Responsibilities

Noblis is seeking to hire a Purchasing Specialist in San Diego, CA

Manage vendors, suppliers, and agents, obtaining quotes, ensuring deliveries, and resolving external issues. Present competitive data and profitability recommendations to senior management to develop merchandising plans. Track, analyze, and improve sales and margins to achieve business objectives. Conduct competitor and consumer research to identify trends, consumer needs, and growth opportunities. Prepare and process purchase orders. Purchase materials, supplies and services. Evaluates bids, selects and recommends suppliers and negotiates price, delivery, quality and service. Follows up on all awards until completion of order. Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over shipments, cancellations and changes.

Solve a variety of structured problems by applying professional standards and Noblis concepts and methodologies. Have knowledge of a particular area and a general awareness of other areas. Working independently with general instruction, apply intermediate skills to deliver high quality work products and services to support projects. Responsible for planning and managing project deliverables and engaging in open-minded interactions with clients and coworkers to deliver results. Responsible for expanding your capabilities in current work and leveraging opportunities to grow through interactions across the organization. Ensure appropriate documentation is provided to logistics and warehouse organization so that proper receipt is recorded. Review and approve supplier payment as needed. Must also have experience working with multiple contracting formats, including firm fixed price, cost reimbursable, and cost plus contracts. Must also possess knowledge pertaining to special payment provisions such as progress or performance-based payments. Applicant must understand the proposal process, pricing instructions, terms and conditions, and determine the adequacy of supplier proposals received.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Frequent use and general knowledge of industry practices, techniques, and standards. General application of concepts and principles. Demonstrates the skill and ability perform moderately complex professional tasks.
• Develop solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Responsible for source selection from contract proposal to execution phases
• Develop subcontract specifications, work statements, and terms and conditions for the procurement of specialized materials, equipment, and/or services
• Prepare bid packages, conduct competitions for new and best value sources, analyze and evaluate proposals, negotiate subcontract provisions, select or recommend subcontractors, write award justifications and administer awards
• Manage performance of subcontracts, ensuring compliance with all public law requirements as well as company policies and procedures
• Employ sound business practices and assess supplier performance as part of follow up activities
• Ability to interface directly with senior leadership and internal product team leads effectively
• Evaluate and monitor supplier quality and reliability, as well as supplier ability to support required delivery schedules in conjunction with quality organization
• Identify strategies and opportunities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and manage risk through strategic and targeted negotiations
• Manage and develop strategic vendors
• Utilize process tools such as Lean Six Sigma with vendors to drive quality efficiency, and continuous improvement

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 3 years of professional experience in supply chain management, business and financial planning, contracts administration, project management, logistics, or other related fields; OR, High School and 9 years of experience. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong strategic, innovative, and critical thinking skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Ability to obtain and maintain Secret clearance

Desired Qualifications

• Demonstrated strong leadership skills as well as the ability to multi-task in a challenging environment
• Possess strong time management and organization skills; Ability to keep multiple priorities moving forward
• CMPro, CostPoint, and/or Cobblestone systems experience
• Experience with Power BI Report Server
• Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) accredited by the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), or Certified Professional in Supply chain Management (CPSM) accredited by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM)

Overview

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us

Why work at a Noblis company?

Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerous workplace awards. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.

Salary Range Explanation

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.

Salary at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, and clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is provided within the posting and are based on full time status. Part time staff receive a prorated salary based on regularly scheduled hours. The estimated minimum and maximum displayed represents the broadest range for this position (inclusive of high geographic and high clearance requirements), and is just one component of Noblis’ total compensation package for employees.

Posted Salary Range

Equal Employment Opportunity

Noblis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race (as well as because of or on the basis of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

Noblis is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Noblis will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact employee-relations@noblis.org.