Procurement Manager

**MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE**
Identify, research, and evaluate suppliers that meet the organization's standards of price, quality, timing, and reliability of supply.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Recognize and evaluate sales, promotional campaigns, and other opportunities to secure reduced prices.
- Assess supplier's products to ensure they that they comply with specifications and meet the organization's quality standards.
- Analyze and evaluate supplier bids, tenders, proposals, or quotations.
- Negotiate prices and delivery conditions.
- Commit to purchases (within established limits of authority) with terms that are in the organization's best interest.
- Interpret inventory requests, production schedules, purchase requisitions, orders, and other documents to coordinate purchasing activities with the organization's current and anticipated demand for goods and materials.
- Monitor the quality and timeliness of materials and goods supplied.
- Follow-up the status of purchase orders with vendors to ensure timely delivery.
- Communicate status of orders with internal customers.