Procurement Agent Senior / Services Procurement Agent Senior #2301-208910-01

The City of Charlotte is the largest municipality in North Carolina and the 17th largest city in the United States, with a total population of more than 872,498 citizens. A major commerce center, Charlotte hosts several of the nation’s largest banks and technology companies.

Also known as the Queen City, Charlotte is home to the Carolina Panthers, the Charlotte Hornets and the NASCAR Hall of Fame. We work hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play. Join us in helping to keep our City thriving, ensuring upward mobility and advancement in the workplace.

• Facilitates procurement and contracting activities from intake to execution for all city departments as requested and at the citywide level as determined necessary.
• Provides consultation on activities that impact procurement processes to include contracting decisions, project planning, requirements development, and scope development.
• Performs all procurement activities with the highest level of integrity utilizing statutory guidelines, policies, procedures, and best business practices.
• Develops solicitation documents and facilitates informal and formal solicitation processes as required.
• Interfaces at all organizational levels to accomplish City Procurement and contracting objectives with the goal of optimizing procurement challenges, implementing process improvements, initiating cost savings measures, and securing best value products, solutions, and relationships.
• Performs in-depth research, fact finding, informal requests for information and other due diligence as may be required to support project requirements and contracting strategies
• Coordinates and facilitates all project meetings, helps prepare evaluation criteria and processes, advises project teams on acceptable processes, and coordinates other formalized process activities required to complete a project.
• Develops and negotiates all contractual documents as may be required.
• Identifies potential risks and makes recommendations for risk mitigation in collaboration with City Legal, Risk Management, Internal Audit, and stakeholders.
• Facilitates and supports dispute resolutions and vendor protests, working to ensure a strong contractually guided professional business relationship with all vendors.
• Acts as a liaison between the city and vendors to ensure best value contracts to achieve win/win relationships.
• Performs secondary contract administration, monitoring, and reporting as required.
• Prepares all necessary documents for requesting City Council approval for contract award, attends Council meetings for or with requesting departments as official procurement representative 
• Responsible for proactively forecasting and managing all project assignments and keeping systems updated related project tracking.
• Collaborates with the City’s Charlotte Business INClusion Program to ensure participation and inclusion of MWBE’s in contracting opportunities.

• Requires in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with the solicitation and procurement of services, including contract drafting, negotiation, execution, and management.
• Requires working knowledge of local, state, federal, and cooperative procurement exemption and contracting methodologies.
• Highly motivated and teachable professional able to function with minimal supervision in partnership with all levels of the organization.

• Bachelor’s Degree and three to five years of related experience.
• Candidates with previous purchasing experience with a government entity and/or services specific purchasing experience are highly desired.
• Professional certification (i.e. C.C.M., CLGPO, C.P.M, CPPO, and CPPB) is strongly desired.

• Associate’s Degree and five years of related experience or Bachelor’s Degree and three years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience that provides the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the essential job duties.

• $62,952 - $78,690 Commensurate with experience

The City’s Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a credit history check, sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.

Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidate’s written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report, motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.

Please note that all job offers are contingent upon an applicant successfully passing a new hire background check, drug screening, and proof of COVID-19 vaccination. I an applicant does not pass the background screening for vaccination requirement, the offer will be rescinded.

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