Senior Buyer-Contract Analyst

This position offers a unique challenge!
Why? Because our buyers are customer-driven.
What does that mean? This role integrates the responsibilities of a Senior Buyer with those of customer service, ensuring seamless procurement operations while maintaining high levels of end user satisfaction. A balance of technical procurement skills and customer-focused service abilities is ideal.
This combination role involves not only sourcing and purchasing, goods, and services, negotiating with suppliers, and managing vendor relationships, but additionally, this position requires handling inquiries, resolving issues, and ensuring that customer needs are met promptly and efficiently.
You will juggle many tasks in this position, but the main goal is that our customers have an easy, efficient, and timely experience with our team. We promise it will be as fulfilling for you, and we back it up with our amazing benefits and employee experience!

Responsible for contract management, negotiation, and preparing and managing complex purchase orders for goods and services for the organization from the procurement phase to final payment.

If you have at least 4 years of purchasing or buying experience required and a high school diploma/GED, check out our posting and see if it's a good fit for you!

Minimum Education and/or Training:

• High School Diploma/GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in business administration or economics preferred

Minimum Experience:

• Four (4) years purchasing experience required, preferably in health care.
• Contract processing and review experience preferred.

Job Responsibilities:

• Commits hospital funds up to authorized limits established by the institution. Ensures that proper approvals are present on capital equipment requisitions and service agreements (up to dollar thresholds). Ensures that additional reviews as required by institutional policies have been conducted. Reviews for sole source documentation, competitive bids and contract applicability, as appropriate, before placing the order. Submits all capital equipment requirements to ECRI for price validation.
• Maintains a detailed knowledge of what constitutes a contract, the different types of contracts and the ability to critically analyze agreements, to determine if policy triggers are present and Legal review required and maintains a complete knowledge of the St Jude contract policy and the ability to access risk and potential liability for the institution’s needs.
• Facilitates and participates in the CLM system to manage, analyze and process contract data for the Institution, while adhering to St Jude’s policies and guidelines.
• Reconciles receiving and AP discrepancies by coordinating with Accounts Payable, Warehouse staff, customers, vendors as appropriate.
• Performs lead functions, problem solving and training and shares knowledge and educates departmental, research and hospital staff to follow St Jude policies and procedures. Develops and maintains positive, professional relationships with all internal and external customers.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in–service meetings and workshops.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or directed to meet the goals and objectives of the department.

Compensation

In recognition of certain U.S. state and municipal pay transparency laws, St. Jude is including a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This is an estimate offered in good faith and a specific salary offer takes into account factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $54,080 - $94,640 per year for the role of Senior Buyer-Contract Analyst.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has a diverse, global patient population and workforce, built on the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our founder Danny Thomas envisioned a hospital that would treat children of the world—regardless of race, religion or a family’s ability to pay.