About the Role

As a part of the Finance Department, We are seeking a detail-oriented, proactive, and strategic Buyer to join our Procurement team. The Buyer will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing materials, equipment, and services essential to the development and commercialization of our diagnostic products. This role is critical to ensuring uninterrupted supply to our R&D, clinical, and operations teams.

What You’ll Do

➔ Purchase order placement activities: including but not limited to processing of daily purchase transactions through a requisition review primarily for appropriate classifications, price verifications, accuracy of vendor data and completeness of executed contracts to support the purchase order, in a timely manner with a processing turnaround time of 24-48 hours after requisition approval.

➔ Prioritize, process, and monitor purchase requisition queue. Review purchase requisitions for proper documentation and authorization. Actively resolve problems with incorrect requisitions. Assist employees with purchasing/contract procure-to-pay process and facilitate ongoing training.

➔ Documentation of savings, back order-lead time follow up - communication, goods receipt, returns, invoice payment (P2P lifecycle). Use and understanding of the department’s standard communication, templates, and procedures.

➔ Issue purchase orders and instructions to suppliers. Provide assistance to resolve order-related issues, which involves working with all departments within the Company as well as outside vendors.

➔ Coordinate with internal departments to make sure that billable work has the appropriate executed contract in place.

➔ Support the maintenance and administration of the employee expense reimbursement system by reviewing and approving expense reports, managing user access, and providing training to new users

➔ Assist with various accounting operations, including the preparation of journal entries and uploading entries to NetSuite, and support the preparation of various vendor accruals

➔ Coordinate with external auditors and provide the required audit support

➔ Assist with month-end close activities and other ad hoc projects

What You’ll Have Accomplished 12 Months From Now

➔ Maintained the contract workflow between departments, ensuring that contracts are reviewed internally (Procurement and/or Legal), or by outside counsel, and executed in a timely manner in connection with the purchase requisition.

➔ Overseen maintenance of open purchase requisitions and purchase orders and maintained the master files for onboarding and changes to vendors.

➔ Supported the team and management in introducing/implementing best practices in contract administration by working with appropriate stakeholders (Legal, Clinical Laboratory, RUO Development, etc.) to establish effective processes and controls.

➔ Played an active role in implementing frameworks for contract compliance, routing for completeness, communication to suppliers, uploading and tracking, and contributed to process improvements, updating and/or revisiting processes as needed.

Required:

➔ Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.

➔ Strong background in Purchasing, preferably in biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, or a related industry.

➔ Minimum of 4 years of procurement experience, preferably in a SOX and FDA-regulated environment.

➔ Must have highly-effective interpersonal skills (ability to develop, foster and maintain positive working relations). Ability to work in a team environment.

➔ Demonstrated understanding of Accounting.

➔ Must be proactive, results oriented, and have strong attention to detail, along with an ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Preferred:

➔ Experience with contract management.

➔ Computer proficiency in MS Office, experience with ERP’s and CLM’s, or related purchasing system

➔ Experience in ERP system administration, testing, design, development, and implementation is a plus

➔ Demonstrated critical thinking skills – ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or other forms; and to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, and approaches to problems

➔ Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

➔ Good business, planning and organizational skills. Detail oriented

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