The College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin

Director, Procurement and Warehousing

The College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Austin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Provide strategic and operational oversight to both the BFS Procurement and Warehousing Teams.
  • Ensure timely and professional procurement, material distribution, and material storage, in support of customer operational missions.
  • Provide effective staff management through timely recruitment, selection, orientation, training, motivation, coaching, evaluation, and redirection.
  • Promote professional development of staff.
  • Measure and evaluate performance of division.
  • Develop and maintain electronic applications, databases, queries and financial reports to facilitate and record the purchasing, maintenance, and issuance or delivery of material supplies.
  • Serve as purchasing representative on behalf of BFS customer departments in collaboration with centralized university departments.
  • Liaise with Central Procurement and the Business Contracts Office to ensure customer procurement needs are met.
  • Oversee bid solicitation and evaluation, preparation of purchase requisitions and orders, management of regular cycle counting activities, and departmental records maintenance and retention.
  • Oversee the receipt, storage, security, and issuance of materials.
  • Final approve purchasing transactions and management of two million dollars in physical inventory.
  • Advise leadership within BFS customer units on warehousing and procurement practices, policies, and issues.
  • Ensure stakeholders are well informed of all significant activities impacting the division and of significant planned activities well in advance of execution.
  • Oversee consistent application of university policies and procedures on procurement matters.
  • Advise leadership and management staff on changes to procurement policies/procedures.

Requirements

  • Bachelors degree in business or related field
  • A combination of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in procurement, sourcing, distribution management, storage, issuance of, and/or accounting for property and material in a central distribution/purchasing organization.
  • Five (5) years supervising a staff of four (4) or more employees in a procurement function or an equivalent area of complexity.
  • Experience managing an inventory containing thousands of unique items.
  • Contract creation, negotiation, and administration experience.
  • Experience gathering, understanding, and communicating complex specifications.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in gathering, analyzing, and presenting data using personal computer and related software including Microsoft products Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
procurementsourcingdistribution managementinventory managementcontract creationcontract negotiationcontract administrationdata analysisfinancial reportingmaterial storage
Soft skills
staff managementcoachingevaluationcommunicationleadershipmotivationprofessional developmentperformance measurementcollaborationproblem-solving