Purchasing Manager. Work location: Overland Park, KS. Responsible for building business sales services, strategies and digital practices across three pillars: Procurement as a Service, Lease Abstraction Services and Resource Augmentation Services. Create and maintain good relationships with vendors and suppliers. Review and analyze supply and price options. Handling critical escalations from clients and vendors. Improve supplier on-time delivery performance. Ensure products and supplies are high quality. Create effective global programs including service pillar support, working cross functionally with R$2 teams to drive communication with business leadership and managing financials from on-going relationships. Support procurement as a service through operational functions and through strategic procurement activities including executional aspects of the procurement revenue generation process, including market data gathering and entry, support throughout a proposal and contract stage and business planning processes, contract management and administration, updating and maintenance of documents in systems, generating various tracking reports and support in periodic audit activities. Provide solutions across end to end procurement including strategic planning and operating model, sourcing and category strategies, supplier relationship management. Utilize approved RFP templates, complete all administrative tasks associated with creating the draft RFP package including: contacting potential suppliers to ascertain interest in participating in the sourcing process, ensuring all suppliers are registered in appropriate sourcing systems and are trained in its use, drafting the cover letter, instructions, list of service and product requirements, informing internal clients of RFP status. Support RFI/RFQ/RFP processes in the source to contract lifecycle for multiple categories. Issue and manage P2P process: requisition, purchase orders, invoicing, accounts payable. Streamline work processes and decrease turnaround times using e-procurement tools, technology and other ERP system for procurement operations. Create and deploy training, content/revenue generation messaging, processes, practices, forms, and tools to support the sales force. 40 hrs/wk. Must have Bachelor’s Degree (3 or 4 year U.S. or foreign degree) in Supply Chain Management, Statistics, or a related field, and two (2) years of experience in the proffered position, or as a Specialist/Associate (Business Operations), or related occupation. Must have 2 years experience creating and maintaining good relationships with vendors and suppliers; Reviewing and analyzing supply and price options; Handling critical escalations from clients and vendors; Improving supplier on-time delivery performance; Ensuring products and supplies are high quality. Telecommuting permitted.