Buyer

Job description

Overview About the Role: Under direction, assists with the handling of campus-wide transactions to procure equipment, services and supplies needed for the efficient operation of the University Hospital. Responsibilities: What You’ll Do: Sourcing Responsibilities - Performs the following, as required: - Maintains a clear knowledge of sources of supply (e.g., Buying Groups, State Contracts, etc.), and utilizes these sources, as directed, for the purchase of the commodities and/or Services to which he/she is assigned. - Ensures that source contract information is up to date for the specific commodity/service areas to which he/she is assigned, maintains current information from catalogues, trade journals and other technical information, and makes this information available for use by requisitioning departments. - Solicits and analyzes quotations, changing sources of supply, when appropriate, for better price, delivery and quantity, making certain that determinations are consistent with statutory requirements and the policies and procedures established by the University Hospital. - Processes properly authorized requisitions after approval by the requisitioning departments Business Offic...