Procurement Specialist
Listed on 2026-01-27
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Administrative/Clerical
Business Administration -
Finance & Banking
Business Administration
Overview
Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham
Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.
Hiring Range: $46,629 - $61,017.84
Work Day/
Hours:
Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Join one of the highest fiscally rated entities in the country. The City of Durham’s Finance Department promotes sound management and stewardship of taxpayer dollars by helping the City Council, City Manager and City departments manage their financial resources and leading risk management administration and training. If sound fiscal management is what you’re about, join our team!
This position is devoted to providing inventory functions and professional procurement and contract administration services to the City. Performs more advanced transaction processing involving basic research, verification, reconciliation and mathematical calculations, as well as respond to internal and external customer questions and inquiries by communicating standard policies and procedures. There is an established operational routine to be followed and decisions are limited primarily to choosing how quickly the work is performed and the sequence in which the work is performed to meet established standards and deadlines.
Responsible for processing credit card transactions; generating reports; generating purchase orders and requisitions; entering data; reviewing data for accuracy; preparing batch payments; maintaining filing and records; and compiling information.
Responsibilities- Providing clerical and administrative support for the purchasing division.
- Review and process new vendor accounts in MUNIS.
- Generating purchase orders and requisitions.
- Reviews Request for Proposals (RFP) and Request for Qualifications (RFQ) by reviewing the proposals for alignment with the proposal/qualification document before posting to City of Durham Bid page.
- Administers assigned procurement programs ( ex. Amazon Business, Office Depot, etc.)
- Provide coverage for mailroom
- High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED, HiSET, TASC)
- Two years of experience in purchasing or procurement (such as: order processing, financial transactions and paperwork, and verifying transactions for accuracy).
- Intermediate experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software/systems
- Advanced Excel Skills desirable
- Advanced MS Office Skills desirable
- Experience with MUNIS (ERP) system
- Prior Governmental procurement/purchasing experience
- Experience with performing Cost Analysis
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