
  

Required Skills/Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in Strategic Sourcing role with focus on IT procurement in Cloud and Infrastructure
• Computer literacy. Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, Word, etc.).
• Knowledge of purchasing policies, processes, and procedures.
• Knowledge of sourcing IT Suppliers
• Knowledge and ability to negotiate best vendor terms and pricing with assistance with the purchasing manager
• Knowledge and clear understanding of vendor rebate programs
• Performed function with little supervision in a timely manner with acceptable quality.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, and able to multi-task. Ability to learn new software/processes
• Product knowledge
• Cloud services Primarily in Microsoft (Azure and M365)
• Computer Hardware and Storage
• Routers, Switches and Firewalls
• Security
• VOIP
• Knowledge and understanding of technology procurement principles
• Ability to understand interpret Statements of Work and Hardware/ Software quotes to interpret purchase and ensure compliance with agreements
  
  

At Visual Edge IT, We Are Proud To Provide

Work-Life Balance

Visual Edge IT promotes a healthy work-life balance for employees by offering competitive pay, PTO, and nine paid holidays per year. We are always reviewing and finding new ways to support our employees’ unique needs.

Career Path

We encourage growth from within Visual Edge IT. We seek outside candidates who are driven that we can nurture along a career path and we hire/promote internally. We also have opportunities to develop talent through training programs.

Insurance Benefits

We offer multiple plans to choose from to fit your individual needs. We offer medical, HSA, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, voluntary life insurance, employee assistance program, and wellness programs. We provide all of our employees a $50k life insurance policy at no cost to our team members.

401(k)

Visual Edge gives employees access to a 401k program and offers an employer match benefit. Visual Edge IT will match 100% of an employee’s contribution up to the first 3% and will provide an additional 50% match on the next 2% of the employee contribution.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.