Director, Procurement and Warehousing, Business and Financial Services

Provide strategic and operational oversight to both the BFS Procurement and Warehousing Teams. Ensure timely and professional procurement, material distribution, and material storage, in support of customer operational missions.Provide effective staff management through timely recruitment, selection, orientation, training, motivation, coaching, evaluation, and redirection. Promote professional development of staff.Measure and evaluate performance of division. Develop and maintain electronic applications, databases, queries and financial reports to facilitate and record the purchasing, maintenance, and issuance or delivery of material supplies.Serve as purchasing representative on behalf of BFS customer departments in collaboration with centralized university departments. Liaise with Central Procurement and the Business Contracts Office to ensure customer procurement needs are met.Oversee bid solicitation and evaluation, preparation of purchase requisitions and orders, management of regular cycle counting activities, and departmental records maintenance and retention. Oversee the receipt, storage, security, and issuance of materials. Final approve purchasing transactions and management of two million dollars in physical inventory. Advise leadership within BFS customer units on warehousing and procurement practices, policies, and issues. Ensure stakeholders are well informed of all significant activities impacting the division and of significant planned activities well in advance of execution. Oversee consistent application of university policies and procedures on procurement matters. Advise leadership and management staff on changes to procurement policies/procedures.