Purchasing Administrator Consultant

Purchasing Administrator Consultant | Location: Hybrid, Springfield, MA | Contract | Hourly Pay Range $28-$35

This Purchasing Administrator Consultant role supports a fast-paced purchasing function in a hybrid work model. You’ll help drive accurate, timely processing across the purchasing lifecycle—working through multi-level approvals and maintaining high confidentiality while meeting tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Process purchase requisitions and purchase orders while ensuring compliance with purchasing guidelines, company policies, procedures, and strategic objectives
• Independently manage RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs to support internal business owners’ project needs
• Source new product streams, identify and onboard new vendors, and contribute to innovative purchasing strategies
• Manage purchasing and contract-related data to support reporting, auditability, and operational accuracy
• Develop and standardize purchasing methodologies and best practices
• Prioritize and plan work independently to meet peak-cycle deadlines with a high degree of accuracy
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field
• 7 years of purchasing experience (including managing RFPs/RFQs/RFIs, processing requisitions and purchase orders, managing vendor relationships, and driving cost reduction/consolidation)
• Hands-on experience across the full purchasing cycle (manual and/or automated processes)
• Strong command of purchasing management fundamentals
• Advanced computer skills (Adobe Pro, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Word)
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; able to adapt to different personalities
• Experience working with internal and external customers/vendors
• Ability to multitask with urgency in a fast-paced environment while meeting deadlines and maintaining high attention to detail and confidentiality
• Willingness to work additional hours during peak operating cycles
• Hybrid/remote consultants must supply their own equipment (equipment is only provided for 100% onsite consultants)
• Must be able to join Microsoft Teams conference calls using a computer (mobile/phone dial-in not permitted)
• Must be a W-2 employee of the submitting firm (corp-to-corp not permitted)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• None explicitly stated in the source description
  
  

About Delphi-US - Peacemakers In The Talent War

Delphi-US is a national IT Services firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and positions our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. Delphi's core technical focus includes Data Intelligence Engineering & Analytics, AI/ML Operational Excellence, DevOps & Cloud Computing, Health IT & Life Sciences, and Energy Management/Power Systems; serving domains from sensitive national energy sectors to critical financial services, biomed, life sciences & pharma, major government & municipal institutions, and much of the USA's Fortune 500 corporations. Delphi Associates are deployed on critical IT Projects where their consultative business acumen, comprehensive technical expertise, and committed service mission drives our client's success. Our proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process results in higher qualified project teams, custom curated for our client's specific technical & functional goals. We are supremely experienced, friendly, professional, and ready to advocate on your behalf. Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations, a track record of project success and we deliver lasting results.

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