FACILITIES PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST (PSA/OPT 1)

Job Requisition ID: 49700 
Closing Date: 09/24/2025
​Agency: Department of Central Management Services
Class Title: PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR - 37015 
Skill Option: General Administration/Business Marketing/Labor/Personnel 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary $8,281/monthly; Full Range $8,281- $12,223/monthly
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Sangamon
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC063

 

This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

 

All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal.

Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.

 

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POSITION SUMMARY

The Department of Central Management Services’ Bureau of Strategic Sourcing (BOSS) is seeking to hire a Public Service Administrator to serve as the State of Illinois Facilities Procurement Specialist.  This professional level position has the ability to positively affect the daily work conducted by thousands of service providers around the State of Illinois by ensuring necessary contracts that meet the needs of our services providers are available. The ideal candidate will be a detail oriented leader who can help transform the procurement processes to become more efficient, pro-active and transparent while expanding the Facilities portfolio contract catalog made available to the State of Illinois. We invite all qualified candidates!

POSITION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Under administrative direction, organizes, plans, executes, controls and evaluates all aspects of the bid specification development process and bid solicitation process for purchases of highly complex center-lead contracts and implements policies for state agencies for the total management of these processes.

• Independently leads most services contract negotiations with vendors and assists management with the negotiation of the most monetarily substantial contracts.

• Implements, interprets, and supports strategic sourcing initiatives for the user agencies utilizing best business practices, based on items such as long-term and short-term considerations, quality, suitability, total cost of ownership, return on investment, market trends, fact-based and logically perceived tradeoffs, supply markets, statistics, conformity to standards, charters and governance models conducts research on these practices to develop cost effective business cases for client agencies.

• Serves as expert authority and provides guidance to user agencies on sourcing strategies and to vendors on issues associated with contracts.

• Conducts ongoing analysis and research of programmatically specific methods of securing cost-effec