Procurement specialist/ Purchasing assistant

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<div class="isg-job-description“>Title: Procurement specialist/ Purchasing assistant  
Location: Trenton, NJ 08625
Duration: 12+ Months’
Pay Rate:  $24.24/Hr. without benefits
Job Description:

• Support staff needed to assist Procurement Bureau/General Services Unite with administrative tasks while the Division is short-staffed.
• Coordinates and schedules meetings.
• Responds to Vendor and Agency emails and telephone calls, as requested.
• Provides complex, direct, technical assistance to professional buying staff engaged in completing sophisticated procurements, special analytical projects, or investigations.
• Compiles documentation for and creates contract award files, which may include scanning hard copy files.
• Prepares correspondence to Vendors for contract extensions or contract maintenance.
• Prepares correspondence to Vendors for various forms required as part of a Contract Award.
• Reviews and verifies that required forms have been submitted as part of bid proposals.
• Maintains a list of key contract expiration dates for buying staff and supervisors.
• Assists in tabulating complex bid proposals from multiple vendors.
• Collects background information for and assists in preparing simple commodity specifications.
• Collects accurate purchasing production data as a basis for periodic management reports.
• As required, schedules and participates in bidders’ conferences.
• Prepares procurement related correspondence and reports.
• Coordinates the maintenance of essential contract and bid records and files.
• Organizes contract award files for archiving.
• Maintains physical space and organization of the unit.
• Maintains, updates, and organizes virtual/shared files.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite.
• The ability to communicate effectively
• Excellent computer, organizational, reading and writing skills;

About our Company: –
22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies’ delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.
Recognized among “Best Company to Work For” by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.
“22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer” and “US Citizens & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.”
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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