Sr Buyer - The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA - EXPIRED
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Company: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
The Senior Buyer is an advanced journey level position recognized as a technical specialist using initiative and resourcefulness to independently carrying out complex purchasing assignments. As a Senior Buyer, you will coordinate, develop and issue specifications and solicitations (i.e. Requests for Bids, Requests for Proposals). In this role you will act as the lead in negotiating supplier contracts, which may include coordinating internal customer activities, analyzing vendor performance and maintaining liaison relationships. The Senior Buyer also conducts individual studies relating to market conditions trends and purchasing methods. This includes strategically working with clients and the supply community to ensure deliverables are timely and aligned with department goals and objectives.
Under the direction of higher-level procurement staff and management, you will provide training to non-procurement staff on various purchasing techniques and processes and travel to Metropolitan facilities and various other sites to support and promote procurement objectives.
You will make decisions regarding interpreting each procurement assignment, planning of work, and determination of the best methods and techniques to be used. Your additional duties will include analyzing a variety of unusual conditions, problems, or questions, as well as how your work product or service may affect activities or the operation of other organizations.
Required Knowledge: Principles and practices of contract negotiations; public purchasing policies, procedures and applicable laws including prevailing wage requirements; competitive bidding and best value procurement; contract administration; utilization of program presentation tools and the development and application of trend analysis; current office technology and equipment.
This job announcement has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this classification / job.
To view the full job description click here: Senior Buyer
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field and six years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field and four years of relevant experience; or three years in a MWD Buyer II classification.
Relevant Experience is defined as: Journey level knowledge and experience working with contracts and negotiations; demonstrated experience working with public contracting requests. Experience facilitating the procurement process with emphasis on goods, materials and general services. Interaction with customers and maintenance of client engagement. Experience preparing and administering requests for proposals, competitive bid solicitations.
CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
License(s): Valid California Class C Driver’s License or equivalent (required at time of application) that allows you to drive during your employment.
JOB-RELATED SELECTION CRITERIA
15% Technical knowledge/skills
10% Job Preparation (education, experience, and training relevant to the position)
10% Analytical Skills
5% Project Management
10% Customer Service
5% Decision Making
5% Negotiation Skills
5% Problem Solving
5% Assessing Risk/Liability
10% Interpersonal Skills
10% Oral Communication
10% Written Communication
100% Total
CLOSING
Benefits:
• Competitive compensation
• Excellent medical, dental, life, vision plans.
• Deferred compensation in the form of a 401(k) plan (with matching contribution) and a 457 plan.
• Retirement benefits under the California Public Employees' Retirement System
• Tuition reimbursement
• Training and advancement opportunities
• Excellent working environment
• Public transportation reimbursements and van pools
• Hub of public transportation: rail, subway, buses, and taxis
• On-site fitness center
For more information on MWD benefits, please use the following link: Benefits Regular Full Time Employee
ABOUT MWD
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a consortium of 26 cities and water districts that provides drinking water to nearly 19 million people in Southern California. Metropolitan’s mission is to provide its service area with adequate and reliable supplies of high quality water to meet current and future needs in an environmentally and economically responsible way. Metropolitan’s facilities include the 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct, five water treatment plants with a combined capacity of 2.3 billion gallons per day, nine surface water reservoirs, 800 miles of pipeline, and 16 hydroelectric power plants.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Qualified individuals with disabilities, who need a reasonable accommodation during the application or selection process, please call (213) 217-7738 or email: [email protected].
MWD is a Federal and State EO employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.
Application Filing Period: Closes at 4:30 pm PST on the date stated in the job announcement. However it may close prior to the filing end date if sufficient applications have been received. If sufficient applications have not been received, then the filing period end date may be extended.
Sponsorship: Applicants for employment with The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B or other employment-based immigration case).
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