
Procurement Analyst
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The Procurement Analyst supports purchasing operations by managing a group email inbox, responding to customer and supplier questions, and processing orders, bids, and quotes. The role also handles contract administration and UT Market support, analyzes spending by commodity, and tracks and reports purchasing savings at local and campus-wide levels. Additional work includes supporting buyer training and assisting teammates as needed.
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Full job description
include managing a group mailbox, providing excellent customer service, processing orders, bids, and quotes.ResponsibilitiesCustomer Service: Utilize written and verbal communication skills to address routine CSU questions and/or address issues. Effectively communicate the many policies and procedures to the CSUs and suppliers, by both written and verbal communicationGroup Email Inbox: Review incoming order documents, cross check with order queue and solicit missing items as needed. Organize and maintain email files. Process Invitation To Bids (ITBs) and also Quote Requests for awards against existing contractsOrder Processing: Process routine purchases (i.e. informal bids, awards on existing contracts, exclusive acquisition justifications) within their delegation. Process complex purchases (i.e. informal bids, awards on existing contracts, exclusive acquisition justifications). Additionally, process orders utilizing federal funds, change orders, foreign purchases, and purchases valued up to 1 million dollars.Spend analysis by commodity, contract administration and support for UT Market.Tracking savings on purchases and reporting both at the local and campus wide level. Creating spreadsheets that will be used to pull savings data from and use that information to help other CSU's report their own savings.Other Duties/Skills: Projects and goals assigned by management, staff meetings, vendor meetings, attend training, assist with buyer training, and respond to general questions. Assist with other team members' duties when needed due to increased workload, staff vacations, and/or position vacancies. Uses initiative and resourcefulness beyond typical duties.
How this job compares
Set against the 807 open Purchasing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–95K/yr273 salary ranges
- US median$24–30/hr117 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 76 open Purchasing jobs in Texas and 807 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)8 open
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice - SET4 open
- TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION3 open
- Experience
- Purchasing postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (542 postings).
- Education
- 202 of the 807 open Purchasing jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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