Buyer - Corporate Services

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Job Summary

We are seeking a Buyer with Corporate Services experience in Travel, Fleet, corporate credit card and contingent labor to join our team here in Wilmington, DE. This is an onsite position with 2 days of remote work each week. Candidates should live within a commutable distance to the corporate site. Relocation is not available for this role.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Requires conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and developing knowledge of related job disciplines.

• Has developed a detailed understanding of key business drivers through multiple years of experience.

• May supervise or act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

• Has the ability to understand and influence.

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team.

• Begins to work independently with minimal to moderate guidance.

• Analyzes potential solutions to problems (with or without vague/unstructured aspects) using experience, judgment and precedents.

• Work requires judgment and consideration of future implications beyond the immediate problem.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor degree and at least 5 years of experience in procurement, retail, catalog, finance and/or banking experience OR High School/GED and at least 10 years of experience in procurement, retail, catalog, finance and/or banking experience

• Experience in business through procurement lifecycles and best procurement practices.

• Experience leading negotiations and developing/executing on procurement strategies.

• Experience influencing internal and external resources to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and established timelines.

• Strong background in IT procurement and vendor negotiations.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience managing people, projects and/or cross functional teams.

• At least 5 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.

• At least 5 years of Purchasing and corporate services, travel and corporate card are not required but bonus if managed.

• cross-functional team experience and support

• Experience managing change across multiple stakeholder groups.

• Strong communication, organizational, and leadership

Preferred:

• At least 5 years of experience in negotiating deals.

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).

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